Pearl farming helps lift seaside village out of poverty in Guangdong

Pearl farming has helped to lift a seaside village out of poverty in South China's Guangdong province.

Nanzhu, or south pearl in English, refers to the pearls produced in the Beibu Gulf off the coast of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and Leizhou peninsula of Zhanjiang in Guangdong.

"We're going for quality over quantity, for the high-end Nanzhu," said He Debian who founded Zunding Pearl Co Ltd in Liusha village on the Leizhou peninsula in 2017.