City girl seeds scents of hope in remote region

GUANGZHOU - Hong Kong-born Annie Leung still remembers her first visit to the remote mountains of Southwest China's Guizhou province in 2017, and the memories of the wild leeks covering the rolling hills remain fresh in her mind.

"At that moment, it felt like I was in a fairy tale," Leung recalls.

Leung's first trip was not for leisure, but instead to develop business opportunities to help the poverty-stricken inhabitants of Wumeng Mountain, Hezhang county, where finding work in big cities had long been the only way out of hardship for local villagers.