Ningxia's 60-year battle against poverty
By Cao Zinan |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2018-09-27 06:30
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Yanchi county is renowned as "The home of tan sheep", a breed raised there and in Northwest China's Gansu province. In 2017, the output value of animal husbandry in Yanchi county, mainly tan sheep, exceeded 1.02 billion yuan (nearly $149million), accounting for 67 percent of the total agricultural output value of the county in 2017. The per capita disposable income of farmers in the same year was 9,471 yuan ($1,381), of which more than 40 percent came from the tan sheep industry.
