00:01In China, poverty eradication and rural revitalization have transformed the lives of community.
00:07Rural families are improving their incomes, jobs are being created and minority cultures are being preserved.
00:14Our correspondent Bruno Falci brings us this report from Rongjiang, one of the regions that suffer most from this courage.
00:21In the village of Zidang, in Rongjiang, southwest China, a mountainous and difficult to access region,
00:30poverty eradication and rural revitalization programs have transformed the lives of its inhabitants.
00:36Infrastructure has been modernized, jobs have been created and incomes have increased.
00:42Lu Bingley, a community leader, explains how the policies of the Chinese Communist Party
00:49have improved the lives of the population and strengthening the community cohesion and culture.
00:56During the poverty elevation period, the government has improved local infrastructure, fire suppression,
01:04drinking water, electricity and roads has all been modernized.
01:07Before there were only their roads, now there are pay road, water, electricity.
01:12There are small shops and modernized roads.
01:14The infrastructure has been completed to support the fight against poverty.
01:18More attention has also been paid to ethnic culture.
01:21Every year, the government organized ethnic cultural activities.
01:24For example, the Chunchao, before it became famous, our village was little known.
01:28But after the festival's rise in popularity, our village also became well known.
01:33Rural revitalization has improved the economy and strengthened the cultural identity of Dong and Miao minorities.
01:41The government promotes activities and festivals to attract tourists, generate jobs and help preserve traditions.
01:48These programs demonstrate how economic development and cultural preservation can go hand in hand,
01:56strengthening social cohesion and local pride.
02:00The pride, the great Dong chant, with nearly 2,500 years of history, continues to thrive in the community.
02:07Gweizhou province, where Rongjiang county is located, received over $100 billion in government investment in less than a decade.
02:14In San Baidong village, a group of women organized themselves to keep their culture alive, taking advantage of the government investment in less than a decade.
02:39In San Baidong village, a group of women organized themselves to keep their culture alive, taking advantage of the influx of tourists helping improve access.
02:49Yang is one of them, and she told us that according to local tradition, food satisfied hunger and music gladdens the heart.
02:58After rural revitalization, our people's incomes have increased.
03:07Once our income improved, we think about the spiritual realm, about happiness, about well-being, and thus we have the energy to continue transmitting our culture and our spirit.
03:19Before, our lives weren't so good, and we were busy working on early morning, there wasn't much time to preserve our culture.
03:25But now, thanks to rural revitalization and increasing our incomes, we can dedicate more attention to keeping our cultural traditions alike.
03:32Rongjiang has become an international example of how a strong state intervening in the economy can drive structural and lasting change.
03:44With China lifting 100 million people out of extreme poverty and achieving its eradication by 2020, its program has become a model for the entire global south.
03:59Global South, and no false, Rongjiang, China for TeleSUR.
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