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Hostel owner Chen Lin takes care of a potted plant at her hostel in Nanyuanling Village of Wuyishan, southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 18, 2019. The post-1990s couple Chen Fei and Chen Lin are pioneers in starting homestay tourism in Nanyuanling Village, who opened a tea-themed hostel in November of 2017 and sold Wuyi Mountain tea products at the same time. So far, their hostel has received nearly 10,000 tourists home and abroad and earned them over 500,000 yuan (about 74,000 U.S. dollars). Now the number of homestay inns in Nanyuanling has increased to 140, while the village's tourism revenue of 2018 reached 35.75 million yuan (5.3 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)
