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Government-aided new homes shelter poor farmers from icy weather,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Chen and her mentally handicapped son moved into their newly finished home last December. Shortly afterwards,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a month-long cold wave with heavy snow hit their hometown,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as well as the majority of southern China.
It would have been "terrible" to stay in the old home in such cold weather, said 66-year-old Chen Houlian,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a villager from the Tongzi County of southwestern China's Guizhou Province.Dropping temperatures and occasional sleet were predicted before this year's lunar New Year festival, which begins next Thursday.
Behind the new home stood their old adobe cottage, with visible cracks on the clay walls. Wooden doors and window frames of that cottage were covered with black smoke due to more than 40 years of indoor cooking,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while those of the new house were painted bright blue.In fact,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the old house might collapse after the heavy snow, according to Jin Jing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], deputy head of the County.
Chen's family was one of the poorest in town. The farmland they grew crops on barely produced enough corn and cabbage to meet their needs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while the minimum living subsistence allowance of 2,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],200 yuan (334 U.S. dollars) each year was their total annual income.They would never be able to afford to build a new home on their own without receiving financial aid from a government project, Jin added.
Chen's new house cost over 40,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 yuan. They received 20,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 yuan from the project and 5,000 from the local federation of people with disability. The rest was borrowed from relatives and neighbors.Five pairs of red couplets were posted by each door and window to express their gratitude to all the people who had offered help.
On the day they moved in,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Chen held an outdoor banquet for the entire village using borrowed money to mark the happiest event this family had witnessed for many decades.The government-funded project was launched over two years ago, after a deadly snow storm hit southern China during Jan-Feb 2008,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], collapsing nearly half a million rural houses and causing damage to another 1.7 million.
The project was designed to provide funds to residents living in dilapidated buildings in impoverished rural regions so they might renovate or build new homes.In Guizhou alone,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], over 600,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 families had finished building new homes by the end of 2010 with help from that project,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as over 4.7 billion yuan was allocated to subsidize this building.
The project was part of China's efforts to build its social-security-based housing system,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which also includes affordable housing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], low-rent housing and public rental housing programs to meet the needs of low-income people amid surging property prices across the country.
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Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo and U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon on Saturday both spoke highly of Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the United States earlier this month.During a phone conversation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Dai and Donilon agreed that China and the United States should make joint efforts to properly implement the consensus reached by leaders on both sides and cement the achievements made during Hu's visit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which was on Jan. 18-21.They also said that the two sides should maintain the current momentum in the development of bilateral ties and devote themselves to building a cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and mutual benefit.
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