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The market town of Shaxi has been restored with funds from the World Monuments Fund and its historic centre now looks almost as it did hundreds of years ago.

Under the government’s “Road to Every Village” project, some of the few remaining stretches of the Ancient Tea Horse Road’s original stone roads, laid in the 1600s, are being preserved including the 20km stretch from Ninger to Mahei. Most of the stones were carted away by villagers once the roads fell into disuse in the 1970s.