Combo photo shows vehicles carrying resettled villager Hu Shanghai and neighbours on the way to their new homes at a poverty-alleviation resettlement community in Shangfeng Township of Xiushui County, east China's Jiangxi Province (top L, file photo taken in November 2017); the Hu family moving out of their old home located in a mountain village in Shangfeng Township (top R, file photo taken in November 2017); and an aerial view of the poverty-alleviation resettlement community where the Hu family lives in Shangfeng Township (bottom, photo taken on May 21, 2020 by Peng Zhaozhi). During China's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) period, the local government in Xiushui has built 141 resettlement communities for more than 10,000 impoverished rural residents, who used to struggle with life in the county's mountainous areas. The resettled rural residents now have access to better hospitals, schools and job opportunities. Many resettled residents are re-employed in new poverty-alleviation businesses such as tea plantations, silk factories and fruit orchards. All 121 such businesses, established with a poverty-relief fund worth 446 million yuan (about 63 million U.S. dollars), have helped 10,370 resettlement community inhabitants shake off poverty. (Xinhua)
