BIZCHINA / Biz Media Digest

Tourism: Rural Chinese get rich
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-06 14:39

Xiong Shiying, in her early 40s, never dreamed that her remote village would become a hot tourist spot and her poor family could become rich.

Flourishing rural tourism in recent years has helped her family escape poverty, along with 170 other households in Nanhua Village of Miao minority in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

Her annual family income has soared from 200 U.S. dollars eight years ago to nearly 4,000 U.S. dollars.


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