DRUMMING UP A NEW BEAT

正A summer camp broadens the horizons of rural children It took Li Shang,a percussionist from Beijing,nearly15 hours to reach Weiziba,a village in Gansu Province,on July 21.Local transportation from the airport in the provincial capital to the village,at an altitude of 2,450 meters,remains inconvenient,but Li and his colleagues didn't seem to be bothered.     

Reform Achievements Shared

THE small village of Yonglian has transformed over the past40 years from a barren mud flat too insignificant to appear on the Jiangsu Province map to a national culturally-developed village.In2013,the total village revenue stood at RMB 110 million,and local residents’per capita net income at RMB 32,937.Yonglian villagers enjoy a life of peace and prosperity.Yangtze River Shoal Dwellings Senior citizen Zhang Yuqin came to live in Yonglian Village in the 1970s.At that time it was known as Brigade 23 of Nanfeng Commune in Shazhou County.     

CRADLE OF CHANGE

正A village looks back on its transformation after pioneering targeted poverty alleviation By Yuan YuanIt is hard to find any"old"photo of Yang Chaowen's village as people living there were too poor in the past to buy a camera.By old,Yang means the days before2000.Yang is from Shibadong a village in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan Province,central China,where the     

Conserving Lusheng Cadences

PAIKA is a rural community of the Miao ethnic minority in hilly Guizhou Province.In the local language this name refers to a mountain village that produces the Lusheng,a reed instrument.This village of about 100 households has been known around the province for its Lusheng production for the past five generations or so.Mo Yanxue,62,is from a Lusheng producing family in Paika.He started to     

A Beautiful Dream

Like many migrant workers,Xu Xiaojun,a 25-year-old kitchen cabinet installer who came to Beijing in 2001 from a small village in central China's Henan Province,hopes to find his way in the city instead of going back to the countryside.     

Reviving Education In the Countryside

Breathing new life into rural schools The Rongsheng Hope Primary School has witnessed a sharp drop in enrollment, declining from 180 students to only 30 in just three short years. Once upon a time, this school in a remote village in northwest China’s Gansu Province catered to children up to grade     

Working Together

正Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemicToday everything seems hunky-dory in Eyam, a pretty British village of 900 people southeast of Manchester. Children can be seen picking plump blackberries from hedgerows, cyclists amble on roads covered with fallen leaves. But in 1665, this idyllic village quarantined itself, with the residents making the heroic choice to sacrifice their lives to stop the spread of the bubonic plague.     

Lucky Money Goes Digital

<正>Chinese people have found a new way to usher in the Year of the Goat Kang Lipo,30,is an editor for a Beijingbased radio station.Each year,he returns to his hometown Jiaozuo,central China’s Henan Province,to spend the Spring Festival with his family.However,this year,things are a little bit different.During this year’s Spring Festival holiday,which ran from February 18 to 24,Kang spent     

ECONOMY

Living Outside The Mountain Suo Qian,a migrant from avillage in the mountainous areas of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to Jinling Village in Lingwu City,works for a textile company in the village and earns over 1,000 yuan($160.52)a month. Since the end of 2010,the region has begun to see the migration of mountainous residents from the     

Utopian Sojourn

The vision to which many Chinese people hold fast of an idyllic life is re ected in a third century story about a mountain-encircled,peach blossom-adorned land removed from temporal existence.In the author’s view,Bamei,a desolate village in Yunnan Province,comes close to this utopia.     

Making the Right Choice

<正>Party congress delegate elections seek the broadest representation Instead of working and living in a modern city, Yang Ning, who graduated from college in 2010, took a bold choice to return to her home village in Rongshui County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China.     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Learning or Vacationing? In a country whose per-capita GDP has just exceeded $1,000, for ordinary people, it is really a luxury to travel abroad. Recently, a group of village leaders from a province in northeast China visited South Korea, aiming to "gain experiences" in rural construction. The tour, which took the delegation to several scenic     

Better and Better

<正>For Muslim Chinese,"minority"means enrichment,not division Aboard showing pictures of 28 senior residents who have performed the haj pilgrimage stands at a park at the village gate.Sixty-eight families comprising 620 people from the Hui ethnic group live in the village,which in 2013 was renovated under a government program devoted to the minority group.     

A TALE OF TWO VILLAGES

<正>Rural deputies step up to serve the greater good Ten years ago,a group of young adults arrived in Rongzhong Village of Fujian Province in southeast China to learn from the village’s development experience.They came one month after Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the Communist Party of China(CPC)Central Committee,had visited the village and called on his fellow Chinese citizens to "work together in the pursuit of a prosperous life." At that point,     

Reviving the Rural Financial Market

SONG Deshun, from Huangtu-ozi village in miyun County, beijing, has just obtained an rmb 8,000 loan from a re-cently formed agricultural mutual-aid fund — money he will now use to ex-pand his mushroom growing business. Although the scheme is still in its early stages,     

Disaster of the Earth

The new generation of migrant workers are seeking a better lifestyle in the cities Like many migrant workers,Xu Xiaojun,a 25-year-old kitchen cabinet installer who came to Beijing in 2001 from a small village in central     

A Path Out of Poverty

正Progress continues in one of the country's most challenging battles Luo Qian,a 33-year-old woman of the Bouyei ethnic group who now runs an"agri-tainment"business in Pingzhai Village,has never regretted her decision to resign from her city job and return to her hometown to start a business.The village is located     

The Idea of Home

AS an old saying goes, ＂Home is where the heart is.＂ So even if your home goes through changes, as long as there is love it will be there. I was born in a very small village with only a few households along the coastal area of northern Jiangsu Province, at the end of 1969. Over the 40 years of my life I have experienced many changes, moving from deep in the countryside, to a larger village, then a small town and finally a city, eventually settling down in Beijing.     

A JOINT RESPONSE TO CHALLENGE

A continued guarantee of employees’ jobs,rights and interests Growing up in a small village in Yongjia County,Zhejiang Province,Li Feng has worked his way up from truck driver to purchasing manager at a large hi-tech enterprise in Shanghai.He has now been living and working in the metropolis near his hometown for two and a half decades.     

Extraordinary Acts by Ordinary People

SONG Zhixian sits calmly on his bed smoking, his lined face often breaking into a smile as he speaks. Just a month earlier, while others were enjoying the Chinese New Year, the 48- year-old was laboring 10 to 16 hours a day on a mountainside in snow-ravaged Hunan. Song Zhixian and a group of fellow farmers joumeyed from their small village in Hebei Province to voluntarily assist with relief efforts in China＇s snow-bound south. Their story has become an inspiration to people across the nation.