Nearly 1 million people in China's comparatively poor western
areas have been trained to use computer and the Internet, thanks to
a program recently launched by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth
League of China (CYLC).
The program of computer training for people in poor western
areas was jointly launched by CYLC and the Leading Group for
Western Region Development of the State Council in July
2002.
It called on all society to donate computers to schools in
western poor areas. Young volunteers of long-term
poverty-alleviation projects, including Project of Supporting
Education in Poor Areas and Western Project, have served as the
trainers to conduct computer skill training to the local
people.
Training 1 million computer technicians is a target set three
years ago when the program was launched. The central government
urged local governments to comply with the program to ensure its
implementation.
(Xinhua News Agency October 28, 2005)