This column is part of an ongoing series, originally published by McKinsey & Company, about how entrepreneurs are making a societal impact around the world. In 2010 I set out to build a sheep farm on ...

The nomads of Phala reside 200 miles west of Lhasa on Tibet 's cold remote "northern plateau" at altitudes between 15,000-16,500 feet. As they have done for thousands of years, these nomads subsist by ...

Innovative measures are raising living standards in an isolated community on the edge of a desert. Li Lei reports from Beijing, with Hu Dongmei in Yanchi county, Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Yin ...