Fighting back with venom

As China aims to eradicate poverty, residents of a rural pocket in the country's south breed scorpions for livelihood support

Amid the green vegetation on the outskirts of a small town in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, a dirt track leads to a village in a valley, molded in karst landscape.

The Yao ethnic group is the dominant population in Nongjing and a few neighboring villages that are three hours or so by road from the autonomous region's capital Nanning. And while southern China is largely associated with affluence, some of its rural pockets have yet to ascend the development graph.