Bringing modern living to rural villages

Retired telecommunications worker has spent nearly two decades helping poverty-stricken areas 'stand on their own two feet'

Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress, China Daily sent six reporters to villages nationwide to live for a month and take a look at how people are working under China's poverty eradication plan.

Some people see retirement as a chance to put their feet up - but not Liu Zhengrong.