Shenshan Village, located in Jinggangshan City, south China’s Jiangxi Province, has gradually found its own tourism model based on its revolutionary history. Peng Xiaying, a villager of Shenshan, told us her story of poverty alleviation through tourism.
Jinggangshan is the mountain of revolution, where Chairman Mao Zedong fought against the enemy. The average annual disposable income per villager was less than 2,300 yuan before 2014. As the village developed, the tourists began to…