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Poverty Alleviation Benefits All BORN in 1966，Yu Fumin is tall，thin and looks older than his age. He and his wife live in one of the fields along the G40 Shaanxi-Shanghai Expressway. Their home is a small， dark， wooden shed， piled with sundry items， with hardly any room to stand. They grow green vegetables beside the house， and next to their greenhouse is a line of one-meter-tall walnut tree saplings. Their tiny dwelling is just 50 meters away from the noisy expressway， where trucks and other vehicles thunder past at all times of the day. Shake off Grinding Poverty Yu Fumin’s home is in China’s northwestern city of Shangluo in Shaanxi Province， 110 kilometers southeast of Xi’ an， the provincial capital. Traveling there to Shangluo， however， takes almost two and a half hours， as the bus passes through the Daba Mountain tunnel. Shangluo is located in a water conservation area midway along the southto-north water transfer project， and is also a mineral rich area. Yet Shangluo’s economy is yet to gain ground. It is one of the country’s 14 pov-esrtrticyken areas that constitute the nation’s one percent poorest. As Director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission Zhang Yongping observed，“The one urban district and six counties of Shangluo are all poverty-ridden areas. Changing this is a monumental task.” Annihilation of poverty is one of China’s main goals over the next five years， and perceived as the biggest challenge to building a moderately well-off society in the country. It entails changing the conditions of 665 poverty-stricken counties nationwide in order to lift more than 70 million people out of poverty by 2020. For Shangluo，this means helping its 490，200 residents shake off poverty. The village where Yu Fumin lives was formerly called Wangjian. It merged with two other rural communities of Yangyuhe Town in December 2014 to form Xieyuan Village. In addition to migrant workers employed at nearby private enterprises and other members of the socalled flo