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Xinhua Headlines: Villagers find new roles in rural vitalization drive Xinhua 09 May 2021, 17:30 GMT+10 HANGZHOU, May 9 (Xinhua) Huang Lifa was born and raised in the villages of Chun an County in east China s Zhejiang Province. After years of living in the area, he has taken on a new role in the community since last summer. Huang, 50, is now an agricultural manager. The new job has been officially endorsed as an emerging profession by Chinese authorities in 2019. According to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, an agricultural manager is someone who assumes the managerial role in an agricultural cooperative, oversees agricultural production, offers technical support or markets its products. ....
2021-05-03 08:36:01 GMT2021-05-03 16:36:01(Beijing Time) Xinhua English HANGZHOU, May 3 (Xinhua) Five years ago, 27-year-old Jiang Lijuan made a life-changing decision. She gave up a promising designer career in Hangzhou and returned to her rural home to start her own business. A drive to her home in Xiajiang Village, some 200 kilometers southwest of the bustling city in east China s Zhejiang Province, offers a feast for the eyes. Traditional houses with black roof tiles and white walls, as well as newly-built bars, libraries and homestay venues line the banks of a river winding through the village. The picturesque village, however, was once plagued by poverty and environmental destruction. Cob walls, stinky sewage and dirty pigsties are the childhood memories for many grown-ups in Xiajiang, including Jiang, who now runs a homestay with her parents. ....