Far-flung face of poverty fight

In the nearby Pukawang community on the banks of the glistening Pukawang tributary river, Pu Xinhua helps his parents run a guesthouse as part of a newly developed ecological tourism mountain chalet site supported by the local government. They also rent out a two-bedroom hut opposite their house to a company, which pays them 5,000 yuan a year.

"We moved from the mountains in 2013, when most of the buildings were completed," said Pu, 21. Their annual income is about 26,000 yuan, supplemented by crops, up from about 2,000 yuan before the site was set up, Pu said.

"We never had all of this. Our lives will continue to improve," he said.

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