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| | Xinhua News Agency: China's Jino people lifted out of poverty.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The Jino people, one of the smallest ethnic group in China, have been lifted out of poverty decades after they leaped from a primitive society to a modern one. |
 | | The State Ethnic Affairs Commission announced that by the end of 2004, Jino people's per capita annual income had averaged 1,614 yuan (194 US dollars), far higher than the country's poverty line set at 637 yuan (77 US dollars). |
 | | The Jino nationality, with a registered population of 18,000, live in compact communities in southwest China's Yunnan Province. |
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