Poor Guizhou village grows stronger after storm

The residents of a once poor and underdeveloped region of Guizhou province are looking forward to the upcoming 19th CPC National Congress, as they say it will herald further developments in the country over the next five years that will help them improve their lives.

Tangyue, a village in Anshun, used to be the home of many "empty-nest" elders and children, since adults often had to travel for jobs in the coastal cities of southeast China as migrant workers. But a strong rainstorm in 2014 changed that.

"The village was severely damaged by floodwaters, and over 1,000 adults who had left to work elsewhere rushed back to rebuild their houses," Zuo Wenxue, the village's Party chief, told China Daily recently.