Rail breakthrough a dream come true

When the first railway in the mountains of Dangchang county, Gansu province, opened on Monday, Yang Ga'nyu was there to witness a dream come true.

She had traveled more than 2,700 kilometers from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to her hometown with her youngest daughter, Li Youxia.

Yang, born in 1968, moved to Xinjiang in 1996 with her husband and two daughters to escape extreme poverty.