Paving the Way
Jun 04, 2020
4 minutes
By Yuan Yuan & Li Nan
Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo
Huang Bingfeng came to Beijing as a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC) annual meeting with good news from his hometown. On May 9, Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region shook off poverty, adding Maonan to the list of ethnic groups in the country to beat back poverty.
Some Maonan people wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping, sharing the joy of poverty elimination and expressing their determination to continue to build their hometown. Xi replied to the letter, encouraging them to take this as a new starting point
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