105-year-old comes true, comes out of the village for the first time

This was defeated thanks to a initiative by local municipalities against poverty.

Pu Ertai belongs to a very small ethnic group in China called Dulong.

The Dulongs live mainly in the remote mountains along the Dulonggiang River Valley.

She was born in 1914 but had never traveled outside the village, since the area is too deep for roads and poverty is too high. /tch