NW China to lift 100,000 people out of poverty

 　　LANZHOU, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Over the past few days, Rugur and his partners have been reconsidering how to help their village in northwest China's Gansu Province shake off poverty and make more money.

　　Rugur is head of the remote Haikang village in the province's Gannan Tibetan autonomous¹ prefecture. The village has vast pasture and beautiful landscape, but is in need of fund and technology for development.

　　"On one hand, we need to raise chickens and pigs; on the other, we have to figure out a way to develop tourism," he said.

　　At the end of last year, China raised the national poverty alleviation² standard from 1,274 yuan (202 U.S. dollars) to 2,300 yuan, including more people in Gannan prefecture into the poverty alleviation project.

　　According to the new standard, there are 430,000 people living in poverty, or 73 percent of the prefecture's rural population, said Wei Jianrong, secretary of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC).

　　Like Rugur, most grass-roots cadres in other villages are also thinking of ways to lift people out of poverty as mapped out in the prefecture's five-year plan on poverty alleviation.

　　According to the newly-released poverty alleviation development plan of the prefecture from 2011 to 2015, Gannan plans to lift more than 100,000 people out of poverty in the five years.

　　In the prefecture's Zhugqu, or Zhouqu county, where devastating³ mudslide razed⁴ the county and left more than 1,500 people dead in August 2010, China's State Council has earmarked 178 million yuan in the poverty alleviation and disaster prevention program since last May.

　　Commercial crops such as grape, walnut⁵ and herbs for traditional Chinese medicine were planted for industrial development in 30 villages of the county, and dams were built to prevent further geological disasters, according to the prefecture's poverty alleviation office.

　　The program will feed 10,400 people living in poverty, and increase the annual income of people to 3,000 yuan by 2015, according to the office.

　　Poverty alleviation fund will also be poured to the renovation⁶ of households, electricity, drinking water projects road construction and job trainings for poverty-stricken people, said Mao Shengwu, head of the prefecture.

1 autonomous   

adj.自治的；独立的

参考例句：

• They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
• This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。

2 alleviation   

n. 减轻，缓和，解痛物

参考例句：

• These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought alleviation to Sir Thomas's pain. 这些情况及其希望逐渐缓解了托马斯爵士的痛苦。
• The cost reduction achieved in this way will benefit patients and the society in burden alleviation. 集中招标采购降低的采购成本要让利于患者，减轻社会负担。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语

3 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

4 razed   

v.彻底摧毁，将…夷为平地( raze的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The village was razed to the ground . 这座村庄被夷为平地。
• Many villages were razed to the ground. 许多村子被夷为平地。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 walnut   

n.胡桃，胡桃木，胡桃色，茶色

参考例句：

• Walnut is a local specialty here.核桃是此地的土特产。
• The stool comes in several sizes in walnut or mahogany.凳子有几种尺寸，材质分胡桃木和红木两种。

6 renovation   

n.革新，整修

参考例句：

• The cinema will reopen next week after the renovation.电影院修缮后，将于下星期开业。
• The building has undergone major renovation.这座大楼已进行大整修。