Poverty relief official goes extra mile raising villagers' incomes

After four years in the formerly poverty-stricken village of Chenxiaozhai, Liu Yuan says he will probably leave but will always cherish his experiences there.

In April 2017, the now 54-year-old Liu was one of 753 officials dispatched to hundreds of key villages in East China's Anhui province to work on poverty relief.

Formerly attached to the publicity department of the CPC's Fuyang city committee, Liu was appointed first Party secretary－a Party member deployed by higher authorities usually to oversee poverty relief work－of the village, which is in southern Linquan county, and he has been working to meet his goal ever since.