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Industries for poverty-relief purposes help increase people’s income in China’s Shanxi

Updated: Aug 24,2018 10:30 AM     Xinhua

Workers pick and sort mushrooms at an edible fungus company in Guangling county of Datong, North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 23, 2018. The company has offered job opportunities to over 800 impoverished residents. In recent years, local authorities of Guangling have taken an industry-based approach towards poverty relief. By now, industries for poverty-relief purposes have been set up in the county’s 43 impoverished villages, with over 2,000 target households achieving an average increase of 15,000 yuan ($2,194) in annual income.[Photo/Xinhua]

Workers make clothes at a clothing company in Guangling county of Datong, North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 23, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

Liu Jinping (L), founder of a handknitting cooperative, instructs a new employee in Guangling county of Datong, North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 23, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

Tourists look at handmade lanterns displayed by a handicraft company in Guangling county of Datong, North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 23, 2018.[Photo/Xinhua]

Workers make wicker baskets at a handknitting cooperative in Guangling county of Datong, North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 23, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]