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Beijing

Market sells products from poor areas

Beijing inaugurated a large retail market on Tuesday to sell specialty foods and products from impoverished counties in what it calls a consumption-led poverty relief project, aiming to get urban residents to buy products made by people from impoverished areas to increase their income. The Beijing Consumption-Led Poverty Relief Industry Center sells more than 2,000 types of products from 89 counties, including quality dates from Hotan, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region; Tibetan incense sticks; and organic lamb from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.