Heart of the Dragon: Living (Part 1)

Explores the lives of the peasants who constitute more than 80 per cent of China's one billion inhabitants. Reveals their lives as seen by a camera crew who spent a month in the village of Maoping in Zhejiang province, getting to know the inhabitants and their way of life. Follows, in particular, the day-to-day life of one village family as they tend their own private plot and the land allocated to them by the state under the new "responsibility" system.