A new road sets to break the hardship of the Derung people, who will no longer have to suffer a long bumpy journey when leaving Dulongjiang in northern Yunnan province. It is a community that had been shut off for six months of the year when the existing dirt road became impassible in winter.
China Daily's Hu Yongqi went to investigate.
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Written by Hu Yongqi
Photographs: Wang Jing
Editor: D J Clark
Producer: Flora Yue