Poverty relief in Xinjiang

A worker checks the growth of geese at a goose incubation base in Yutian County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, May 19, 2020. Thanks to strenuous efforts from all sides, major progress has been achieved in Xinjiang. From 2014 to 2019, a sound economic momentum was sustained with an average annual GDP growth rate of 7.2 percent. Living standards of the local people have significantly improved with an average yearly growth of 9.1 percent in residential per capita disposable income, and more than 2.92 million out of the 3.09 million registered as impoverished people shook off poverty. [Photo/Xinhua]