Yunnan, China
“To help the needy by whatever means is a great accomplishment,” said Talha Elahi, a Pakistani student who spent his 2019 winter holiday to observe China’s poverty alleviation campaign in a small village named Sabazi in Yunnan Province, China. According to a report published by China Economic Net (CEN), a few months ago Talha was an average Pakistani student studying in Sichuan Normal University. He attends classes, plays basketball, friends others, travels around, with not much difference from his schoolmates.
But earlier this year when he returned to school from Sabazi Village, he came to understand things about China’s poverty alleviation – a must-win battle for the Chinese government – as quoted by him, “two months that I’ll never forget”.
Talha has been in China for further study since 2016. Living in Chengdu, one of the most important financial, commercial, cultural and transportation centers of western China, he is quite familiar with urban life, so he made a decision to experience rural life in China’s developing Yunnan Province, and more importantly, to see how the Chinese government help its people who yearns for a better life. Sabazi Village, with a population of 1,171, is located in Songping Town, Yongsheng County of Yunnan Province.—INP
