Cleanup program helps lake become thriving tourist hub

The rejuvenation of North China's largest freshwater body has seen local living standards rise. Zhao Ruixue reports from Weishan county, Shandong.

With its neat rows of houses, wide, clean roads and spacious squares, there is little in Aihu, a village in the eastern province of Shandong, to remind older residents of life during their childhoods.

"Tremendous changes have taken place in our village; the bumpy mud roads have been replaced with wide, sealed ones, and electricity and the internet are available all the time. When I was a child, I never expected that one day I would have such a modern, convenient life," said Hu Qianle, a resident of Aihu in Weishan county, Jining. The village's name means "Love the lake".