As the plane approached Arxan county, bleary-eyed passengers began to lavishly praise the place they had yet to set foot in. Craning their necks to look out of the window, many marveled at the greenery.
East or west, home is best. Zhang Yinquan, a 35-year-old who runs a post office in his hometown of Xihe in the south of Henan province, has a profound understanding of this proverb. For him, home has not only comforted his restless soul, but also helped unlock his good fortune.
Editor's Note: Oct 17 is China's National Poverty Relief Day. China Daily explores four examples of success stories from around the country.
As a mountainous province, Guizhou is making full use of its few flat areas of land, or baqu, to develop economic crops while decreasing traditional crops like corn in an effort to adjust the local agricultural structure to make rural villagers wealthier as soon as possible.
Nanling is a village in Shenzhen well-known these days for its affluence, but it used to be known for the opposite.
As Xiang Guangquan unloads imported seafood from a boat at the Dongxing border trade area in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, he is finally seeing hope in his life.
Zheng Xinyan, a 5-year-old girl from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, earns money more quickly than her father by modeling clothes and posing for photos for online retailers. She can earn about 200 yuan ($28) per photo and model dozens of outfits a day, which far outstrips her father's earning power.
Wang Jing, 30-year-old homemaker from Handan, Hebei province
For decades, water has been both a curse and blessing for rice farmers in low-lying villages in Central China's Hubei province. While an intricate web of waterways provides sufficient irrigation for crops, constant flooding makes life precarious for local villagers.
JINAN - As a message alert buzzes on his computer, Zhang Xiaohui, a farmer from Shandong province, sits in front of the camera with a bowl of cooked corn in his hands.
With its breathtaking snowcapped mountains and strong Buddhist culture, Nepal is recovering from the devastating 2015 earthquake and embracing more Chinese travelers, according to travel agencies.
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