ChineseToday | A ranger guards forest for 37 years in NE China's Liaoning

ChineseToday | A ranger guards forest for 37 years in NE China's Liaoning

(240602) -- ZHANGWU, June 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Li Dongkui feeds chicken at home in Zhangwu County, northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 30, 2024. Li Dongkui is a forest ranger at Zhanggutai Forest Farm in Zhangwu County. The forest farm is located on the southern edge of the Horqin Sandy Land and is part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program. In 1987, after retiring from the military, Li began working at the forest farm as a ranger. The most profound childhood memory Li has of his hometown is the fierce sandstorms. He knew that only by advancing sand control could this situation be fundamentally changed. However, the challenges Li faced were far beyond his imagination. In the beginning, the conditions on the forest farm were extremely harsh, far from populated areas, with no water or electricity, and the land was covered with sand dunes. The forest there had no roads and was rugged, so the forest farm equipped Li with a horse. To better patrol the forest, Li moved his home into the mounta

CHINA-YUNNAN-JINPING-REVISIT TO KUCONG PEOPLE'S PRIMITIVE LIFE (CN)

CHINA-YUNNAN-JINPING-REVISIT TO KUCONG PEOPLE'S PRIMITIVE LIFE (CN)

(230726) -- JINPING, July 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Puzhong picks some wild berries for his grandchildren in the forest near Xiaxinzhai Village, Zhemi Township, Jinping County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, July 23, 2023. After days of thinking, Zhang Puzhong decided to do something instructive to his grandchildren: bring them back to the forest he used to live as a child more than 60 years ago. "This is very important. I know how happy I am today because I never forget how bitter my life was in the past," Zhang said. Zhang is a 70-year-old Kucong resident in Xiaxinzhai Village, Zhemi Township of Jinping County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Kucong ethnic people means "people living on the mountains," an offshoot of the Lahu ethnic group. Yunnan now boasts 30,000 Kucong people, mainly living in the Ailao Mountain area in Zhenyuan and Jinping counties. Kucong people used to live a primitive life in mounta

A dream come true for Russian painter in China

STORY: A dream come true for Russian painter in China DATELINE: August 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:19 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of Kosterina Evgeniya workingSOUNDBITE (Chinese): KOSTERINA EVGENIYA, Russian painter STORYLINE: A Russian painter who has lived in China for more than a decade held a personal exhibition with the theme of pursuit of beauty in a local gallery in Lanzhou City. Kosterina Evgeniya began to study Chinese painting in 2010. She said the splendid Chinese culture and its long history have inspired her to create new works. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): KOSTERINA EVGENIYA, Russian painter "I'm holding an exhibition in this gallery these days. I've been making preparations for it for many years. These paintings are the result of my work over more than 10 years. When I traveled to Hexi Corridor, I finally got to have a deeper understanding of the culture, history and various sceneries of Gansu. The landscapes in Gansu are really diversified. There are snow-capped mounta