The story goes back to October 24,2003 when Xiong Deming,a woman living in a poverty-stricken village in southwest China,was on her way back home with a sack of pig feed on her shoulder.She happened to meet Premier Wen Jiabao,who was visiting her village in Yunyang County,Chongqing Municipality.Gathering enough courage,the woman elbowed into the crowd and told the premier that her husband had worked for a whole year on a road project launched by the local govment but had been unable to get his pay,2,240 yuan (8.27 yuan against the U.S.dollar) in total.That accounted for one-third of our income for the year, she said in a recent interview.Most families here make no more than 6,000 yuan a year.