edit: So I searched into it and yes, it seems they did. They demolished the housing there for it was too dangerous conditions like mold and falling rocks, gave the villagers tents in a safer area and cleared falling rocks and built them communal housing. They decided to not move everyone in the village to a different more suitable location because the village had a unique dialect and they could not currently speak any other language, so it would have been too jarring for them. So they decided to carve a road into a cliff face, give them good running water and electricity, and connect a bus line to the place to help them with education and integration into the rest of the region.
The government seems to think since the place is so beautiful and unique culturally it will pay for itself in tourism, and set up a tourism center as well, though I don't know if its in this particular village or the adjacent cliff villages.
They built a cliff car to the main road it seems and it appears to be a popular tourist attraction.
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https://youtu.be/92QfmjrRCng
In this video one of the village elders is crying of joy
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Many in the village did not know how to read and are now capable of formal schooling. There is still construction ongoing but things are rapidly advancing. Their work is entirely socialist in nature, everyone in the village is part of the farming cooperative and many resources are communally pooled.
Most of it was in that video. Lots of very beautiful landscape shots there. One guy is so happy and he says that Xi Jinping and the engineering corps is full of miracle workers. He said he no longer would have to carry his kid four hours to school up and down a cliff face.
He had to do that to his pregnant wife too.
The Communist Party official there thinks that keeping the village there will be very good in the long term. It will have good tourism and it can cultivate food for itself more easily now, including Yi ethnic minority dishes. He thinks theyre projected to bring around 50-70k RMB in through various means each month but they could easily get by on 10k RMB for the entire village per month.
Things will look up a lot for this village I think, the state media made a huge effort to do wide panning shots of the countryside and mentioned traditional dishes so I'm betting they're going to a get a lot of tourism soon.
Collectivist projects that legitimately improve the lives of people.
In comparison, we're letting our infrastructure fall apart, it's been decades since we've done anything more significant or ambitious than replacing an old bridge with a newer (and one lane wider) bridge, and even that we barely manage. Easy to see who is the ascending power, and who is in terminal decline.
Yep. They also mentioned the village had a lot of older pensioners in it so they gonna get that authentic grandma food if you visit lol. That guy who had to carry his wife down the mountain mentioned she opened a grocery store / food court with a handful of other residents for authentic dishes.
yes and they now are able to cross the ravine to the other cliff village within 20 minutes. that would have been a full days affair before. and there were so many elderly there that physically could not leave without an airlift and probably didnt want to leave because they lived there their whole life. its great they did this
and tbh i sometimes make weird language errors like that because im fluent in both english and czech so things get all jumbled when i type sometimes
If some Appalachian slums were torn down and replaced with public housing, westerners would cream themselves on the spot. but for some peculiar reason, they apply different standards for China. Odd :soviet-hmm:
damn did they do this shit for free
edit: So I searched into it and yes, it seems they did. They demolished the housing there for it was too dangerous conditions like mold and falling rocks, gave the villagers tents in a safer area and cleared falling rocks and built them communal housing. They decided to not move everyone in the village to a different more suitable location because the village had a unique dialect and they could not currently speak any other language, so it would have been too jarring for them. So they decided to carve a road into a cliff face, give them good running water and electricity, and connect a bus line to the place to help them with education and integration into the rest of the region.
The government seems to think since the place is so beautiful and unique culturally it will pay for itself in tourism, and set up a tourism center as well, though I don't know if its in this particular village or the adjacent cliff villages.
edit2:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/31/c_138669380.htm
They built a cliff car to the main road it seems and it appears to be a popular tourist attraction.
edit3:
https://youtu.be/92QfmjrRCng
In this video one of the village elders is crying of joy
edit4:
Many in the village did not know how to read and are now capable of formal schooling. There is still construction ongoing but things are rapidly advancing. Their work is entirely socialist in nature, everyone in the village is part of the farming cooperative and many resources are communally pooled.
Do you have an article on the first part.
Also imagine what the would have done in America.
Most of it was in that video. Lots of very beautiful landscape shots there. One guy is so happy and he says that Xi Jinping and the engineering corps is full of miracle workers. He said he no longer would have to carry his kid four hours to school up and down a cliff face.
He had to do that to his pregnant wife too.
The Communist Party official there thinks that keeping the village there will be very good in the long term. It will have good tourism and it can cultivate food for itself more easily now, including Yi ethnic minority dishes. He thinks theyre projected to bring around 50-70k RMB in through various means each month but they could easily get by on 10k RMB for the entire village per month.
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Things will look up a lot for this village I think, the state media made a huge effort to do wide panning shots of the countryside and mentioned traditional dishes so I'm betting they're going to a get a lot of tourism soon.
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In comparison, we're letting our infrastructure fall apart, it's been decades since we've done anything more significant or ambitious than replacing an old bridge with a newer (and one lane wider) bridge, and even that we barely manage. Easy to see who is the ascending power, and who is in terminal decline.
and people will still say that China is just as bad as the US
Yep. They also mentioned the village had a lot of older pensioners in it so they gonna get that authentic grandma food if you visit lol. That guy who had to carry his wife down the mountain mentioned she opened a grocery store / food court with a handful of other residents for authentic dishes.
Didn’t notice the video. Thanks.
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yes and they now are able to cross the ravine to the other cliff village within 20 minutes. that would have been a full days affair before. and there were so many elderly there that physically could not leave without an airlift and probably didnt want to leave because they lived there their whole life. its great they did this
and tbh i sometimes make weird language errors like that because im fluent in both english and czech so things get all jumbled when i type sometimes
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If some Appalachian slums were torn down and replaced with public housing, westerners would cream themselves on the spot. but for some peculiar reason, they apply different standards for China. Odd :soviet-hmm: