In 2018, Li Jian was elected the party branch secretary of Fulou Village by a majority.
Located in the southeast of Henan Province, Fulou Village was known to be very poor. By the time Li was elected, there were still forty-two poverty-stricken households in the village, and their conditions were particularly poor. Li and his colleagues implemented poverty alleviation plans according to their conditions. After being elected as the village secretary, he and his fellow cadres led the villagers to build shiitake greenhouses, develop a special planting industry, expand poverty alleviation workshops, and lift themselves out of poverty. For more: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-12-09/One-armed-village-secretary-1-4-Billion-W5bNxgNhss/index.html
A valley in southwest China's Yunnan Province is seeing the largest butterfly boom in a decade, with the overall number estimated to hit 150 million.
The United Nations has just marked the International Day for Biological Diversity. Recently, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had some tough words saying, humanity is "waging a war on nature." He referenced not just the threat of biodiversity loss, but also the climate change crisis and escalating pollution. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the Executive Secretary of UNEP's Convention on Biological Diversity, talks with the Heat about the global challenges.
