CGTN published this video item, entitled “NW China’s Dongxiang gets its first female excavator operator” – below is their description.
Twenty-one-year-old Han Lingling is a trainee #excavator operator in a #vocational school in Dongxiang County, northwest China’s Gansu Province. She is the first and only female excavator operator in the county, and has been practicing her excavator operation skills for free in the school over one month. She said that “I don’t know how to drive, but I do know how to operate a mini excavator.” Some people and even her parents didn’t understand her choice before. But she stuck to it. “It’s not like an excavator can only be operated by boys,” said the girl. After graduation, Han could make at least 6,000 yuan a month, and she wants to take the pressure off her parents. Dongxiang County is an impoverished county with a poverty ratio at 38.69 percent in 2013. Since 2019, the local vocational school has offered free training for students in Dongxiang County. In 2020, 772 poor households had completed training sessions in the school. By developing education, local authorities hope to help poor villages gain skills that can gradually eliminate poverty. In 2019, the poverty ratio dropped to 4.25 percent in the county. #ZeroPoverty2020
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