River protection rules cut into incomes
Clockwise from top: Rafts scattered at a harbor in Xingping township, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, last week; Yang Guihua, used to be a fisherman, now makes money by charging tourists to be photographed with his two cormorants; Zhao Ping, a fisherman in Xingping township, rafts on the river trying to pick up tourists when he's not fishing. Huo Yan / China Daily |
NANNING - The government is pledging to compensate residents along one of China's most scenic rivers whose livelihoods have been affected by new rules to protect the waterway.
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