Village recovers after flood; many lifted out of poverty

Tourism has invigorated the outlying area - Hongqi village - in Antu county, Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture in Jilin province, which has been poverty-stricken for years.

About 150 kilometers from Changbai Mountain, Hongqi is home to a Korean ethnic group, whose people account for more than 80 percent of the population.

According to An Xuebin, the county official over culture and historical research, the village was the first in Yanbian to develop folklore tourism in the 1980s, on top of its traditional income source - planting rice.