Mayor has high hopes for boosting economy

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Xia Qingfeng, mayor of Tongren in Guizhou province, is determined to lead more than 1 million people to prosperity by boosting the economy with ecological concepts over the next decade.

The 43-year-old official held various posts on finance before he was appointed Tongren mayor last year. This experience gave him a lot of ideas to develop the economy in the poverty-stricken city, he said.