Shibadong Village: Paradigm for China's targeted poverty alleviation

A village of the Miao ethnic group in central China's Hunan Province has set a model for the nation’s targeted poverty alleviation efforts. It is the mountainous village of Shibadong, a village that was once so notorious for its destitution but has now become an illustration of China's historic campaign to eradicate poverty by 2020.




Shibadong, located in the remote mountainous county of Huayuan in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture of Hunan, used to be a poverty-stricken village with little arable land and an inadequate transportation system.


In November 2013, during an inspection tour of Hunan, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Shibadong Village. It is here where he first put forward the concept of "targeted poverty alleviation."


This concept of tailoring relief policies to different local conditions has become a guiding principle in China's fight against poverty.

Produced by Yuan Meng, Liu Ning, Jeffrey Moeller, Cui Yue

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