Cities hold key to solving rural problems

First, a woman from Shanghai caused an uproar after she posted online about her experience of accompanying her boyfriend to his hometown in a poor village in Central China's Jiangxi province during the Spring Festival.

She said in a post that she was "deeply shocked" by how poor his family is. Their relations came to a sudden end as she decided to return to Shanghai the same night.

Then a reporter with Caijing, a business magazine, lamented in an article the moral deterioration he found in his hometown, a small village in Northeast China, when he returned during the holiday.