'A road on the cliff'

By Tan Yingzi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-11-02 19:31

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Villagers build a road on the cliff by themselves. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Xiazhuang village in Wushan county, southwest China's Chongqing has been locked in the mountains for generations, isolated and impoverished. To create a better future, the villagers started to build a road by themselves in 1997. Most of the time, they hung from the cliff and dug by hand. Six got killed during the construction of the 8-km-long road.

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