Guangxi in southern China is home to a deeply impoverished population spread over a vast geographical space,and is thus one of the main battlegrounds in China’s fight against poverty.To better understand the progress of poverty alleviation and the living conditions of poor households after arriving in Guangxi to take up office,I asked the Guangxi Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development to compile a booklet that I could carry around with me,which was titled A Current Record of Extremely Impoverished Areas in Guangxi.Every time I took an investigative trip to rural areas,I would study the conditions there carefully according to information in the booklet,randomly selecting a few poor towns,villages,and families to see how things were firsthand.