Members of the Rewa Provincial Council team that recently returned from a study tour to China said there are many poverty alleviation cycles that one can learn from the villages and programs there.
Paramount chief of Rewa, Ro Teimumu Kepa said the visit gave them the opportunity to study the models and saw first hand how the community were able to adopt and apply these methods to help them with everyday life.
“It was an eye opening experience for everyone as we visited the urban and especially the rural parts of China and saw for ourselves the efforts for eradicating poverty at true grassroots level, in real time happening before our very eyes.”
Ro Teimumu said being in China helped the delegation understand the systems that have propelled bits of China out of the poverty cycles.
“Many of us had gone to China with pre-conceived ideas about China framed by what we had heard about China but what we saw and witnessed there gave us a broader view of China and gave us a better perspective of the country.”
“The delegation interacted with many rural and district officials on this visit and now we will be discussing what we can do as a Province, to take on some of these models for the benefit of our people.”
