China removes all remaining counties from poverty list

In this combo photo, the upper part taken on Aug. 27, 2019 shows a group photo of some students and a teacher at Gugang primary school, and the lower part of a copy photo shows a group photo taken in the same school in 1980s, in Longli County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. 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 Wenbin)