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Yang Liusheng, 47, is skillfully using a sewing machine to hem a long skirt. After finishing sewing, these skirts will be sold to all parts of China through e-commerce platforms.
Instead of in a factory or a tailor store, Yang makes clothes at home in Yudu County, east China's Jiangxi Province.
Working together with his wife in the "micro-workshop" in his apartment, Yang's family had an income of about 60,000 yuan (about 8,500 U.S. dollars) in 2019.
For Yang's family with disabilities, it is a substantial income compared to the figures in the past years when they lived under the national poverty line.
Yang now lives in Siyuan Community, a relocation neighborhood for impoverished populations from uninhabitable areas in Yudu, a place where around 86,000 Red Army officers and soldiers left for the Long March in October 1934.
Cangqian Village, Yang's hometown, is one of the most remote mountain villages in Yudu.
In Yang's early years, his family of six people crowded into an adobe house built by his grandfather with only three rooms, which were cold in winter and even leaked in raining days.
Sun Juying, an official with Siyuan Community, still remembered her first travel to the mountain village.
"When I first went there in 2012, there was only a one-foot-wide mud road leading to the village. Villagers even couldn't ride a bicycle on it," Sun recalled.
In Cangqian, apart from arable lands and mountain forests, there is almost no flat ground for villagers to build houses.
"To build a house, people had to carry sands and gravels on their shoulders from outside step by step," said Sun.
Moving out from the mountains had always been Yang's dream.
"I used to walk for three and a half hours to go to school when I was a kid," he said.
To make it easier for his son to go to school, Yang went to Yudu County in 2007, living in a rented house there for nearly 10 years.
In 2016, Yang moved into his new apartment in Siyuan Community in Gongjiang Town, thanks to the local government's poverty alleviation policies, including relocation programs.
"The 110-square-meter apartment and a 25-square-meter garage cost less than 220,000 yuan," Yang said.
"But we only paid over 10,000 yuan to move into the house after we applied for poverty alleviation subsidies and loans from the local government," Yang said.
Like Yang, so far, a total of 596 poverty-stricken households have moved into the community.
Yudu, with a tradition of fluffing cotton and sewing clothes, is home to more than 2,200 textile and garment enterprises. In Siyuan, many residents are engaged in the garment industry, achieving a stable income every year.
Between 2016 and 2020, China plans to lift about 10 million people out of poverty through relocation, which has so far benefitted over 9.6 million.
In Jiangxi, 35,000 households with a total of 134,700 poverty-stricken people have benefited from relocation programs and moved into new houses during the period.
