(200416) -- RONGAN, 16. April 2020 (Xinhua) -- Long Gexiong macht das Bett in einem Hotel im Bau im Dorf Tongbantun der Gemeinde Dongqi im Bezirk Rongan, Südchina, Guangxi Zhuang Autonome Region, 12. April 2020. Long Gexiong, 52, verließ mit 24 Jahren seine Heimatstadt und ging auf die Suche nach Arbeitsplätzen in der Stadt Liuzhou, der Autonomen Region Guangxi Zhuang in Südchina. Nach zwei Jahrzehnten Arbeit im Freien kehrte er endlich in sein Heimatdorf in den tiefen Bergen zurück. Lange fiel aus der Schule im Jahr 1986 wegen Armut und eked einen Lebensunterhalt durch das Pflanzen von Pflaumenbäumen. Jedoch, karge Hügel und Wasser Shorta

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(200416) -- RONGAN, April 16, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Long Gexiong makes the bed at a hotel under construction in Tongbantun Village of Dongqi Township in Rongan County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, April 12, 2020. Long Gexiong, 52, left his hometown at 24 and went hunting for jobs in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. After two decades working outside, he returned at long last to his home village in the deep mountains. Long dropped out of school in 1986 due to poverty and eked out a living by planting plum trees. However, barren hills and water shortage resulted in poor harvests for consecutive years. As many locals migrated to more prosperous regions to improve their standard of living in the 1990s, Long, heavily affected by low crop output, also followed the trend and started a journey working outside his hometown, a remote village called Tongbantun in Rongan County of Liuzhou City. Working as a welder and home decorator in Liuzhou, Long earned a good income, but he kept a close eye on his hometown and always thought of returning. True to his word, he traveled back to his hometown in 2012. To his surprise, Long found the village on the verge of dying out. Bumpy roads, ramshackle houses, fields left unattended, the village was home to only six empty-nest seniors aged between 60 and 90, as young people either found jobs elsewhere to make a living, or moved outside the mountains with their parents. "If we didn't come back, the village would disappear when the seniors pass away. I cannot sit idly watching my hometown vanish, " Long said, "Tongbantun is our root, without root we will be cast adrift." After the Spring Festival in 2012, Long and his cousins invested 580, 000 yuan (about 81, 945 U.S. dollars) to set up a cooperative in Tongbantun to plant plum trees and grapes and develop rural sightseeing tour, embarking on the path of saving the village. Good things never come easy. The arduous work of

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