Post-90s Woman Devotes to Grid-Based Poverty Alleviation Work in SW China's Guizhou

Aerial photo taken on April 19 shows Jiache Village, Jiabang Township, Congjiang County, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, where Wu Xianyan works as a village-stationed official of poverty alleviation. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan, born in 1994, is a woman of Dong ethnic group from Congjiang County, Southwest China's Guizhou Province. 

She returned to the Moon Mountain Area in her hometown and became a staff member of the Management Committee in Jiabang Terrace Scenic Area in Congjiang after graduating from the university in 2017.

Congjiang is one of the last nine poverty-stricken counties in Guizhou Province. Wu was transferred to work as a poverty alleviation official in Jiache Village in March 2019.

Wu is also responsible for collecting the old-age and medical insurances of the villagers, reporting the information of disadvantaged and impoverished households, and assisting the village committee and Party branch of the village to improve the local living environment.

During the busy farming season, Wu and other village-stationed officials take the initiative to help some households in need transplant rice seedlings and thresh grain. She also uses her spare time to promote the beautiful terrace scenery and folk culture of Miao ethnic group through online platform, trying to attract more tourists to travel and help villagers increase their income.

Being a village-stationed official for grid-based poverty alleviation work for more than a year, Wu has seen that the living environment of the village is getting cleaner, the number of the tourists is increasing, more villagers run agritainment and their incomes are gradually increasing, all of which makes her feel that her efforts are worthwhile.

Wu Xianyan receives a call from a needy family while helping villagers transplant rice seedlings on April 18. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan (1st, L) helps villagers transplant rice seedlings on April 18. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan carries rice seedlings to paddy field along the beautiful terraces on April 18. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan is on her way to help villagers transplant rice seedlings. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wearing traditional folk costume, Wu Xianyan (L) and Liang Qiongying, a villager in her freshman year, promote the beautiful scenery of Jiabang Terrace through live broadcast on April 19. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan (F) and her colleagues help villagers clean up the building materials for maintaining a good living environment on April 19. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan updates the board showing the countdown for the day of lifting the county out of poverty in the poverty alleviation command post of Jiache Village, Jiabang Township, on April 19. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan (R) and a colleague discuss how to fill in the forms on the poverty alleviation work in the poverty alleviation command post of Jiache Village, Jiabang Township, on April 18. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan and other poverty alleviation officials discuss the improvement of the village's living environment in the poverty alleviation command post of Jiache Village, Jiabang Township, on April 19. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan (M) and her colleague communicate with a villager during a visit to impoverished households on the evening of April 18. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

Wu Xianyan (1st, L) visits an impoverished household on the evening of April 18. [Xinhua/Yang Wenbin]

(Source: Xinhua/Translated and edited by Women of China)