During last year's winter Dongzai festival for meat stocking, between late November and early December, Baht and her husband invited family members, neighbors and friends to gather together.

For Baht's youngest daughter Kursunak, who is studying at Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi, capital of the autonomous region, it is an important family event that she couldn't miss and she joins the party via her smartphone.

To let her daughter feel at home, Baht sends home-cooked beef and other food to the school.