THEN VS NOW: Meet the witnesses to a rural metamorphosis in SW China

Any negligence and carelessness would result in the potential risk of sliding down the cliff. It took four hours for an adult to go out, therefore many villagers have never walked out of the mountain in 58 years since the village was founded.

When a villager went out to sell sheep, he had to tie the sheep to his waist, and use his hands and feet to slip across the river with the rope. This was a true portrayal of villagers' life a few years ago.

Abuloha village was listed as an extremely poor village in 2013.