In the district of Enyang in Bazhong City — which is an over three-hour drive from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province — asparagus planting has really kicked off in just the last two years, improving its people’s livelihoods.
According to local officials, 1,565 households consisting of 5,329 people have been lifted out of poverty since the district started pushing this industry in a big way in 2018.
By the end of 2019, no one in the entire district of 580,000 people (2014 consensus) was deemed poor by China’s poverty standards.
Luo Fanghe, 57, who earned 86,000 yuan or 12,000 U.S. dollars in 2019 planting and selling asparagus, is one of them.
Despite having lived with just one full arm since he was 6 months old, he exudes such a positive and grateful persona.
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