Childhood ＂Treasure Box＂

LI Chunxiang, who moved to live with her married daughter in Beijing, enjoys chatting with the staff at the reclamation depot of their residential community. When looking back on her childhood, her most vivid memory - apart from being hungry - is of collecting scraps. ＂When I was little, I picked through everything to find something to sell. It seemed everything had another use,＂ she recalls.