Authorities in southwest China's Yunnan's Province have been implementing water transmission projects to boost green development and transform low-producing fields and barren hills into productive crop fields and orchards to boost farmers' incomes.

Lijiang City of Yunnan Province is leading in green development projects after implementing 112 photovoltaic water pumping projects along the Yangtze River, with 41 of them now completed.

Upon completion of all projects, the beneficiary population will reach 71,800, with the former low-yield fields gradually becoming high and stable yield fields.

After we solved the water problem and made a revamped structures, we decided to grow fruits, including orange, pomegranate and mango which are of high output value. Now, villagers can earn 447,000 to 745,000 yuan (about 65,506 to 109,176 U.S. dollars) per hectare every year," said Luo Junhua, deputy director of Water Resource Bureau of Yongshen County of Yunnan Province.

To conserve water sources, authorities in Hebei Province adjusted the planting structure, focusing on the development of efficient water-saving Chinese herbal medicine planting, which saw villagers seeing a boost in their incomes. The cultivation of herbs is becoming an important industry in many places in the region as it is helping lift poor households out of poverty.

Anguo City in Hebei provides material and chemical subsidies to poor households, while also providing technical support to locals.

"In the past three years, 158 poor households have been lifted from poverty. The net income has increased by about 30,000 yuan per hectare," said Wu Yongjun, deputy director of Agricultural and Rural Affair Bureau in Anguo City of Hebei Province.