- 03/07/2025
This is a reality-themed documentary narrated and recorded by "others" to depict China's contemporary development and changes.
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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30The Hangduen Mountains, the boundary between the two drastically different types of landform
00:42in China's Sichuan province.
00:44Plains and plateaus, for those on the long march, that meant freezing cold, thin air and
00:51altitude sickness on the one hand, and treacherous swamp and bogs hidden beneath the grass on
00:57the other.
00:57Nowadays, easy access to supplies and safety measures have made nature a little kinder.
01:04But for Fernando Munoz Bernal from the Amazon Plain, this trip to the western Sichuan Plateau
01:10will be anything but a walk in the park.
01:15Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, located in southwest of Sichuan, is a mountainous area
01:21home to one of China's oldest ethnic groups, the Yi people.
01:28It was May 1935 when the Central Red Army entered the Liangshan mountainous era.
01:36There are many legendary stories about this place, but one of them stands out as more famous
01:41than others.
01:42I am on my way to Yi Hai to learn what took place there.
01:48Yi Hai is a plateau lake.
01:50When the Red Army arrived, people of the Yi ethnic group around here still lived in a
01:56slave society.
01:57Shama Yi Gu's grandfather was the spiritual leader of the Yi people at the time, second only
02:04to the chief, Xiaoyedan.
02:06Shama Yi Gu grew up listening to the stories of the Red Army in Yi Hai.
02:11Yi Hai is a part of the
02:41It's just a situation.
02:43It's like, don't kill, don't be afraid.
02:45People are good.
02:47It's the end of the day.
02:49At this time, I felt it was impossible.
02:52We had such a big team,
02:55we had such a big team,
02:57we had such a big team,
02:59and we had such a big team.
03:01After personal investigation,
03:03Xama Igu's grandfather found
03:05that the Red Army was indeed special.
03:07They advocated equality among all ethnic groups,
03:10and they helped the poor.
03:12Liu Bocheng,
03:13commander of the Red Army's advanced troops,
03:15expressed goodwill and willingness
03:17to bond with the Yi people's chief as brothers.
03:40The Yi people in Liangshan
03:42entered the modern era.
03:43The Yi people in Liangshan
03:44entered the modern era.
03:46The Yi people in Liangshan
03:48entered the modern era.
03:50After the founding of the People's Republic of China,
03:52the Yi people in Liangshan
03:53entered the modern era.
03:55However, mountains and steep cliffs
03:57continued to hinder local development.
03:59To improve the livelihoods of the Yi people still further,
04:01the government has implemented
04:02in the modern era.
04:03The Yi people in Liangshan
04:04entered the modern era.
04:06The Yi people in Liangshan
04:07The Yi people in Liangshan
04:09entered the modern era.
04:11However, mountains and steep cliffs
04:13continued to hinder local development.
04:16To improve the livelihoods of the Yi people still further,
04:19the government has implemented targeted
04:22poverty alleviation measures tailored
04:24to the needs of different villages.
04:27Gu Muo village was once notoriously poor,
04:31but today it's the most beautiful Yi village in Sichuan.
04:38Like many other young villagers,
04:4026-year-old Muobi Ar Yi used to work in big cities.
04:45The changes in his hometown
04:47have drawn him back.
04:49Now his main job is to promote rural tourism.
04:52Ruobi Ar Yi took me to a Chinese-style B&B
04:56run by Mrs. Edei Qixi.
04:59In 2018, Edei Qixi built a new house
05:04with the help of the government
05:05and opened a Yi-style B&B.
05:08This is our museum.
05:10This house is two floors.
05:14The other floor is made with wood.
05:18This is your house.
05:19This house has 30 square feet.
05:21It's made of the museum.
05:22This one is like this.
05:23This one is like the one.
05:24This house has two floors.
05:26The other floor is to build the house.
05:27The second floor is to build the land.
05:28The second floor is to build the land.
05:30You don't have any money.
05:31This is our home.
05:32An adobe house is kept next to the new house.
05:35It helps visitors better understand the traditional lifestyle of the Yi people.
05:40From this house, you can go to the top.
05:43This is the place we used to do before.
05:45This is the place we used to do before.
05:46It was very cold.
05:47So this is for cooking and also for warm.
05:50Right?
05:51We used to live here in the house.
05:53We used to live here.
05:55We used to live here.
05:56We used to live here.
