Blocks on the road to Riches
By Dan Chinoy | China Daily | Updated: 2009-11-13 08:54
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Du Xiaoshan, a poverty alleviation researcher for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, who founded Funding the Poor Cooperative (FPC) in 1993. Jonah M. Kessel |
Ten years ago, Lu Xuetao's livelihood depended entirely on two pigs and a handful of chickens. A poor farmer in Hebei's Yixian county, just two hours from Beijing, he lived virtually untouched by China's dramatic economic growth, rising standards of living and rapidly expanding opportunities.
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