Quan Hongchan was born on March 28th, 2007. She is quite a great girl. On August 5th, 2020, she won the gold medal in the women’s ten-meter platform diving (跳台跳水) in the Tokyo Olympic Games. Soon, the girl’s name appeared in many newspapers, magazines and on TV shows.

Quan’s success surprised lots of people. “Quan Hongchan really did a good job. I seemed to see myself in her, but she did better than I did then,” Guo Jingjing, another famous diver, said.

Quan comes from a poor family in Guangdong. She has an elder brother, an elder sister, a younger brother and a younger sister. Her father is a farmer. Her mother is in poor health after a car accident in 2017, and it made their life much harder. At that time, Quan only spent three years learning to dive.

Chen Huaming is Quan’s coach. He was sure that Quan could be an excellent diver when he first saw her in 2014. He said that Quan was the one who practiced hardest. To improve her family’s life and make her dream come true, Quan worked hard every day. In 2018, Quan joined the Guangdong diving team and she took every competition seriously. In 2020, she joined the national team. In the same year, she got the chance to take part in the Tokyo Olympic Games.

We call the Chinese New Year the Spring Festival. There is a name for each Chinese year. We may call it the year of the sheep, the year of the monkey or the year of the pig. And this year is the year of the tiger.

Before New Year’s Day, people are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. On New Year’s Eve, there is a big family dinner. After dinner, all the family stay up late to welcome the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their friends and relatives. They say “Good luck” and some other greetings to each other. People usually have a very good time during the festival.

Poverty (贫困) is a big problem around the world. But China has done a good job of dealing with it and it has found its own way to fight poverty. Instead of just giving money to poor people, it has tried to educate people and give them the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty. Ordinary people play a big role in the fight. Here are two of them.

Zhang Guimei has been helping girls pursue (追求) education since she traveled to Yunnan at the age of 17. As a teacher, Zhang was heartbroken when she saw her students quit school after finishing senior high school. They couldn’t go to college because their families couldn’t afford it. So in 2008, Zhang started a free school for poor girls. Since then, Zhang has been busy asking for donations to provide money for the school. She has convinced (说服) parents to send their daughters back to school. The school has sent more than 1,800 students to universities and colleges.

When Mao Xianglin started to work as the party secretary of his village, there was only one pathway out of the village for many years. He led more than 100 villagers to build a road with their hands. It took them seven years to build an eight-kilometer road. Mao then encouraged the villagers to grow oranges. Last year, their orange yield (产量) was nearly 40 tons. Young people have returned to the village to sell oranges online. By the end of 2019, 269 villagers had been lifted out of poverty. The per capita income (人均收入) reached 12, 670 yuan, 40 times more than in the 1990s.

Over the last eight years, 98. 99 million rural people have been lifted out of poverty. The 832 counties (县) and 128,000 villages which these people live in are no longer in poverty. China has been responsible for reducing 70 percent of poverty worldwide since the late 1970s.

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