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Like elsewhere in the Chinese countryside, young people have long moved away, leaving behind a few dozen elderly farmers. But then a bookshop opened. On any given day, hundreds, sometimes thousands of people now make the journey up to the village to visit Chenjiapu Bookstore.
Few in Chenjiapu imagined the bookstore would become this popular when the idea was first put forward in But local party secretary Bao Chaohuo β most villagers are surnamed Bao β believed in it, and went knocking on doors to get everyone on board.
The year before, President Xi Jinping had announced that no person in China should live below the poverty line by , kicking off a campaign that would leave officials around the country scrambling to find effective ways to improve local fortunes.
