How China is using science and technology to lift farmers out of poverty Wu Yuehui, Gu Yekai Science and technology are fully exploited by China to help its poverty alleviation efforts, which has increased income for huge batches of farmers. Since 2012, China's science and technology community has established 1 290 platforms to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in rural areas that fostered 77 000 pairs of mutual assistance and dispatched 289 800 experts to rural areas. Investing over 20 billion yuan ($3.09 billion), China's science and technology community has implemented 37 600 sci...