Tongren seeks to reduce poverty with Suzhou's help

Suzhou is offering aid to improve education and promote tourism in Tongren, Guizhou province, to help the city fight poverty.

Suzhou, a coastal city in east Jiangsu province, allocated 8 million yuan ($1.3 million) to build a vocational school in Tongren last year. The local financial department raised the remaining 20 million yuan needed to build the school.

"If one member of a poor family is able to find a job, the family has a greater possibility to be lifted from poverty," said Xia Qingfeng, mayor of Tongren and a deputy to the National People's Congress.