CHENGDU, Sept. 13 -- Two years ago, the only electrical appliance in Ashuo Niuniu's house was a light bulb. But today, her family spends over 50 yuan (about 7 U.S. dollars) on electricity bills per month.
Ashuo Niuniu's family lives in Ahou Village in Daliang Mountain in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Located in one of China's poorest regions, the village was not connected to the power grid until 2007.
"We had to spend hours climbing the mountain to enter the village," said Wang Xiaobing, an official with the local power supply company, who was in charge of the installation of the village's power facilities years ago.
However, even with access to electricity, villagers still lived poverty-stricken lives.
Without a stable power supply and electric devices, the villagers had to use pits in the ground to cook and warm themselves, which filled their houses with heavy smoke within minutes.
"When the village was first connected to the power grid, the power supply was not stable, sometimes unable to even power a light bulb," said Wang, now dispatched by the state-owned company to the village to lead the local people out of poverty.
As the country promotes its largest-ever poverty alleviation campaign, the village has seen changes at an increasing rate.
The power grid in the village was upgraded in 2016, while it gained access to 4G network services in 2018. The road to the village was rebuilt and the impoverished villagers were relocated to new houses, which were equipped with electric cookers and washing machines.
Data from the local power company showed that the average electricity consumption of each family reached 310 kilowatt-hours in 2018, much higher than that in 2017, 117 kilowatt-hours.
The village also started new farming industries, such as growing traditional Chinese medicine. By renting the villagers' land and hiring them to work in the field, the village has significantly improved local people's lives.
"My feet used to be cracked due to lack of shoes and shabby roads," said Boli Muqie, a 74-year-old villager. "But today, I don't have to walk too far any more, I can afford to travel by motorbike or bus instead."
Boli got rid of his old house, which was on the verge of collapse, and moved into a new house as part of the poverty alleviation campaign. "We received free furniture, found jobs and moved to cleaner places," he said.
In 2018, the power use in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, where the village is located, was 13.5 billion kilowatt-hours, nearly 60 percent higher than in 2017.
Behind the figures is the improvement of people's lives and emerging industries.
The per capita income of the registered impoverished villagers was over 7,100 yuan last year, over four times higher than in 2017. Most of the local people now have televisions and washing machines at home.
"It is such a tremendous change, I never would have dreamed of it," Boli said.
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