Spring Festival revitalizes a village in Anhui province

In 2017 I spent more than a month in Guhe, a poverty-stricken village in Fuyang's Linquan county, to see how officials and villagers had been doing on poverty relief.

Though the village has a registered population of more than 5,000, I saw only a limited number of people staying home - mostly elderly, and kids who are often called left-behind children.

In stark contrast to the shabby brick-tile houses of poverty-stricken villagers, large single-family homes, often two to four stories tall, are everywhere in the village. Many homes are bigger than 500 square meters. However, most of the houses in the village had their doors locked during the entire period I was there.