Villagers living the high life on the road to prosperity

Living standards are rising for people in a mountainous region of Southwest China after their remote settlements were connected to the outside world, as Xin Wen reports from the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province.

Lan Guohua used to plant corn and potatoes in Laoying, a village that sits at an elevation of 2,500 meters in Xiaojin county, Sichuan province.

At the age of 55, he never expected that he could double his income by raising yaks, but that's what happened after the local government built a road to connect the isolated settlement with the outside world.