"My colored pepper will be more expensive when it matures. The output of a greenhouse is more than 20,000 catties, and the benefits are also very impressive in all aspects. My sheds sell for more than 400,000 yuan ($61,933.89 ) a year," said a villager in Sheqi county, Nanyang city.

As part of poverty alleviation measures, Sheqi has made sound annual industrial development plans for poor villages and households to help them cultivate and develop leading industries with stable income growth and a village-level collective economy. It also seeks to ensure that each poor village has a leading industry, and every poor household has income-boosting projects.

Villagers at work in a greenhouse in Sheqi county, Nanyang city [01ny.cn]

In addition, Sheqi has also adopted various models such as trusteeship assistance, cooperative assistance, share assistance, asset income assistance, and generational and support assistance to help poor families embark on the path of industrial development and escape poverty.

A villager works in a greenhouse in Sheqi county, Nanyang city [01ny.cn]

Zhang Bendian, deputy director of the Poverty Alleviation Office of Sheqi County, said that through policy support, more and more impoverished people have got rid of poverty through the development of agricultural industries such as planting, breeding, and processing, and are now able to lead a happy and well-off life.