Xi's idea of 20 years ago changing farmers' lives

Five years ago, Hai Guobao's life was difficult, but not because his family did not work hard.

Generations of the family had farmed mountainous land in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.

There, summer is arid, yet rainfall is excessive during autumn harvests. Yields were decided virtually by fate, locals say, after they had invested a whole year's worth of labor.