REN Xuping - China Rabbit King: Rural Poverty Relief, Environmental Friendly Farming

Two-thirds of Chinese live in rural poor living conditions due to the migration of young Chinese to work in cities. They leave the elderly, women and children in rural areas resulting in social problems both in cities and rural areas.

Solutions:

• Encourage the young to return to rural areas
• Improve the living conditions of farmers
• Attract human resources and talents to rural areas
• Measures: micro-finance; introducing modern technology and; sending university student volunteers to work in rural areas among them.
• Social entrepreneurship must promote rural development with business activities that aim to alleviate poverty and improve the living standards of farmers.