Liu Qiaoxiu, a 78-year-old villager, packs Chinese prickly ash in Dachang Village of Yuxian County, north China's Shanxi Province, Aug. 11, 2015. Liu Qiaoxiu said that her local speciality products sold well with the increasing number of tourists in recent year. According to the statistics of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the number of unincorporated villages in China decreased from 4.2 million in 1984 to 2.67 million in 2012, at a rate of 55,000 per year. Protection of traditional villages is needed and ongoing through tapping cultural resources and developing tourism. (Photo: Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
