Pairing assistance brings sea change to NW China mountains

STORY: Pairing assistance brings sea change to NW China mountains DATELINE: Aug. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:49 LOCATION: YINCHUAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of views in Minning Town 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XIE XINGCHANG, Former Party chief at Funing Village, Minning Town 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LIN CHUANXUAN, Deputy head of Xiji County, Ningxia (official from Fujian) 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): YU ZHENGBANG, Deputy director of Rural revitalization bureau, Haiyuan County STORYLINE: Thanks to the assistance from east China's coastal province, a once poverty-stricken town deep in the country's northwestern barren mountains has seen a sea change in people's livelihood over the past decades. Affluent Fujian Province was paired with landlocked Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 1996 under a pairing-up scheme between developed and underdeveloped areas. In 1997, Fujian and Ningxia agreed to build a new village near Ningxia's capital Yinchuan to relocate villagers in arid mountains to habitable are

A decade-long transformation of remote ethnic village

STORY: A decade-long transformation of remote ethnic village DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:34 LOCATION: CHANGSHA, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Shibadong village 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHI KANG, Local video maker 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LONG XIANLAN, Local beekeeper 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): YANG ZHENGBANG, Guesthouse owner STORYLINE: Shibadong is a mountainous village in central China's Hunan Province. Meaning "18 caves" in Chinese, the ethnic Miao village had a long history of poverty. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHI KANG, Local video maker "We didn't have a decent road in our village in the past. Cars couldn't reach our village until I was five years old. It was very inconvenient for us to get water as well. When I was little, we needed to get water from a well far away from our village no matter how bad the weather was as we couldn't cook without water." The situation started to change in 2013 when the concept of "targeted poverty alleviation" was introduced in Shib

Xinhua Headlines: A decade-long transformation of remote ethnic village

Xinhua Headlines: A decade-long transformation of remote ethnic village

(220722) -- CHANGSHA, July 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yang Zhengbang cleans a table in his homestay at Shibadong Village in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hunan Province, July 2, 2022. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)

Xinhua Headlines: A decade-long transformation of remote ethnic village

Xinhua Headlines: A decade-long transformation of remote ethnic village

(220722) -- CHANGSHA, July 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yang Zhengbang, who runs a rural homestay, poses for a group photo with his family members at Shibadong Village in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hunan Province, April 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)