By breeding quail, Luo managed to emerge from poverty and earned over 70,000 yuan with his wife last year.

Chu Dequan, head of the Shangang's poverty alleviation professional team, said breeding quails has brought monthly incomes ranging from 60,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan to local villagers, while pig farming has helped local people earn about 300,000 yuan in the first half of 2020.

"We want no trade war with anyone, but if our hands are forced, we will not quail nor recoil from it," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying.