Since 2016, the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province has invested 210 million yuan ($32.55 million) in Hechi's Bama Yao autonomous county in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, said Lan Haizhou, head of Bama Yao autonomous county, on Feb 24.
Shenzhen has given full play to advantages such as its complete industrial chains and its large-scale markets to realize mutual development with Bama, establishing 41 distinctive industrial base projects and providing help to more than 97 percent of the impoverished people in the county.
The city has set up more than 150 supporting projects in Hechi since 2016, benefiting more than 80,000 local people.
The Guangdong-Guangxi poverty alleviation demonstration base for edible fungi in Fenghuang village in Bama was built by Shenzhen's Dapeng New District at a cost of 2.1 million yuan.
A person in charge of the base, surnamed Ren, said that the shiitake mushrooms produced in the base are popular among consumers in Guangdong, and people in Fenghuang village have now been able to gain a stable income and overcome poverty.
Lan said that Shenzhen and Bama have jointly built 38 agricultural bases in Bama, with products spanning Bama original miniature pigs, chickens, camellia oil and edible fungi.
Chain stores selling agricultural products from Bama have been opened in Shenzhen and Guangdong to let Bama's products enter the market in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and achieve poverty alleviation through consumption.
Shenzhen has also introduced high-quality companies such as Overseas Chinese City Group and Huayu Group to carry out tourism development and form a "three-dimensional" tourism industry network in Bama.
Dapeng New District has dispatched more than 100 excellent teachers to Bama to increase local education levels. In addition, it has offered help in the construction of eight high-quality kindergartens and in optimizing the infrastructure of six village primary schools.
Lan added that Bama will further take an active role in integrating with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, undertaking more industrial transfers from Shenzhen and striving to become a demonstration zone for coordinated development between eastern and western China in 2021.
