Cross-cultural relationships boost mutual understanding

A loving family and rising living standards are standouts for Ugandan national in China. Yan Dongjie reports from Beijing, with Shi Baoyin in Luoyang, Henan.

August is the peppercorn harvest season in China.

In a vast field covered by the plant at a village in the central province of Henan, where foreigners are a rarity, a woman from Uganda was picking the crop, leaving passersby wondering why she was working there.

Speaking in fluent Henan dialect, Nabuliya shared anecdotes of her eight years in Luoyang city's Mengjin district with her two sons and her husband.