The personal price of China’s war on poverty: long days, late nights and years away from home

By Zhuang Pinghui

HONG KONG, Oct 5 (SCMP): Sometimes the pressure of Li Ping’s job is so great that he can’t sleep at night.

Li was transferred to a remote, mountainous corner of southwestern China in 2016 with a mission to help raise the community out of poverty.

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