"...where the Jade River runs through, lies a poor, mud-covered village known as the Village of Fruitless Mountain, where the protagonist, Minli lives."
"The Jade Dragon reunites with one of her children, Dragon, and transforms Fruitless Mountain to Fruitful Mountain. Because of Minli's sacrifice to help a friend, she and her family receive everything they could ever have hoped for."
ANSWER → So they go from poverty to prosperity. Once they were a poor village, and now have everything they wished for. They are the same because the people and the village itself have not changed, but different because of the way they now live.
