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BETTER LIFE: yang Fengyun, a Hancunhe villager, has improved her family's income by renting rooms in her villas to visitors

Many visitors come to Hancunhe in Fangshan District of suburban Beijing, a village famous for its achievements in new countryside construction. To better observe local lives and construction achievements, many stay with local families. Thirty-one families in the village provide accommodations for 200-300 visitors each day, said Zhang Yu, a guide at the Beijing Hancunhe Tourism Development Co.

Yang Fengyun, 44, and her husband and daughter are one of the 31 families in the village that open their homes to tourists. When Yang got married 20 years ago, her family of four lived in a four-room adobe house that was less than 100 square meters large.

"The only electrical appliance in the house was a radio," Yang told Beijing Review.

At that time, Yang's family cultivated about 0.15 hectares of farmland, with its annual yield just enough to ...

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