Road map to winning battle against poverty in 3 years

(chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2018-11-22

An employee connects electrical cables atop a 30-meter-high, 110 kV power transmission tower in the Tibet autonomous region. [Photo by Song Weixing/For China Daily]

---- Power and telecom networks

Major national power grids should cover all county seats across the country by 2020.

Via compensation policy, encourage telecom companies to invest more to reach broadband coverage of more than 90 percent of poverty-stricken villages. Telecom carriers are encouraged to provide preferential policies to impoverished groups.

Rural e-commerce service stations shall be built in poverty-stricken counties at higher priority than other areas. China will mobilize major e-commerce companies and counties that are strong in e-commerce to help poor counties establish poverty relief online channels.