Bayer lends helping hand to impoverished villages

A three-year poverty-relief project funded with foreign capital has helped transform Longtou village in Chongqing's Wanzhou district, according to a local government official.

The joint effort by Germany's Bayer Group and the State Council's Foreign Capital Project Management Center began in 2012.

It focused on rural development in four villages in Wanzhou, giving support to some 1,200 rural families, most of them living below the poverty line.