Chicken-blood jade dealers feather nests
Traders in the small township of Sanmen are cashing in on a recently discovered rare natural resource that's boosting incomes and changing lives. Huo Yan and Wang Xiaodong report from Guilin in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Like many of his fellow villagers in the mountain township of Sanmen, Zhou Yunyao used to migrate to bigger cities to undertake a range of jobs, such as vehicle maintenance, to raise his standard of living.
That's no longer the case, though. Fortune smiled on Zhou in 2012, when he returned to his hometown in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region from nearby Guilin city and opened a shop selling souvenirs made from chicken-blood jade, a type of stone that's predominantly red in color and was only discovered in the area in recent years.
