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We are pledging to achieve the first centenary goal of building a 2019: Memorable things in Yunnan moderately prosperous society in all respects in the “milestone” year. We pledged to lift all rural residents living below the current poverty Editor’s Note: In 2019, we witnessed an array of big and new things in Yunnan, such as the Pilot Free Trade Zone, digital Yun- line out of poverty and eliminate poverty in all poor counties.The nan, tourism revolution, ecological protection and poverty alleviation. These have brought enormous changes to the province and year of 2020 is crucial in winning the anti-poverty battle, the clarion left long-lasting memories on the people’s minds. has sounded. We must work together and work hard... to secure a victory in the battle against poverty. ——Excerpt from the New Year speech by Chinese Presi- Key term: Leading the pack Key term: Digital Yunnan dent Xi Jinping on Dec. 31, 2019. In 2019, the Digital Yunnan pro- services, tourist complaint handling The National Bureau of During this period, Yunnan gramme focused on smart tourism, and other functions. The “Yunnan at Statistics of China recently achieved a GDP of 1,297.185 smart education, smart agriculture Your Fingertips” platform has made POVERTY ALLEVIATION published the economic growth billion RMB (US$ 186.246 and smart industry. The online plat- an increasing number of government data of 31 provinces, munic- billion). This is a year-on-year form “Yunnan at Your Fingertips”, services available online. Further- ipalities and autonomous re- increase of 8.8 per cent, 2.6 per which was launched in October 2018, more, Yunnan took the lead in becom- Targeted poverty alleviation leads to happiness gions for the first three quarters cent higher than the national has been developed further. It now ing the first province in the country to “Deng Xuesheng’s eldest daughter school, earning 1,500 yuan per month. of 2019. average of 6.2 per cent. integrates live streaming of scenic introduce facial recognition check-in studies economics at Univer- I work in the village as a cleaner and spots, tour guide services, transport services for passengers of all airlines. sity, the elder daughter studies Food an ecological forest ranger, earning Quality and Safety at Yunnan Univer- 500 yuan and nearly 800 yuan a month sity of Traditional Chinese Medicine, respectively. We are thankful for all Key term: Tourism revolution Key term: EMU and the little one studies in a middle these with the support from our Party school in Dali. We are going to help his and Government.” In Yunnan, tourism has long a hassle-free returns policy In 2019, EMUs (Electric Multi- Last year, many people left the three daughters to finish their college Deng Xuesheng added, “On top of been a characteristic industry. and developed smart tourism. ple Units) came to , Mengzi mountains for the first time, to educations.” On November 5, in the these, we got a subsidy of 20,000 yuan However, it has gone through Data shows that from January and and made these cities embrace the outside world. Seeing small courtyard of Deng Xuesheng, a when we built our house back in 2017. a period of unstable develop- to October 2019, the province more accessible. The high-speed rail the enormous potential for de- resident of Juxiang Village and Cige- And we apply for a loan of 8,000 yuan ment. In 2019, the province received 15 per cent fewer has shortened the distance between velopment, businesspeople came shang Village group, Yongchun Town- once a year to pay our children’s tui- launched a tourism revolution complaints on the 12301 na- cities and brought people closer. to the province with projects and ship, Weixi Lisu Autonomous County, tion fee. Taking targeted measures to by regulating the market, to tional tourist complaint plat- The high-speed railway lines funds. Opening up and convenient one of the hot topics was to avoid alleviate poverty, Diqing Tibetan Au- provide tourists with a bet- form as compared to previous have been woven into a network transport are making the province a going back to poverty because of his tonomous Prefecture has been imple- ter experience. It introduced years. and changed the lives of people. better place to live in. kids’ schooling. menting a new policy of compulsory In Juxiang, every family values edu- education for 14 years. With the policy, cation. Children, regardless of gender, children are tuition-free until they go Key term: Poverty alleviation