05:57Now, in the usual,
05:58we used to live here as a store.
06:01It's like a store.
06:02People used to live in the new house.
06:04We used to live here.
06:05Yes.
06:06The change of Goumo village began in 2017.
06:11With assistance from Phuoshan city of Guangdong province,
06:14Eddie Chuxi and 106 other Yi families moved into new houses.
06:20Highways to their doorsteps were also built.
06:24As a unique Yi culture and natural scenery attract more and more tourists,
06:30traditional Yi handicrafts begin to thrive.
06:37I am surprised to find that the patterns of some Yi handicrafts are very similar to those in my country, Colombia.
06:49The traditional Yi shawls made by these ladies are warm and beautiful.
06:54I want to give it a try.
06:59I want to give it a try.
07:02Cultures have no barriers.
07:04I will always remember the passion and hearty laughter of the Goumo villagers.
07:09Robi R. Yi told me that he is very happy to see that many of his young friends have also returned home,
07:16bringing vitality to the old village.
07:19They believe in a better future for Goumo village.
07:22Another Yi village I am visiting next has found its own successful poverty alleviation model as well.
07:31Unlike Goumo village, Atular village is almost completely isolated from the outside world.
07:39Located on an 800 meter high plateau, the village is nicknamed Cliff village.
07:45To facilitate access to Atular, the government built the steel stairway in 2016 which has a total of 2,556 steps.
07:58Before that, Atular villagers had to clamber up and down 12 rattan ladders instead.
08:04The construction of the steel ladder has ensured villagers' safety, resulting in greater contact with the outside world.
08:16Halfway through my climb, I met Mose Subura, who grew up in the Cliff village.
08:22Hi.
08:23Hi.
08:24Hi.
08:25Hi.
08:26How long is it?
08:27From here, we probably need 3 hours.
08:30Is it about 6 hours every day?
08:32We only need to go back in the middle of a day.
08:35Wow.
08:36That's great.
08:37Because when I go down, it's too hot.
08:39We can't go down.
08:40We can't go down.
08:41We can't wait until the sun is not so big.
08:45There's water, there's light.
08:49I can see there's a little bit.
08:51Yes.
08:52There's a lot.
08:53There's a lot.
08:54There's a lot.
08:55There's a lot.
08:56There's a lot.
08:57There's a lot.
08:58There's a lot.
08:59There's a lot.
09:00There's a lot.
09:01There's a lot.
09:02To completely transform the villagers' quality of life, since 2020, many Cliff Village residents
09:08have been moved to four new communities at the foot of the mountains.
09:13Among them, 27 households moved into the Mwandi community, where over 6,000 people,
09:20from 87 villages are now accommodated.
09:25In the community grocery store, I met Yike Mu Guo, who used to live in the Cliff Village.
09:32He hardly knew candies when growing up.
09:35Now, he has opened this store after moving into his new home to provide shopping convenience
09:41to residents here.
09:42How much money do you spend in
10:10I really like it now.
10:13Moussi Aqie, in his early 20s, is also a new resident here.
10:18He job is to assist social workers to help other relocated residents solve various problems
10:25and adapt to the new environment.
10:28I want to ask you, what is your work?
10:32Aqie, in the home of the resident, who just called for help.
10:46Alright, we are getting a live call into the service.
10:49Let's see what this user needs.
10:54I asked Aqie to take me to the home of the resident who just called for help.
10:59To my surprise, the maintenance worker is already there.
11:04The furniture and electrical appliances in the house
11:07are either free or paid for by the government through cash subsidies.
11:13The One Touch Call service is made possible by this phone.
11:18In order to help young Yi people learn more skills,
11:30the community regularly offers various sorts of vocational training
11:34and has had a Yi embroidery workshop established.
11:38The daycare centre provides a gathering place for the elderly.
11:47And social workers are there to chat with them,
11:50so that the elderly won't feel too lonely in this new environment.
11:59Moussi Aqie said that he really envied the children in the community.
12:04When he was little, there was no kindergarten in the village.
12:08The school was a long walk away.
12:11Now, the community has one middle school,
12:14two primary schools and a great kindergarten.
12:17With the improved education system, the children have a brighter future.
