Special agricultural products from Songxian County of Henan Province and the Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which are targets of “paired assistance” for CECEP, as well as from poverty-stricken villages aided by its subsidiary companies, were displayed at the trade fair, including free-range chicken, wormwood and red date tea, orange, Se-rich brown rice, millet and peanut oil. CECEP employees showed great interest in those products and were enthusiastic to buy, with an aim to help farmers in those areas by consumption. During the two-day event, more than 4,000 agricultural products were sold, and trade unions of CECEP subsidiaries signed purchase deals with enterprises in those poverty-stricken areas.

From October 14 to 18, to mark the sixth National Poverty Alleviation Day, Chen Shuguang, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of CECEP, led a team on a tour of Songxian in Henan Province and Fuchuan in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to inspect the group’s poverty alleviation work in these two poverty-stricken counties under pairing assistance.

The poverty relief team of Jiangxi Company has held training sessions in Nanshan Village, Jiangxi Province. With the sessions, the team members and volunteers coached children at the age of compulsory education from poor families in Chinese, math and English for free.

At the home of 84-year-old Ding Baojian in Shichang Village in Songxian County, Henan Province, a shining drinking water tap is shrouded by a plastic bag. He carefully opened the tap, got a glass of water and passed it to me, saying proudly, “Our tap water is drinkable, and very sweet.” Not long ago, however, all the households living in the village still solely depended on the rainwater collected in an open-air water cellar, with fallen tree leaves and waste often floating on the surface. In 2017, during his visit to the village, Liu Dashan, Party committee secretary and chairman of CECEP, required the poverty-relief staff to “solve the local drinking water problem at all costs.”

Since the beginning of 2018, CECEP has made active efforts to help Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region shake off poverty, thanks to which local residents have enjoyed tangible benefits in terms of livelihood, income and education. With an investment of 1.1 million yuan, CECEP constructed a drinking water project, bringing clean and clear spring water to 1,122 villagers. Its donation of 106 solar road lamps worth of 500,000 yuan has benefited 3,300 villagers. It renovated buildings of an abandoned p

From May 27 to 30, Yu Honghui, CEO and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of CECEP, headed a team into Songxian County, Henan Province, and Fuchuan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, to inspect CECEP’s targeted poverty alleviation work. In the two impoverished counties, Yu inspected CECEP-aided livelihood projects and industrial poverty alleviation projects, visited poverty-stricken households, and held talks with local leaders at county, township and village levels to understand the progress of poverty reduction in the two countries and discuss and explore a long-term mechanism and plans for sustained fight against poverty.