Tibetan craftsmen turn Yunnan village into pottery hub

Many travelers to Shangri-La, a county-level city in Southwest China's Yunnan province, will likely pass Tangdui village in Nixi township without paying much attention to it.

After all, there's so much to see - British author James Hilton's fictional place of Shangri-La in his 1930s' novel Lost Horizon, is said to have been inspired by the city.

Nevertheless, Tadrin Phuntsok, a 45-year-old resident of Tangdui who runs a roadside store that sells black pottery works such as pots, has reasons for optimism.