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At Ta’er Monastery, butter becomes a temporary sculpture. In the Hehuang valleys, painted clay, embroidery and temple murals hold other kinds of time. Northward, Qinghai Lake is crossed by fish and birds; westward, salt works and telescopes bring two different kinds of work to the Qaidam Basin. Farther south, painters, carvers, herders and river patrols bring the headwaters into view through particular places and tasks. Follow the material, the water or the work: each route opens another Qinghai.

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Daeo Village: Pastoral Work and County Employment

A Qinghai News report follows one eleven-person household in Daeo Village, where livestock raising and wage work in the county seat contributed to 2025 income.

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Original editorial diagram of one eleven-person Daeo household’s reported 2025 economy: livestock and county employment contributed to 113,800 yuan in annual income. It is not a photograph of the family or an income breakdown.
Original editorial diagram of one eleven-person Daeo household’s reported 2025 economy: livestock and county employment contributed to 113,800 yuan in annual income. It is not a photograph of the family or an income breakdown.

Two sources of household income

A Qinghai News report published in March 2026 visits the fourth group of Daeo Village, Jieduo Township, in Zadoi County. It profiles an eleven-person household and reports that the family earned 113,800 yuan in 2025 from livestock raising and wages earned by younger family members working in the county seat. The article places the household’s income within a wider county effort to develop ecological animal husbandry.

The detail gives the account its scale: pasture-based work remains part of the family economy, while paid work in the county seat adds another stream of income. It is one household’s reported situation in a particular year.

Animal care and traceable products

The report describes the family selling its beef and mutton through a cooperative. It also mentions county support around livestock production, including cultivated fodder, insurance, disease prevention and services for using manure as a resource. The household’s cattle wear ear tags with traceability functions, which the article connects to the market appeal of the family’s products.

These details put family income alongside the systems that support animal raising: winter fodder, risk coverage, veterinary prevention, cooperative marketing and product identification. The account moves between one household and the county programs around it, showing how pastoral work and nearby employment both enter the family’s annual finances.

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  1. Original editorial diagram of one eleven-person Daeo household’s reported 2025 economy: livestock and county employment contributed to 113,800 yuan in annual income. It is not a photograph of the family or an income breakdown.© 2026 IFreeing · Rights information Photo source ↗ Proportionally resized and converted to WebP without cropping. No objects were added, removed or reconstructed.