Xuan Yan, left, checks whether a villager is receiving social security support. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

China National Aviation's poverty relief partnership with Zhaoping county has helped ensure no one in Jiangkou village has been left behind

"Can you imagine that I was once a skycap?" Xuan Yan said with a smile. Xuan, 49, as a grassroots official responsible for poverty alleviation, has served as the Party secretary of Jiangkou village in Zhaoping county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, since July 2018.

Before that, he was in Beijing, working as a deputy senior manager for global luggage services of China National Aviation Holding Corporation's ground service department.

During the past two years, Xuan, who looks tanned, witnessed at the grassroots level China's complete victory in eradicating absolute poverty, which was announced by President Xi Jinping in February this year.

"It was such a great happiness to serve the villagers and help them get out of poverty," said Xuan. "What I have learned here during the past two years outweighs those in the last two decades," he added.