Key term: Pilot Free Trade Zone are supported to go to school. Zhao to college.” Jianghong, village party secretary of “I came to work in Juxiang vil- On August 30, 2019, the China approvals have been replaced by Juxiang village, said, “The future is lage in 2015, involved and witnessed In 2019, tens of thousands of the rest of the country. Accord- (Yunnan) Pilot Free Trade Zone post-registration approvals, thus bright, but it is hard to support children the precise poverty alleviation,” said government officials, enterprise ing to statistics, the number of (consisting of the Kunming, Hong- significantly reducing the time limit to school.” Zhao Jianghong. Targeted poverty employees, teachers and vol- poor people in Yunnan’s deeply he and Dehong areas) was estab- required for securing approvals. “It is not that difficult with the care alleviation not only brought happiness unteers went to poor areas and impoverished areas has de- lished. On December 1, the China From August 30 to December 6, from our Party and Government,“ said to Deng Xuesheng’s family, but also joined in the battle against pov- creased from 1.378 million in (Yunnan) Pilot Free Trade Zone 2019, some 2,500 enterprises, en- Deng Xuesheng’s wife, smiling. “Now, brought great changes to Juxiang vil- erty. Their goal was to lift all 2018 to 365,400 in late 2019. rolled out the reform of separating compassing processing and trade, Deng Xuesheng works as a security lage. Every family’s sense of gain was rural residents currently living The poverty headcount ratio permits and certificates for business big health, cross-border tourism and guard at the county ethnic primary very real. By Xiong Yan below the poverty line out of has dropped from 13.29 per licences, to further improve the e-commerce, registered in the three poverty by 2020, in line with cent to 3.52 per cent. business environment. The reforms areas of the China (Yunnan) Free mean that many pre-registration Trade Pilot Zone. China unveils logo for 2020 UN biodiversity conference CULTURE ical Diversity (COP 15), and the con- vention’s secretariat on HIGH-TECH ECO January 9 jointly unveiled the Poya song book of Zhuang: logo for the United Nations gathering. In the shape of a water droplet or a 81 symbols and 81 love songs seed, the logo is inspired by the art of Chinese paper-cuttings and seals, Poya Village is located in and a woman’s meeting, get- and consists of elements with distinc- the deep mountains of Boyi ting to know each other, falling tive Chinese characteristics. Against town, Funing county, Wenshan in love, and getting old. the background of the oracle bone Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Nong Fengmei, the owner inscriptions, the “water droplet” con- Prefecture, Yunnan province. of the song book, can sing tains a giant panda, a girl in an ethnic The 55 Zhuang households in an entire song whenever she China, the hosting country of the costume, a peacock, a butterfly, plum the village still retain a tradi- sees these pattern symbols. 15th meeting of the Conference of the blossoms and sea waves that reflect tion of singing folk songs. This method of recording folk Parties to the Convention on Biolog- biological and cultural diversity. The Poya Song Book is an songs is passed down from ancient rune handed down from generation to generation with the village. On a white cloth a long history. Now more than “Dianxi Xiaoge” bringing a foot wide and two feet long, 20 people in the village can there are 81 symbols of objects read folk songs through picture the flavour of Yunnan to the world such as moon, stars, trees, rice symbols. The Funing Zhuang leaves, people, horses, bird Poya Song Book was included cages painted with red cactus in the national intangible cul- juice, which represent names tural heritage protection list in of 81 love songs. It records the China in 2011. Poya villagers are singing folk songs on the stage. Photo by Zhou Can love journey of a young man (Xinhua) CONNECTIVITY Yunnan: High-speed rail brings new hope On December 20,2019, construc- tion began on the Yunnan section of Figures the Chongqing-Kunming high-speed Dianxi Xiaoge with yellow bucket hat happily taking picture with her fans. railway, an important part of Chi- 1. Since the founding of A 90s Yunnan girl’s video, “Dianxi living expenses in college. In four na’s high-speed railway network. the New China, the operating Xiaoge”,has achieved enormous pop- years, she hadn’t ask for money from When this railway is completed, one railway