-- Abuluoha Village was once isolated for treating leprosy patients in the 1960s. With a population of merely 253 people, Abuluoha had long suffered from poverty and poor transport infrastructure due to the rugged mountainous terrain.

-- It was the country's last administrative village with the proper conditions to be linked with a paved road.

-- As part of the nationwide anti-poverty efforts, Abuluoha village started to build the road one year ago. On June 30, all the construction work was completed and the road officially opened to traffic.

by Xinhua writes Hui Xiaoyong, Dong Xiaohong, Hu Xu and Xia Xiao

CHENGDU, July 5 -- When residents in mountainous Abuluoha village saw a minibus drive along their solitary and newly opened paved road and pull into a driveway, rapturous singing reverberated through the surrounding mountains.

Aerial photo taken on June 30, 2020 shows a car driving on the newly built road in Abuluoha Village, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

Located deep in a valley in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the village was once an isolated treatment center for local leprosy patients in Butuo County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the 1960s. Years after the disease had been eliminated in the area, Abuluoha became an administrative village in 2007.

With a population of merely 253 people, Abuluoha had long suffered from poverty and poor transport infrastructure due to the rugged mountainous terrain.