Guizhou aims to relocate its poor residents

Measure assists province in its fight to improve lives, provide better services

Guizhou province plans to relocate 670,000 people from poverty-stricken and barren regions this year, bringing the total of relocated people to 1.88 million in four years, the most in the country, the provincial government said.

This year, 1.68 million people nationwide are scheduled to be relocated under the 13th Five-Year Plan on Relocation for Poverty Alleviation (2016-20), and 40 percent will be in Guizhou.