Daolang town in Daiyue district, Tai'an enjoys picturesque landscape. [Photo/dzwww.com]

Daolang town in Daiyue district, Tai'an, Shandong province is making efforts to lift local villagers out of poverty.

The town has invested 10.16 million yuan ($1.46 million) of special funds for poverty alleviation and developed 26 industrial projects focusing on featured planting, photovoltaic power generation and rural tourism.

The total income of the projects reached 950,000 yuan, benefiting 121 poverty-stricken households and 239 people.

A total of 15 projects have been carried out to help improve public infrastructure including building cultural squares and parking lots as well as renovating roads.

The town has focused on developing ecological agriculture and all-for-one tourism integrating folk culture and rural landscape.

Local government has established four ecological agriculture greenhouses to develop fruit-picking and farm tourism, which generated annual income of 90,000 yuan and helped 10 villages, 53 poor households, and 102 poor people increase their income and get rid of poverty.