Profile: Former fisherman leads village to prosperity

HAIKOU, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- At 18, Wang Shumao, a villager from China's southern island province of Hainan, became a skillful fisherman, but little did he know then that he would become a village leader in the years to come.

Born in the village of Tanmen on the east coast of Hainan in 1956, Wang spent a large part of his life sailing and fishing in the South China Sea, which locals call the "Ancestor Sea" for the