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This photo taken on September 28, 2017 shows a man walking on a paved area in Zhangzhuang village in Lankao in China's central Henan province. When President Xi Jinping last came to central China's Lankao county, it was famous for two things: poverty and the government official who reputedly died trying to end it. Three years later, the hardscrabble area has undergone a Cinderella-like transformation, waltzing across the national poverty line just in time for the Communist Party's twice-a-decade national congress on October 18. / AFP PHOTO / Greg Baker / TO GO WITH China-politics-poverty, FOCUS by Ben DOOLEY (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

This photo taken on September 28, 2017 shows a man walking on a paved area in Zhangzhuang village in Lankao in China's central Henan province. When President Xi Jinping last came to central China's Lankao county, it was famous for two things: poverty and the government official who reputedly died trying to end it. Three years later, the hardscrabble area has undergone a Cinderella-like transformation, waltzing across the national poverty line just in time for the Communist Party's twice-a-decade national congress on October 18. / AFP PHOTO / Greg Baker / TO GO WITH China-politics-poverty, FOCUS by Ben DOOLEY (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)
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