Chinese youth are making their own effort to earn a living and alleviate their own poverty. (Photo : Getty Images)
The youth population in China is not giving a headache to the government. Rather, they themselves are making an effort to make a living, beat poverty, and even help out others, a Global Times article noted.
One testament to this is 26-year-old Chen Ze'en, a resident of one of the poorest areas in China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
For almost a year now, Chen has been keeping bees as a means of living. This season, he expects to sell his harvest for 300, 000 yuan ($45, 000) as the size of his swarm increased to about 200 hives. He has not only helped himself and his family but also his fellowmen in his small village.
Their small village serves as habitat for a local species of bee that produces excellent honey.
Chen introduced innovative and proper beekeeping techniques to the village and through this, the beekeeping business boomed and prospered. About 100 villagers are now also making profits from beekeeping.
Chen is now registering a company and a brand name for the honey enterprise. To further increase their sales, he aims to highlight the village's good natural environment and its absence of any industrial pollution, thus providing a clean and organic nature to their product.
Another inspiring story of the striving Chinese youth is that of Li Xingjian.
In 2014 when he was a graduate student at Renmin University in Beijing, he volunteered to teach at a rural middle school in Sichuan.
Renmin University has a program which aims to help the needy in rural areas. Since 2012, the university has sent about 1,000 students to villages for a short program every summer.
Many of Li's student were children living with relatives, left behind by their parents who work in urban cities.
"Compared with what I taught them, simply my being there was more helpful. I felt like a window through which they got a glimpse of an unknown outside world," he shared.
The Chinese government values bright, young people like Chen and Li, especially for the country's battle against poverty.
By 2020, China has set the goal to raise the annual incomes of about 55 million of the country's poorest people to over 2,800 yuan ($422).
