Ji Xue, from a family who relocated from their remote home in the mountains to a modern community as part of the poverty alleviation efforts five years ago, walks with her family in Anshun, Guizhou province, in December. YANG WENBIN/XINHUA At a small plantation on the northern edge of the Himalaya Mountains range in the Xizang autonomous region, lingzhi mushrooms …
Freshly harvested lingzhi mushrooms are neatly arranged on shelves to be dried for market. In a small plantation on the northern rims of the Himalayas in Xizang autonomous region, visitors can witness nearly every stage of cultivating lingzhi mushrooms, a medicinal fungus traditionally harvested from the wild. Those are the sights at the Red Sun Family Farm in Manling, Xizang's …