Chinese village perched on a cliff to open up to brave new world as public turns on the heat
Plan to build a scenic road in the works for better accessibility to remote hilly hamlet
The government of Liangzhou prefecture in southwest Sichuan province has succumbed to the public pressure and decided to build a steel staircase for a village located on a cliff following media reports that villagers have to climb 17 rattan staircases to get to their houses in the hilly and risky terrain, which earlier some said had claimed seven lives.
Lin Shucheng, the Communist Party chief of the prefecture, told the Beijing News that the government would construct the steel staircase as a stopgap arrangement before it worked out a permanent solution.
The village, located at 1,400 metres above sea level in Zhaojue county, has 72 households and its only mode of communication with the outside world is the rattan staircases.