An integrated approach

Wang and his team, who have put their hearts and souls into the village's development, have set up a system of values that are encouraged around the community, according to Chen.

On the mountain, with strong winds, television receivers are easily blown down. As it's hard to reach a maintenance man, villager Diri Luoqu learned to install and repair them. He has offered to do the work for free for more than 40 neighboring families this year alone.

As early as in 2005, Wang joined the project to build an electrical grid for the village. The rural village finally got switched on in 2007 thanks to the State-owned enterprise that invested 140 million yuan on the prefecture-level project to guarantee electricity access for rural people.

When Wang took over the job at the village in 2016, his wife was teaching at a village school away from home.

However, his sick mother, in her 70s, was determined to take care of their little children and managed to persuade her son to take on the challenge.

In 1964, she visited Beijing to perform at the Great Hall of the People on behalf of the prefecture and met Chairman Mao Zedong. She believes it's thanks to the Party that Liangshan people are able to have a better life.

Fifty-three years later, it was her son's turn to step into that same venerated hall and share his knowledge of poverty alleviation. He thinks it's the sense of responsibility that makes him stand out.

Having blended into the village, Wang holds the view that he's doing a job with the villagers on an equal footing, rather than directing a large group of people in a program.

With two months left of his second term, his mind is abuzz with tasks yet to be done, like transplanting herbs, helping villagers learn to keep bees and carrying forward the village's tourism resource development.