Video: Inside China's 'model town' for poverty alleviation: story of Minning Town

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Over the past two decades, more than 60,000 people living in poor areas of China have settled in a new home - Minning Town.

This poverty alleviation scheme was set up in 1997 by Xi Jinping, who was then deputy Party chief of Fujian Province.

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The system Xi pioneered in Minning is now spreading across China.

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Minning locates in Gansu Province, northwest China.

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