Diplomacy drives poverty alleviation

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 to ensure that China's poverty eradication plan succeeds.

He Hengjun is an official in Anmengou township, Gansu province, but spends most of his time in a village 10 kilometers away.

In the past two years, He, 45, has been to Zhongjie village almost every day to conduct tasks such as introducing poverty alleviation polices, helping villagers solve day-to-day problems and mediating disputes.