Farmers taste fruit of poverty relief efforts

Over the past several decades, Yan'an, Shaanxi province, has developed agriculture to boost incomes and reduce the poverty rate.

The poor population had dropped to 3 percent by the end of last year, cutting the number of people living under the national poverty line to 47,680, down from more than 205,000 in 2014. In the last three years, more than half the local poor have been lifted out of poverty.

People have benefited from the city's aim to boost the development of modern agriculture and build a national demonstration zone. Last year, 18,000 hectares of vegetable greenhouses were built to produce 1.39 million metric tons of vegetables, earning 3.86 billion yuan ($559 million), according to local figures.