China removes all remaining counties from poverty list

Workers make clothes at a poverty relief garment workshop in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 14, 2020. China has achieved the feat of removing all remaining counties from the country's poverty list. The last nine impoverished counties, all in southwest China's Guizhou Province, have eliminated absolute poverty, the provincial government announced on Monday. This means that all 832 registered poor counties in China have shaken off poverty. (Xinhua/Yang Ying)