A look at Xiaogang faces
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Chef Yan Deshuang poses with his wok and ladle in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province. Many locals who used to migrate to find work outside Xiaogang are coming back to start up their own business in their hometown village. Known as the birthplace of China's rural reforms, Xiaogang Village is where China's policy of Reform and Opening Up first started in 1978. Forty years later, people in Xiaogang, through hard work and their own rural wisdom, have carved out a much better life for themselves over the past four decades. [Photo: China Plus/Li Jin]