The long and winding road to prosperity

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On the first day after Chinese New Year 2019, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held a meeting to highlight the role played by party officials who have been seconded to every corner of the country to wage war against poverty. Among them, the situation in Shanxi Province, which features many mountain villages seems the toughest.

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Tan Yonggang, one of these dedicated officials from Shanxi, faces rigid challenges shown in the three-episode documentary "The Long, Winding Road". He's been racking his brain to find ways to banish poverty from Huyu in Shanxi, an especially daunting task in an isolated village where the majority of the population are elderly.

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Encouraging villagers to play to their strengths, Tan attempted to rally them behind an initiative to revamp the village's pear-orchards. But with most of the villagers beyond retirement age, could it be that this route out of poverty is just too strenuous for them?

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And that's not the only problem. With his efforts to improve communications with the outside world, held up by a dispute between two villagers, it seems that Long and Winding Road out of poverty is a bumpy one too.

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Learn how, with perseverance and persuasion, Tan won the villagers round, getting them to see the bigger picture: The better, more prosperous life open to those who are prepared to walk all the way along the long and winding road out of poverty.

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To find out how Tan Yonggang, one of the many party officials dedicated to the struggle against poverty, has led a community on their way to prosperity, stay tuned to today's CGTN Documentary.