Combo photo taken on June 16, 2019 shows the portrait of Zha Duo, a 14-year-old high school student of Lahu ethnic group (R, photo taken by Hu Chao), and Zha showing his basketball at home in Banmu Village of Mengsuo Township, Wa Autonomous County of Ximeng, southwest China's Yunnan Province (L, photo taken by Qin Qing). Zha likes to play basketball from childhood and his idol is NBA player James Harden. Zhiguo minorities are special members of China's 56 ethnic groups. The term Zhiguo refers to minority groups who, before modernization, had lived in relative isolation and skipped the transition period associated with feudal monarchy. Yunnan is a major concentrated area of Zhiguo minorities, including the ethnic minorities of Jino, Deang, Dulong and six other minority groups. Early in April, the local government announced that ethnic groups of Jino, Dulong and Deang had been officially lifted out of poverty. The rest other Zhiguo minorities are expected to shake off poverty in this year and next. (Xinhua)
