Forest farm lauded for poverty relief efforts--China Economic Net
At the gleaming Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing, forestry worker An Changming strode toward the center stage amid thunderous applause. On behalf of generations of tree-planters at the Saihanba Machinery Forest Farm, he received a gilded plaque from Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. The plaque is inscribed "National Model for Poverty Alleviation", an honorary title that central authorities in February bestowed on dozens of front-line organizations and individuals involved in the country's decadeslong poverty fight. "The title...