Opening-up bears fruit in poor county

Landlocked community in mountainous region designated as key area for poverty alleviation by central government

In a recent research report written after a field study in Nanjiang county, Sichuan province, the Institute of Political Science of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences hailed the landlocked county's experience with green development as a role model for 74 other counties and districts in the less-developed Qinling-Dabashan Mountain Area, as well as for most other mountainous counties in China.

Designated as a key area for poverty alleviation by the central government, the Qinling-Dabashan Mountain Area covers parts of Gansu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan and Hubei provinces and Chongqing municipality. Nanjiang is also part of it.