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Chinese university canteens get “poverty relief potatoes”

on December 26, 2018

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Apart from book donations and volunteer teachers, Chinese college students now have a new option of supporting China's poorer regions -- by gobbling down their potatoes. Northwest China's Gansu Province said they supplied 1,000 tonnes of "poverty relief potatoes" to canteens of a number of Chinese universities in a new poverty reduction campaign that started this year. The universities bought[Read More...]

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