Rural areas enjoy green shoots of prosperity

A trip down memory lane

Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress, China Daily sent six reporters to live in poor villages for a month to see how China's poverty eradication plan is improving people's lives. Here are the first three personal accounts of life in some of the nation's poorest regions. Three more stories will be published on Thursday.

I spent the period between the end of April and the beginning of June in Guge village, Linquan county, Anhui province, observing the ways in which the people of this poverty-stricken place have improved living standards.