Roads improving, giving villagers path out of poverty

Editor's note: Among the policies China has enacted since Xi Jinping became its leader in 2012 is eradicating poverty in the country by the end of 2020, according to a target set by the Communist Party of China leadership. In the run-up to the 19th CPC National Congress this year, China Daily sent six reporters to villages across the country to live for a month and get a look at how people are working to ensure this plan succeeds.

With the start of the wheat harvest this month, residents of a poverty-stricken village in northwest Anhui province are once again facing the possibility of big problems from the area's terrible infrastructure.

Li Zongyin draws a circle with his finger on a map of Guhe. The circle, which covers about one-third of the map of the village, represents about 133 hectares of wheat fields.