Qingzhen makes progress on relocating, helping poor people

Qingzhen, a county-level city in Southwest China's Guizhou province, has achieved good interim results in follow-up work of relocating and helping impoverished people, according to local officials.

They said it had done so by developing its public services, employment training, cultural services, community governance and grassroots Party building.

Qingzhen city has completed the registered transfer of 835 people from 218 poverty-stricken families to the city's resettlement communities, where there are convenience service centers, supermarkets, clinics, police stations and activity rooms.

Meanwhile, Qingzhen has strengthened its vocational and entrepreneurship training as well as implemented employment recommendations, so that more than one person in each household can be employed.

The resettlement communities in the city have built cultural centers -- integrating services such as education, skill training, physical education and legal education -- and carried out more than 80 cultural, sports and art performances and activities.

In addition, the communities have established community autonomy under the management of local government.