China Focus: Science academy helps rural counties fight poverty – People's Daily Online

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — Using science and technology to help people in poor areas become higher earners is one of China’s achievements in poverty reduction. Over the past few years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the country’s leading academic institution for natural sciences, has sent more than 300 poverty-alleviation officials to rural areas and helped people in four national-level impoverished counties to shake off poverty, said the academy’s president Bai Chunli, at a press conference Friday. In summarizing the academy’s achievements and experience in fighting poverty, Bai said that the key lies in using science to promote industrial…