Chili growing heats up pace of regional economic development

With credit support, chilies are heating up the economic development of an impoverished county in Northwest China.

Residents of Luonan county, in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, have always found it hard to make a living due to the county's remote location and infertile land. But in 2016, Ma Huifeng, who finished school sponsored by local farmers, found a way to help the county out - growing chilies.

He discovered the county's climate was ideal for growing pod peppers and he decided to promote pepper cultivation among local farmers.