Cook returns home to serve up success

Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress, China Daily sent six reporters to villages nationwide to live for a month and take a look at how people are working to ensure that China's poverty eradication plan succeeds.

Yang Yuqiang, who had left his hometown to work as a cook for seven years, never imagined that one day he could return to open his own restaurant in his home village, which has been transformed into a tourist site.

"During the three-day Labor Day holiday, my wife and I were kept busy catering to tourists," Yang, a 26-year-old from Huaqiao, Gansu province, said excitedly. "I am planning to employ five or six people to help me and my wife if the business remains good."