Top students help to lift county out of poverty

An impoverished area in Shaanxi province is seeing living standards rise as a result of proactive education policies

Since 2000, Baihe, a poverty-stricken county with a population of about 220,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, has sent more than 1,800 students to some of China's best universities, providing a way to raise living standards in the area.

"The science student who got the highest score in this year's national college entrance exam in the city of Ankang was in my class. He was admitted to Tsinghua University," said Xie Peicheng, a teacher at Baihe Senior High School.