Honey helps Guangdong village beat poverty

Peng Zishun, who made a fortune in the steel business in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, after arriving there in 1987, started a tourism development company in his relatively poor home village of Luodong in Luhe county, Shanwei, Guangdong, in late 2015.

"I wanted my villagers to get richer. There was a man living next door, 26 years old, who could not find a wife because of poverty at the time," said Peng, who is now Party secretary of the village.

Tourism was chosen because of the natural scenery in the lush mountains surrounding the village, as well as its stream and the thousands of plum trees that bloom there in January.