Red Date King helps lift villagers out of poverty

Having devoted most of his time to helping lift folks out of poverty by teaching them to plant red date trees, Wu Zisheng has gained an affectionate nickname from people in his village: "Red Date King of Northern Shaanxi".

Born and raised in a small village of Jiaxian county in Shaanxi province's Yulin city, where the soil is suitable for planting red date trees, Wu started teaching people how to plant the trees when he became an official of the village at the age of 18.

Now the director of Jiaxian's red date industry office, which has 12 officials handling affairs related to the production and sale of red dates, Wu often trains farmers in and outside the village on how to grow the trees in a scientific way.