The Zhupeng village is located in the mountainous Weimo township in southeast Yunnan’s Yanshan County. With rugged land features, the village lacks sound transportation facilities, and villagers lived in poverty. As a result, most of the young and mid-aged chose to be migrant workers, leaving behind children and the elderly.

Since 2010, a total of 60 families in Zhupeng village have moved to better places on their own, but 36 families were too poor to resettle themselves. Seeing the dilemma, the Yanshan management helped them in moving to a new resettlement site, rooting out the poverty that plagued the 36 families for generations. 

Now, the Zhupeng villagers have resettled at the new homes in Tanfang, the biggest resettlement site for poverty alleviation in Yanshan. Here, the four ethnic groups of the Han, Zhuang, Yi and Miao are living together to form a more diverse community. 

Source: Yunnan Daily; trans-editing by Wang Shixue and Li Yushuangyue