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老少边穷地区 laoshao bianqiong diqu

An abbreviation for former revolutionary base areas, places inhabited by ethnic minorities, remote and border regions poverty-stricken locales

Totaling 1,019 counties, nearly half of the country's total, and 77 percent of the country's total area, these regions include parts of Xinjiang, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, Guizhou, Yunnan, Chongqing, Sichuan and part of Shanxi, Fujian, Shandong, Anhui, Yunnan and Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, and Heilongjiang provinces and autonomous regions.