Making a living in one's hometown was practically impossible for much of rural China, prompting the massive migration of villagers and farmers to cities in search of employment. Now, thanks to United Nations Development Programme and its Chinese government partners,some villagers are discovering economic opportunities where they least expected them.

Liu Zehua proudly displayed the increased output from his mushroom field in Ji County, Tianjin. Liu has good reason to be pleased. He increased his harvest by 20 per cent and raised his annual income from 6,000 yuan (USD 882), to 30,000 yuan (USD 4,412) he said. But it has not always been this way for small-scale farmers in China.

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