Goodbye to Poverty: The Way Out for 800 Million Farmers

Author: Wen Shiren, Lin Guangxin
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This is not an academic book; it is a hymn written in love. The author, Lin Guangxin, is a Taiwanese with a PhD from the United States, serving as the general manager of a computer company in Tianjin. He used his spare time to travel to the vast northwest and visited Huangyangchuan Village in Guluang County, Gansu, one of the poorest places in China. The people there could only bathe a few times a year and lived in extreme poverty. Lin Guangxin was moved and determined to change the situation. He had a vision to help this impoverished rural area leap directly from an industrial society to an information society. The book contains a striking statistic: the combined output value of four American computer companies in 2000 was $210 billion, and these four companies had a total of less than 500,000 employees, while the output value of 800 million Chinese farmers was only $170 billion. This book not only records the most moving witness of an era but also poses a question for church leaders: How should we face the arrival of the internet society?