Benefits of country life back in fashion

Clockwise from top: An employee of a nursery in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, waters flowers in expectation for good business during forthcoming Lunar New Year holidays; Wang Wenfeng (right) checks rice seedlings with a farmer in suburban Yiwu. After college graduation many young people in Zhejiang are choosing to go back to their villages; A bird's eye view of Yiwu, a prosperous city in East China's Zhejiang province; Ji Wengang, 29, is one of thousands of college graduates trying to swap urban hukou for their former rural status in Yiwu. The benefits of rural hukou are free house sites and yearly subsidies, while in cities the prices of housing and land continue to rise sharply. Gao Erqiang / China Daily