Guo Yusheng, a middle-aged farmer in Huangyuan County of Northwest China's Qinghai Provomce,earned some 100 yuan(US$12) in 2000 by selling wheat he had harvested, Last year, he earned nearly 100,000 yuan (US$12,092) by selling the cattle and sheep he raised."The income gap between growing crops and raising livestock has propelled many of my neighbors to shift their livelihood from farmland to the stockyard," Gou says.He started raising livestock in 2001 when only six out of the 300 households in his village were engaged in the same business.