Bumpy road out of poverty for isolated corner of Yunnan

Feng Weixiang spent two days traveling to Beijing from his home in a remote corner of southwest China's Yunnan province. The journey was one of the longest for the more than 2,000 members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, who have gathered in Beijing for the political advisory body's annual session.

Feng said the trip could have taken ten times longer.

The 45-year-old is a Nu ethnic, whose small community lives in the far-flung Gongshan Drung-Nu Autonomous County in Yunnan. There, between lofty mountains and deep valleys, dwell some of China's smallest ethnic groups.