Sight of poverty changes official's life

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.

Liu Hongxia, 43, has been helping Gu Huaying for nine years. But to Gu, 22, she is more of a mentor than a savior.

In 1995, Gu was born into a poor family in Mazhou township, Jiangxi province. Her mother died when she was a month old. Her stepmother, whom her father married years later, was mentally unstable and suffered from various diseases, though she brought two boys and a girl into the world.