Xiaogang discovers fresh growth drivers

With the historic move to subdivide common farmland into family plots in 1978 - after the collectivized farming policy had been in force for 20 years - the people of Xiaogang village, in eastern China's Anhui province, became the first in the country to get rid of starvation, setting a milestone for China's rural reform.

However, the village later lagged other villages, particularly along the east coast, that turned to industrialization for further growth.

To catch up, Xiaogang began to change for the better.