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Jang Dong tucked inside the remote mountains of southwestern China.
It is the last Chinese cave village.
18 families live here and they're only access to the outside world.
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The Villagers have been living the same lifestyle for over 70 years.
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Look at me.
No English.
I I thought I was a child in a ghetto.
Sanity.
The nearest primary school is more than two hours away.
Did you or did you go to the loo?
Jang Dong was initially created by the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China as a hideaway during times of war.
After the Chinese civil war ended in 1949 the Villagers stayed.
But because they have little access to the outside world, it continues to be one of the poorest villages in China.
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The A Houses here are made with bamboo and wood.
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The village did not get electricity until the early two thousands when a tourist from Minnesota discovered the cave while hiking and donated money to help modernize the village the cave became well known among hikers in the area, and the village received a sudden spike in tourists.
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Uh, e But the flow of tourists didn't last long because the location was too remote for most people.
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Uh, now, the local government is focused on trying to get these Villagers to move out as part of a country wide push to eliminate poverty.
By the end of 2020 Guizhou Province has moved close to two million people living below the poverty line to urban areas.
But the villages here have been reluctant to wish requirement peerages.
Do you, you know, or your home to just three?
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And when she got into him, they're also worried about losing the Onley home.
They know you don't need to.
How you going to use a shopping tackle?
It's like change the way you write a shopping cart.
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You know, this is kind of a mother sas in my head And you guys more than anything, these people want better access to the outside world.
Do you think you guys got found?
There was.
Do you guys, uh, the father embassy now?
But the local government says it can't build another road because the village is located inside a national park.
The village of Jang Dong continues to struggle, isolated from the rest of the world.