SUITING THE REMEDY TO THE CASE
Wang Haibian and Wang Min, two men living in Maniao, a fishing community in Lingao County, Hainan Province in south China, could serve as an illustration of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s famous line, “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Both fell into poverty for different reasons and emerged out of it in their own respective way.
Wang Haibian is a former drug addict who was the first in the community to kick his habit with de-addiction treatments and poverty with a loan to start a small business. Wang Min, the father of five who struggled to make ends meet, received education subsidies for his children and a job offer for his
