A Beautiful Mountain Village

From 1995 to 2015, rural Northeast China underwent enormous changes, including the return of farmland to forests, the abolition of agricultural taxes, and the establishment of new-era production cooperatives.

Amid this tide of change, the heroine, Chen Xiuli, used her own hands and ingenuity to sell medicinal herbs and partner with the government to establish a wild-vegetable processing plant, bringing Northeast China's mountain delicacies to the world. Later, riding the wave of the government's efforts to build a pharmaceutical hub, Chen Xiuli adapted to the changing times and founded her own Chinese medicine processing plant. By pooling local resources, she forged a path to prosperity that suited her company's growth while benefiting the local rural economy.