Quote Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker View Post
Again, not knowing the back story, in America, if you want a road to connect two points you contact your county or state and put in a request then wait for the bureaucracy to decide if it's necessary then wait for the approval, funding then scheduling etc... and maybe in 2 or 3 years they might start construction. Where these people live they hand cut the route and prepare the bed with (probably) self made hand tools, make the baskets and slings, find rocks nearby and have, most likely, the men break them into smaller rocks and have some of them load those hand made baskets while the women haul them to the road bed. After they get the initial rock down, they collect the smaller rocks and finer dust with the same baskets and start all over covering the large rocks. This project could likely be done in a few months and, while the quality might not be comparable, the road would function perfectly for their purpose and the cost would be a small fraction of a road in a Western country. Initial infrastructure like this might well lead to their small village becoming a small town then city and who knows from there! Progress is progress regardless of the level of technology. It's how it all started thousands of years ago.
There is a similar process there to get things done. It has to get approval. But then people move.
As for mechanisation. You would not believe what I have seen there for concentration of high hoes and earth moving equipment. This pic is very rural China. And even there people are very knowledgeable of what is available. The industrial cities are employment centers for people in villages just like this one.

China is a country of amazing things when you get to visit it. The people are kind. The growth and advancement is astonishing. There is more high speed rail there than in the entire world combined. More maglev trains than Germany and Japan combined. It's the most capitalist mentality place I have ever worked in. What we get fed on the media here in North America is not exactly what you get to see and experience on the ground over there.