Road to change

Scenes from Rooting, a documentary showing the lives of people in Shawa village, located deep in the mountains of Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province. In 2017, when Po Luo, a resident of Shawa village in the mountainous Fugong county, Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, found out that his refrigerator had problems, no technician was able to visit his home. Produced by the publicity department of the Communist Party of China Yunnan Provincial Committee, China Agricultural Film and Television Center and Yunnan Media Group, the film was released nationwide on Thursday. Ning Qiwen, director of China Agricultural Film and Television Center, says: "Against the backdrop of China's poverty alleviation efforts, the film shows the touching story of how a small village of the Nu ethnic group got rid of poverty and changed its destiny.