Heri Village, Zeku County, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province, is known as the hometown to the stone carving art, with its local Tibetan herders engaged in the business for almost 100 years.



In 2005, 100 households of Tibetan herders moved out of the Heri Mountain,where their ancestors lived for generations, in order to protect the ecological environment and bid farewell to their nomadic life.

Now, all the families in Heri Ecological Migrants' Village are engaged in the stone-carving business. Except for some scriptures for religious use, most of their works are going to China's major cities.

The ecological migrants of the village have since embarked on the road to prosperity, with their annual per-capita income rising to 2,400 yuan RMB (351 U.S. dollars) from less than 1,000 yuan RMB (146 dollars) in 2005.