Colleges serve potato dishes for poverty relief

LANZHOU - Apart from book donations and volunteer teachers, Chinese college students now have a new way to support China's poorer regions - by gobbling their potatoes.

Northwest China's Gansu province has supplied 1,000 tons of "poverty-relief potatoes" to the canteens of a number of Chinese universities in a new poverty-reduction campaign that started in 2018.

The universities bought potatoes directly from farmers in Dingxi, a city known for using potato farming to alleviate its grinding poverty, according to the province's education department.