Relocated, poor rural farmers, under the direction of the Ningxia Ecological Migration Program, build a small village for resettlement in Yongning County, a frontier area in the northwestern province Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on September 23, 2011. Ningxia has built 25 migration settlements since 1983, allocating over 55,000 hectares of arable land to 412,000 poverty-stricken farmers. The government-sponsored partial migration project to relocate poor farmers living in the arid and frigid southern mountains to the Yellow River irrigation areas is aimed at fundamentally changing and impro
![Relocated, poor rural farmers, under the direction of the Ningxia Ecological Migration Program, build a small village for resettlement in Yongning County, a frontier area in the northwestern province Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on September 23, 2011. Ningxia has built 25 migration settlements since 1983, allocating over 55,000 hectares of arable land to 412,000 poverty-stricken farmers. The government-sponsored partial migration project to relocate poor farmers living in the arid and frigid southern mountains to the Yellow River irrigation areas is aimed at fundamentally changing and impro Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/W00Y02/relocated-poor-rural-farmers-under-the-direction-of-the-ningxia-ecological-migration-program-build-a-small-village-for-resettlement-in-yongning-county-a-frontier-area-in-the-northwestern-province-ningxia-hui-autonomous-region-on-september-23-2011-ningxia-has-built-25-migration-settlements-since-1983-allocating-over-55000-hectares-of-arable-land-to-412000-poverty-stricken-farmers-the-government-sponsored-partial-migration-project-to-relocate-poor-farmers-living-in-the-arid-and-frigid-southern-mountains-to-the-yellow-river-irrigation-areas-is-aimed-at-fundamentally-changing-and-impro-W00Y02.jpg)
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Relocated, poor rural farmers, under the direction of the Ningxia Ecological Migration Program, build a small village for resettlement in Yongning County, a frontier area in the northwestern province Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on September 23, 2011. Ningxia has built 25 migration settlements since 1983, allocating over 55, 000 hectares of arable land to 412, 000 poverty-stricken farmers. The government-sponsored partial migration project to relocate poor farmers living in the arid and frigid southern mountains to the Yellow River irrigation areas is aimed at fundamentally changing and improving living standards by eradicating poverty. UPI/Stephen Shaver