Gun Yuanli(L) poses with his cousin Jia Wangla for a photo at Basha Village in Congjiang County, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Aug. 31, 2016. Jia now teaches in the village’s primary school after he graduated from a university in Guizhou province. Jia has been a role model for Gun for a long time. The village has 505 households and 2548 residents, and has four university students. Gun, 19, has become the first student from the village, where people lead a life virtually untouched by modernization, to be admitted to a key national university, Minzu University of China in Beijing. (Photo: China News Service/Liang Guangyuan)
