Resettlements give rural kids advantages of modern urban life

For Xu Yanli and her family, moving to a nearby newly built apartment building with all the modern conveniences has been far removed from the mud-brick house she grew up in a remote village in Southwest China's Yunnan province.

Xu said that she'd never imagined that her children would one day be learning chess and reciting Tang Dynasty (618-907) poems in bright city classrooms, or that she herself would work in a stationery shop near her home.

Since moving to Fuxing Jiayuan, a large resettlement community in Xuanwei city, in 2020, Xu said her life has changed dramatically. The city, with a population of 1.15 million people, has several similar resettled rural communities and neighborhoods, enabling them to benefit from better infrastructure, education, connectivity and the opportunities that follow.