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    Nouvelle Canteen Cuisine

    Jan 13, 2022 4 minutes
    By Tao Xing
    Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

    What does 3 to 5 yuan ($0.47-0.78) buy you in a Chinese metropolis? The answer: one small bottle of water or a cup of instant coffee. Across the vast rural area, however, this small sum can buy a student better health.

    Tie Jiaxin is a pupil at Daping Primary School in Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Every day, she enjoys a free school lunch package consisting of one meat and two vegetable dishes such as fried beef with green peppers and glass noodles, fried carrots with shredded potatoes or fried cabbage with garlicstirred scallions and mushrooms.

    Xiji was removed from the country’s poverty list in 2020.

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