State-funded tourism projects are helping the residents of an underdeveloped village built on an 800-meter-high cliff in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province embark on a path to prosperity.
Situated at an altitude of 1,600 meters, the “Cliff Village”, formerly known as Atulie’er Village, in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Zhaojue County of Sichuan once required its residents to climb a vertical cliff using a 218-step vine ladder to reach their cliff-high adobe homes.
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