Official embraces poverty relief in remote community

HEFEI - When 54-year-old official Li Chuanxi first told his wife last year that he had volunteered to become a poverty relief worker in a remote rural village, she answered casually without taking her eyes off the TV.

The next day, learning that Li really meant it, she lost her temper.

"My friends said that I must be insane," Li said. "You are no longer young and you've got all you want, they told me. Why go to this trouble?"