To help move up poverty alleviation, North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region has sent out more than 5,000 tech personnel to its poverty-stricken areas over a six-year period, according to information released by the autonomous region’s department of science and technology.

In 2014, Inner Mongolia began to implement a special scientific and technological personnel plan. 

Each year, about 900 scientific and tech personnel are selected to provide scientific and technological services to 57 counties and districts in Inner Mongolia’s 11 cities and banners.

By the end of last year, the department had accumulatively deployed 5,083 scientific and technical personnel – involved in areas like agriculture, animal husbandry, scientific research management, processing and manufacturing, biology, electronic information and ecology.

Officials said a total of 1,226 scientific and technical personnel have been trained to date.

Meanwhile, the plan has obtained central financial support funds of 101.66 million yuan ($14.39 million) and training funds of 1.16 million.

The selected personnel focus on the technical needs of the pillar industries and industries with potential in the areas being helped, promoting and implementing  scientific and technological achievements.

They have provided technology and know-how for poverty alleviation in the autonomous region – and helped improve the overall level of economic and social development of the aided areas, officials added.