Making the Right Choice

Instead of working and living in a modern city, Yang Ning, who graduated from college in 2010, took a bold choice to return to her home village in Rongshui County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China.

The village, Jiangmen, was poverty stricken at the time, with few modern transportation facilities. Yang and fellow villagers established a business of rice and watermelon cultivation and had lifted the village out of poverty by 2020. Over the last two years, she has been aiming to use livestock breeding and processing to raise incomes.

Now the 30-something secretary of the village’s Party branch is trusted with a new position. She