Aerial photo taken on August 17 shows the poverty-relief relocation site for Qiezha village of Gonghe county, northwest China’s Qinghai province. (Xinhua /Zhang Long)    

Thanks to the poverty-relief relocation program, people in Qiezha village, Niandi township of Gonghe county, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Qinghai province, have seen significant improvements in their living standards.

In 2017, 101 poor households from remote areas in the village moved to a poverty-relief relocation site equipped with an activity center, a clinic, a kindergarten and a cultural plaza in the county’s Chengbei New Area. As it is closer to the county’s downtown area, villagers are now also able to find more channels of employment.

The village was a registered impoverished village blighted by harsh, poor conditions and weak infrastructure.

Ga Meji, a villager at the poverty-relief relocation site for Qiezha village of Gonghe county, northwest China’s Qinghai province, sews Tibetan clothes, August 17. She runs a shop that sells Tibetan clothes. (Xinhua /Zhang Long)

A villager at the poverty-relief relocation site for Qiezha village of Gonghe county, northwest China’s Qinghai province, exercises at the cultural plaza, August 17. (Xinhua /Zhang Long)

A child plays basketball at the poverty-relief relocation site for Qiezha village of Gonghe county, northwest China’s Qinghai province, August 17. (Xinhua /Zhang Long)

Ren Qingjie, a villager at the poverty-relief relocation site for Qiezha village of Gonghe county, northwest China’s Qinghai province, stands in front of her house, August 17. (Xinhua /Zhang Long)