No Poverty Land
No Poverty Land
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No Poverty Land

7.0 / 10
2021
5 seasons
52 episodes
RealityDocumentary

Improving the daily lives of rural people has allowed China to tackle poverty like no other countries. In our 12-part series, through the comparison between the past and the present, the program looks back at the poor living conditions in the past, while presenting the happiness of today.

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  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    21-08-202124m

    Improving the daily life of rural people has allowed China to tackle poverty like no other countries. In the first of our 12-part series, we visit a remote "cliff village" deep in...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    28-08-202123m

    Improving the daily life of rural people has allowed China to tackle poverty like no other countries. We follow villagers from the Cliff Village in a migration plan to their new h...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    04-09-202123m

    Yunnan is beautiful with rivers and gorges. But many villagers are poor since they can only travel via hundreds of dangerous ziplines. What can the government do to help them? Hos...

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    11-09-202123m

    Children in the mountainous region of Yunnan province in China often don't go to school until they're teenagers. That's because the roads there are just too dangerous. An initiati...

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    18-09-202123m

    Children in China's impoverished rural mountain region could only dream of going to university, until some businesses decided to help. And when these young people graduated, they d...

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    25-09-202123m

    Ningxia in northwest China is one of the harshest and most remote regions. Millions of impoverished people have been living there for centuries. With the help of richer coastal pro...

  • Episode 7

    7.Episode 7

    02-10-202124m

    Bringing water to Ningxia, one of the driest places in China, is no easy task. But it is helping farmers get out of poverty. Also, one ethnic group in Hainan island has stopped dam...

  • Episode 8

    8.Episode 8

    09-10-202123m

    To lift villagers out of poverty in China, the government cannot do it alone. Large corporations and enterprises must play a role as well. One conglomerate has helped transform an...

  • Episode 9

    9.Episode 9

    16-10-202123m

    In Yunnan, next to the border of Myanmar, lies many impoverished rural villages. Thanks to one local farmer who seized the chance to grow coffee beans, agricultural businesses have...

  • Episode 10

    10.Episode 10

    23-10-202123m

    In a deeply impoverished remote district between Sichuan and Tibet, the image of a 19-year-old local boy was captured and published it online. He boy became so famous that local to...

  • Episode 11

    11.Episode 11

    30-10-202123m

    Through live-streaming, vlogging and other social media platforms, many grassroot citizens have managed to harness digital technologies to catch up with the country's economic grow...

  • Episode 12

    12.Episode 12

    06-11-202123m

    We find out how one foreigner is playing an important role in helping villagers get out of poverty, why he's doing it. Also, in getting rid of poverty in China, many people have ma...

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