1st LD-Writethru-China Focus: Northwest China's Gansu shakes off poverty


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  • Sunday, 22 Nov 2020

LANZHOU, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Gansu Province has lifted all its 75 impoverished counties out of poverty, the provincial government announced Saturday.

The last eight poverty-stricken counties in the prefectural areas of Linxia, Longnan, Dingxi and Qingyang, have been removed from the poverty list.

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