The sun sets on Jinxing village in Chengbu Miao ethnic autonomous county, Hunan province. Chengbu was removed from the list of impoverished counties at the beginning of last year, having become a booming tourism and agricultural center. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Farmers enjoy a light moment with chilis harvested in Zunyi, Guizhou province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The Sanyou village in Chushul county, Tibet autonomous region, is home to 184 families of more than 700 Tibetan people, who were once impoverished. Their lives have been improved through relocation to the village. [Photo/Xinhua]

Huang Shengen, a teacher at a primary school in Hongtang town in Yichun, Jiangxi province, gives a Chinese lesson to a girl, on March 19, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

Farmers pick chrysanthemums in a poverty-alleviation planting base in Baokang county, Xiangyang, central China's Hubei province, November 5, 2020. [People's Daily Online/ Yang Tao]

Ma Huihuang (left), head of the poverty relief team of Shibadong village, and villager Shi Linjiao promote local products via livestreaming at Shibadong village of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture, Central China's Hunan province, May 15, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

Poverty relief assistants Liu Ying (1st L) and He Changle (2nd L), as well as village officers, help carry melons planted by villagers in Dongqin Village, Congjiang County of Southwest China's Guizhou province, Nov 11, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]