Moving away from the mountains to find prosperity in cities

One of the largest relocation programs in modern China's history is now underway - 1.3 million people in the country's most poverty-stricken province, Guizhou, will be moved from mountainous areas to nearby townships by 2020.

"In front of my home is a cliff and behind it is a mountain," says Xiong Shiguo, standing in his new 3-bedroom apartment, as describes his old home in Ganzishu village in the mountains, 120 km north of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province.

After a decade of double-digit regional growth, people living in Guizhou's cities - who now make up 42 percent of the province's total 35 million residents - are economically better off.