Countryside charm

Guizhou's bucolic scenery offers a pleasant escape for harried city dwellers and an economic lifeline for local communities, Zeng Jun reports.

Like most women from the mountainous Nahui village who work the farmland in Southwest China's Guizhou province, Yang Chaozhen, 60, looks much older than her age.

Yang lives with her husband while her children and grandchildren work in Guangdong province.