mileage in Yunnan ularity abroad. her family. can travel by train from Kunming to has grown from 649.8 kilo- She records how Yunnan food is After graduation, she joined an Chongqing or Chengdu in just about metres in 1949 to 3914.7 prepared from the field to the table, internet start-up company and ended two hours, as compared to the cur- kilometres in 2018, a six-fold shares the daily life of her family and up back in her hometown in 2016 rent five to six hours. On December increase. outlines a moving rural life. because of her father’s illness 14, the Chengdu- high- She works from sunrise to sunset, Perhaps because of her work ex- speed railway went into operation, 2. The high-speed railway turning seemingly ordinary days into perience in the internet company, the bringing northeast Yunnan’s Zha- in Yunnan has been expand- a poem and making people yearn for “Xiaoge” changed from relying on otong into the high-speed rail era. ing in terms of both density Yunnan cuisine. acquaintances to sell Yunnan local The Chengdu-Guizhou high-speed and scope. Now, one can As of December 19, 2019, “Dianxi products to shooting videos. The tar- rail starts in Chengdu (Sichuan), travel directly from Yunnan Xiaoge” had 3.24 million followers get audience shifted from family and calls at Zhenxiong and Weixin in to the major cities in 19 other on Microblog, 3.57 million followers close friends to strangers in front of Zhaotong, and terminates in Gui- Tourists take pictures at the Bisezhai Station on the Yunnan- Railway. provinces, municipalities and on YouTube, 380,000 Facebook us- a screen. yang (Guizhou). The railway has a will increase their connections with railway projects will make Yunnan autonomous regions by high- ers and 1.4 million fans on Douyin. The Yunnan flavour presented total length of 648 kilometres and a other areas, thus helping develop even more accessible. On the inter- speed railway, and transfer to The “Dianxi Xiaoge” actually is in her video has become the most speed of 250 kilometres per hour. their economy and lift residents out net, Chinese netizens are expressing most cities in the country. a girl. “It is a playful and easy way prominent label of her works that The high-speed railway network of poverty. the hope that high-speed railways to call myself a Xiaoge (little broth- made countless netizens from know- has improved connections between The Chongqing-Kunming high- will soon come to their own home. 3. The Chengdu-Guizhou er), and West Yunnan represents ing Yunnan cuisine to longing for ’s Yunnan province speed railway and other high-speed high-speed railway is the first the geographical coordinates of her Yunnan. and other provinces in the country. tourism-oriented high-speed hometown Baoshan,” she explained She made seasonal crops in Yun- Zhenxiong is, with more than one Yunnan's first railway goes abroad railway in China. It calls her online name. In the video, the nan into delicious food neverheard million inhabitants, the most pop- at 26 AAAAA-rated scenic Dianxi Xiaoge can chop down sugar of by foreigners, liketamarind cake, ulous county in Yunnan. Weixin is The 859-kilometre Yunnan-Vietnam which was completed in 1966. Today, spots in Yunnan, Guizhou and cane and also get irritated with tears Yunnan ham cake, bamboo-tube a county at the junction of Yunnan, railway is the province’s first railway. It Yunnan is building more railways to Sichuan. These include the by hot peppers. cooked rice, spicy sauce and others. Guizhou and Sichuan. Both coun- went into operation in 1910, to connect improve connections with other coun- Leshan Giant Buddha and The “Dianxi Xiaoge” studied at Each episode of her video has about ties are impoverished and used to Kunming with . It is still in tries. Construction on the China- Mount Emei in Sichuan, and Sichuan Police College and partic- 3 million views. AWOL, an Austral- be quite inaccessible but are now use today. The first railway connecting Railway, from Kunming in the north to Zhijin Cave, Huangguoshu ipated in rescue operations in two ian media outlet, says the “Dianxi connected to the high-speed railway Yunnan with other Chinese provinces Vientiane in the south, is accelerating waterfall and Qingyan An- incidents and won a series of hon- Xiaoge” channel has fascinated the network. The high-speed railway was the Guizhou-Kunming Railway, and will go into operation in 2021. cient Town in Guizhou. ours and bonuses, which paid for her world. By YDPG

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