Green development sows seeds of prosperity

Residents of isolated communities in the Dabie Mountain range are seeing incomes rise as agribusiness flourishes. Hou Liqiang reports from Xinxian, Henan, and Yuexi, Anhui.

For more than a decade, Cen Xinshun worked as a martial arts teacher in private schools outside of his isolated home village.

When he left in 1995, he was not alone; for decades, residents of Yangtudun in Xinxian county, Henan province, had made efforts to leave the mountain-encompassed village in search of better opportunities in the outside world.