Xinhua Headlines: Sci-tech supports China's poverty alleviation

-- dedicated to lifting the last poor inhabitants out of poverty this year, China desires technology to play a major role during this technique.

-- Beijing, which is tasked with helping poverty alleviation in 90 county-level areas in eight provincial-level areas, has dispatched officials as well as technology to contribute to the battle in opposition t poverty.

-- In 2019, Beijing helped half a million people and 39 county-level areas in other areas shake off poverty.

by using Xinhua writers Xie Hao, Li Bin, Qiang Lijing and Cui Enhui

BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Ma Fenglian, a farmer in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, never imagined that she may sprout seeds on paper as an alternative of sowing them in the soil.

The girl now works in an agriculture workshop, installation via Beijing eco-friendly Valley constrained legal responsibility enterprise as a poverty discount application.

eco-friendly Valley's technology of "turning out to be vegetables on paper" has more desirable the lives of Ma, who now earns round 2,000 yuan (286 U.S. dollars) a month, and her fellow villagers.

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committed to lifting the closing bad inhabitants out of poverty this year, China wants expertise to play a tremendous function during this manner.

Laiyuan, deep within the Taihang Mountain, has lengthy been bothered by scarce arable land and negative transportation, and the local residents have been combating poverty for generations.

In areas like Laiyuan, germinating seeds on paper saves land supplies and labor charge whereas expanding farming efficiency, referred to Zhang Guiqin, chairwoman of Beijing green Valley limited legal responsibility enterprise.

"so long as there's appropriate air, moisture and temperatures, seeds can sprout. The paper containing biological vitamins and minerals simply acts as a germination medium," Zhang pointed out.

The sprouts cultivated from seeds will be additional processed into health items like sprout powder.

The venture of "starting to be vegetables on paper" has created a hundred and fifty jobs for poor villagers like Ma and one hundred forty million yuan of output price each and every yr, in keeping with Rui Yuanpeng, a Beijing professional who labored as deputy head of Laiyuan county govt from 2017 to early 2020 to assist with the poverty reduction efforts.

The city of Beijing, which is tasked with helping poverty alleviation in 90 county-stage areas in eight provincial-stage areas, has dispatched officials as well as technology to make a contribution to the combat towards poverty.

a lady selects eco-friendly beans from Chicheng County of Hebei Province at a grocery store in Beijing, capital of China, July 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)

Beijing's Fengtai District paired up with Laiyuan more than three years in the past to cooperate in poverty alleviation.

The number of impoverished residents in Laiyuan has been reduced from over forty,000 in 2016 to round 1,500 final 12 months, the county government facts confirmed.

Early this 12 months, the Hebei provincial govt introduced that Laiyuan had shaken off poverty together with a dozen of other poverty-hit counties in the province.

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To popularize new applied sciences in terrible areas, Beijing has developed technology demonstration bases and dispatched technical experts to aid native americans use superior applied sciences.

At a demonstration base in Chicheng County of Hebei, based with the support of Beijing's Haidian District, 54 forms of greens had been cultivated.

"youngsters the plant life appear general, they contain 22 superior agricultural applied sciences," talked about Zhang Guangming, deputy director of the agriculture and rural affairs bureau of Chicheng County.

The applied sciences, provided by way of the Beijing Municipal Science & expertise commission, had been popularized in 18 agricultural industrial parks within the county.

in the green apartment of Shengfeng agricultural park in Chicheng, which is full of lifestyles with a batch of lettuce planted with nutrient options and wise detection equipment installed excessive and low, Qiao Zhonghe, deputy typical manager of Shengfeng Agricultural know-how development Co., Ltd., was the use of an app on his cellular telephone to determine the temperature, humidity, light intensity and other key statistics within the eco-friendly house.

staff participants check the growth of lettuce flora at a greenhouse of Shengfeng Agricultural Park in Chicheng County of Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, July 21, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)

"prior to now, the statistics had to be obtained manually, which turned into time-ingesting and never correct," Qiao stated, adding that the launch of the clever agricultural device has vastly enhanced management efficiency and product pleasant.

At latest, all the 18 poverty-alleviation industrial parks together with Shengfeng had been lined via the information superhighway of issues administration platform supported via Beijing.

A workforce member assessments the increase of vegetation by way of the web of things management platform at Jingchi poverty-alleviation expertise demonstration base in Chicheng County of Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, July 21, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)

"New concepts and know-how from Beijing have improved the confidence of local villagers to win the fight in opposition t poverty," talked about Guo Xinyao, party chief of Chicheng County.

In 2019, the output from all agricultural parks in Chicheng reached 430 million yuan, benefiting 15,857 negative households.

the industrial park model is additionally utilized in Ulanqab, internal Mongolia.

In 2016, with the support of poverty relief cadres from Beijing, Beijing Kaida Hengye Agricultural technology Co., Ltd. deploy a department in Jingmeng cooperation industrial park of Ulanqab to aid increase the native potato trade.

The business has introduced lots of intelligent and automatic equipment to the potato creation line.

the first phase of a potato chip processing plant has been put into operation and the items had been offered foreign places, said Wang Guoping, deputy universal supervisor of internal Mongolia Shudu Kaida food Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Beijing company.

A personnel member works at a workshop of internal Mongolia Shudu Kaida food Co., Ltd. in Ulanqab, north China's inner Mongolia self sufficient vicinity, March 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)

The subsidiary purchased 70,000 tonnes of potatoes final 12 months, benefiting heaps of native terrible people.

throughout China, the government, universities, companies and technical body of workers have participated in know-how-pushed poverty reduction courses within the country's efforts to eradicate absolute poverty.

In 2019, Beijing helped half a million americans and 39 county-stage areas in other regions shake off poverty, in accordance with Beijing's poverty reduction cooperation and tips authorities. ■

(Xinhua journalists Gai Boming, Chen Xu, Li Fang, Li Dexin and Xiong Lin also contributed to the story; Video journalists: Ma Xiaodong, Li Dexin, Gai Boming and Xie Hao; Video editor: Luo Hui)