China will continue to increase its efforts at poverty reduction, despite pressure from the economic slowdown, the country's top poverty relief official said.
An impoverished village visited by China’s top political leader has received 300 million yuan ($48 million) in poverty relief funds just weeks after Xi Jinping visited the county vowing to help the poor.
The causes of poverty, rather than poverty itself, are the main challenges China faces as it developes.
The first sea-railway integrated shipping train, carrying tons of containers, set off from the Tianjin Xingang Port on Jan 19.
Twenty-four intercity railway lines running over 3,453 kilometers with an investment of roughly $97 billion will be built by 2050.
For the small, impoverished county of Fuping in north China's Hebei Province, President Xi Jinping's visit in 2012 was a fate changer.
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