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BEIJING, Oct. 9-- Qianqian says little and toys with a corner of her coat, a hand-me-down from her sister. The 11-year-old lives in mountainous Xingchong Village, central China's Hubei Province. Her mother died long ago and her father works in the cities. Her sister, at 20 already mother to a 2-year-old, lives and works in Beijing. The sixth-grader goes to school five days a week and cooks, washes laundry and feeds livestock on weekends for her invalid grandparents. Occasionally she has time to visit a center for children whose parents work away from home, where she reads her favorite Grimm's Fairy Tales and plays games with adults. Qianqian dreams of going to high school and ice-skating. She is one of China's 40 million poor who are expected to be lifted out of poverty by 2020. UNICEF, the All China Women's Federation, the provincial Office of Poverty Alleviation mean little to her, but her life is changing through a poverty relief trial carried out by these organizations and a Danish charity. Her village is in Dawu County, in the Dabie Mountain, one of China's contiguous poor areas. Among its 100,000 people who live below the poverty line, about a fifth are aged under 18. In 2013, a survey by UNICEF and the International Poverty Reduction Center of China changed thinking about childhood poverty in China, says Jillian Popkins, Chief of UNICEF China's Social Policy and Reform for Children Section. | 
