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On the Way to Getting Rich

Gao Tianbi (left), a woman farmer of Tielongbao village in Pingwu County, southwest China’s Sichuan province, washes clothes with running water while her husband plays with their child near her house Wednesday January 3, 2001.

Thanks to the help of the local autherities, farmers in the county, inhabited mainly by minority nationalities, have shaken off poverty and some of them have even become rich.

(People’s Daily 01/04/2001)

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