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Tourists harvest sweet potatoes in the town of Qiaotou in Chengmai, Hainan province, last year. Yuan Chen / For China Daily Hainan province is taking a series of steps to help eradicate poverty by 2020, in line with the central government's poverty reduction plan. In the past five years, the local government helped 617,000 people got out of poverty, and another 83,000 people will follow suit this year. Of Hainan's total population of 9.3 million, about 477,000 remained below the poverty line in 2017. The national poverty line is an annual income of 2,300 yuan ($366) per capita. Hainan, China's youngest province, celebrates its 30th anniversary on Friday. Many measures targeting poverty have helped to improve residents' incomes, such as the development of high-efficiency agriculture and highlighting rural tourism, which yielded better jobs, new farm produce and markets for many once-poor farmers. It beautified many villages as well. In 2017, about 2.84 billion yuan was poured into the..