Rural poor to receive scientists
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CHINA will dispatch 18,000 scientific and technical workers annually to help poor villagers become technology-savvy in the battle against poverty.
A plan drafted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development will send the experts to underprivileged residents in remote areas inhabited by minorities.
The personnel will train about 2,300 people every year and assist in the application of new technologies, so that farmers could increase their incomes and be lifted out of poverty, the ministry said. About 100 scientific and technological parks will be set up in poor areas for the poverty relief effort.
The ministry said entities in eastern China, which is more developed, including institutes of higher education, scientific research units and science and technology parks in agriculture, will be encouraged to cooperate with counterparts in the west on precision poverty relief.
Xu Nanping, vice minister of science and technology, said the move aimed to mobilize science and technology to eliminate poverty.
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