The China Resources Vanguard's Liantang branch opened on June 18 as an outlet selling agricultural produces from Longlin and Xilin, two counties in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.  Luohu is aiding in their poverty alleviation program.

The Luohu district government welcomes local residents to buy these agricultural products, including rice, mushrooms, edible fungus and passion fruit, to make their contributions to the poverty alleviation work.

The Liantang branch of the China Resources Vanguard, a chain supermarket, will be serving as platform for the specialties of the two counties.

A responsible official of the supermarket said it will reduce the intermediate links so that the farmers can enjoy more profits, while consumers can buy quality agricultural products at reasonable prices.

As of the end of last year, thanks to Luohu’s assistance over the past few years, the entire rural population of the two counties had been lifted out of poverty. Luohu now pays more attention to helping the two counties to consolidate the achievements of the poverty reduction work, with a focus on helping migrant workers from the two counties to find jobs in Shenzhen, and farmers from the two counties to sell their agricultural produces.

The China Resources Vanguard opened its first poverty alleviation center in its Chunfeng branch in Luohu selling rice, edible oil, chestnuts and other agricultural produces from Xilin in August last year.

The sales of agricultural products from the two counties through the supermarket have exceeded six million yuan ($927,600) so far.

Until now, Luohu has established 151 counters, two consumption halls and three consumption zones to sell agricultural produces from the two counties, whose sales last year reached 242 million yuan.

A total of 591 migrant workers from the two counties attended trainings organized by Luohu last   year, when more than 7,200 jobs were offered to migrant workers from the two counties.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a total of 9,919 people from the counties have taken the long-distance buses arranged by Luohu to work in Guangdong province, among whom 4,013 people were from poverty-stricken homes.

On May 13, with the help of Luohu, a labor service center was set up in Longlin to help migrant workers from Guangxi look for jobs in Guangdong. The service center functions as a platform for information disclosure, large enterprises' recruitment, consultation, labor dispute mediation and information collection. It has now developed into a bridge between employers in Guangdong and migrant workers in Guangxi.