On Aug 16, a delegation from CACF's (China-Africa Cooperation Forum) poverty reduction and development conference visited Bijie city, Guizhou province to inspect the results of anti-poverty work.

The delegation included African representatives from Botswana, Mauritius, Liberia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and international organizations from the African Union, the European Union, America, Japan and Denmark.

Delegates visited a purebred Angus farm, Evergrande second village, the vegetable greenhouse of Fengshan township, a local technical secondary school, and other villages.

The CACF delegation arrives in Bijie. [Photo/gog.cn]

The guests were briefed on the relocation of poverty alleviation, industrial poverty alleviation, and educational poverty alleviation, and carried out exchanges with local officials and low income families.

As an area targeted for poverty alleviation, Bijie has achieved great success over the past 30 years. The number of impoverished people was reduced by 5.94 million, and the rate of poverty dropped from 56 percent to 8.89 percent.

Bijie has also promoted a 15-year education system and added?five institutions of higher learning, increasing the average year of education from 3.6 years to 8.6 years.

With improvements in education, economy, health, and entertainment, Bijie is 90 percent of the way to becoming a basically well-off society.

Representatives at a local vegetable greenhouse. [Photo/gog.cn]

Representatives walk along the old street in a local village. [Photo/gog.cn]