Homestays create fresh harmony on the island of singing stones

A tourism boom is raising living standards for residents of a granite outcrop off the coast of Southeast China. Zhang Yi reports from Pingtan, Fujian provinces.

"The island grows no grass, but stones. Sand is everywhere. Houses look like forts."

This ancient folk saying from Pingtan, an island county in Fujian province, bears witness to the area's desolate state in days gone by.