Road trips a route to prosperity

The growing number of travelers who drive through Xinjiang is providing new poverty-alleviation opportunities to villagers. Yang Feiyue reports.

The trend in which more Chinese travelers are driving to their destinations is paving the way for poverty alleviation in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Two road-trip routes in the region were recently listed among western China's top-10 driving itineraries by the China National Tourism Administration and the State Council's Poverty Relief Office.