Livestock revolution lifts living standards

In the 1990s, Mo Xiaohui was one of millions of migrant workers in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, the front line of reform and opening-up at the time.

The 44-year-old now raises more than 300 cows in her home village of Baqiao in the mountainous Qianxinan Buyi and Miao autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province.

In 1992, at age 18, she moved to Shenzhen in search of work. She stayed there for five years, during which time she married a man named Zhou Guangqiang, also a Qianxinan native, and had four children.