The tug out of poverty

An aerial view of Datou village in Lyuchun county, Yunnan province, on March 26. JIANG WENYAO/XINHUA

On May 16, the Yunnan Poverty Alleviation Office announced that Lyuchun was one of 31 counties that had been removed from its list of poverty-stricken counties.

In the mountainous county, the remote Datou village, with 168 people from the Lahu ethnic group, was once considered one of the poorest.