In pictures: China's Wealth Gap

"The agricultural tax is high. Government officials say they are going to reduce the rural taxes, but they haven't and we don't know when they will.

If they did reduce our taxes, that would really change our lives. We are so poor because there is no development here.

The government does give aid but for some reason there is hardly any allocated to this area. I have no way to buy fertilizer. We need economic help."