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12:42after having seen these two different kinds of solutions for poverty alleviation here i can
12:53tell you that there is not one single solution to this issue the people here in this community
12:59have had to adapt to a very different lifestyle and that has its own challenges while the people
13:05who stayed in the mountain they have it a little bit easier because they are in the same familiar
13:10space however having seen the children at this school here with the bright smiles and all their
13:16energy i can tell you there is a very bright future for the people of this community
13:29heading north from liangshan prefecture the jajin mountain looms with an altitude of 4930 meters
13:37its main peak is covered with snow all year round its air is thin its weather very fickle this is the
13:43first snow mountain the red army crossed during the long march the gun village lies at the foot of the
13:51jajin mountain it was here that the red army had stayed to prepare some simple cold proof materials
13:58before crossing the mountain i have come to the red army snow mountain crossing memorial to learn more
14:07about the perils and dangers of their journey through these mountains and i have found some very
14:14interesting artifacts that they had to improvise as they were facing very cold weather among those is
14:22this particular vest over here that they have to make in order to face the cold weather but this
14:30is not the only one perhaps the more interesting one are the kind of footwear that they had to wear
14:36as they walk through the snow it's really unbelievable what they had to go through
14:40i have learned that mr ma used to be a guide for the red army as the wind opened down the snowcat
14:52mountains and his son has agreed to meet with me and tell me about these perilous times
14:59that's what we're going to do we're going to do we're going to do we're going to do we're going to
15:10ma wenli was born into a gun village he took me to his former house which was where the red army
15:17started their journey to climb over the snowy mountains
15:21the distance ma wenli took me to the judging mountain pass the weather was very changeable
15:40soon we encountered rain and heavy fog we finally reached the judging mountain pass the temperature
15:49continued to drop ma wenli told me in detail how his father led the red army over the judging mountain
16:03if you don't have to touch your eyes you can't touch your eyes
16:08when you are late you can't rest and sleep
16:12you can't touch your eyes you'll be safe you can't touch my Igor
16:17oh happy wink a bit you want to go thr school live
16:18to volunteer while writing andckej me think to volunteer
16:19while walking through morning to volunteer
16:21you know the CLS-TV channel
16:23on the W được channel
16:24but he couldn't call you
16:27or feature ach всё it happened to check in the lookingira
16:32so what's remember meiell era
16:34hello
16:34you know
16:36these road signs used to be about five meters high now only the storm base remains silently
16:48telling the heroic actions of the red army more than 80 years ago today the snow cap mountains
16:57that were such a formidable obstacle for the red army have become a popular tourist destination
17:04attracting many hikers
17:09mount si gunyan attracts many alpine climbers there are over 50 snow-capped mountains with well-known
17:17climbing routes delan lungbo grew up at the foot of mount si gunyan collecting medicinal herbs and
17:26farming used to be the only sources of income for him and other residents now he is co-founder of a
17:33professional mountaineering company in order to experience alpine climbing i participated in a
17:38mountaineering training course a decade ago professional mountaineering services offered
17:45here were all from foreign teams whilst the long room boo and his partner dashed were working only
17:52as supporters they soon realized that as natives who were familiar with the mountains they could do
17:59whatever the foreigners were doing so they started to learn mountaineering skills systematically working
18:06as guides until they established their own company the most exciting moment has finally arrived the ascent
18:17we have arrived at 4480 meters above sea level right now we are getting ready to properly suit me with
18:27the technical gear that will keep me warm and safe as we climb up the mountain to ensure my safety everything
18:35is carefully checked shoelaces helmet safety belts ascenders and trekking poles finally lumbu and i are tied to the same rope
18:47well we are all kitted up all geared up and well all ready to start our climb i feel very safe
18:54and in very very good hands so let's go
18:58好 现在我们准备出发
19:00好 好 现在我们准备出发
19:06here
19:16谢谢
19:27this is extremely extremely slippery the snow is is very soft and the rocks underneath are not fixed so
19:36at any time your foot can just slip over and you fall like i just did this is very treacherous
19:43but he's holding me up so i'm good let's go
19:52you see this is the thing you don't know which rock is still and which rock is moving
19:57so it's very easy to to lose your footing the snow is covering the rocks and you don't know
20:03what's underneath you don't know which one is going to move which one is not so it's very
20:08very slow making sure that every step is safe and and testing testing so this rope is a lifeline really
20:19all right
20:24oh my god
20:33okay
20:46we're finally at the top dashi has prepared something to surprise me
20:51怎么样感觉好厉害好厉害是吧对对对现在喝点水吃点东西
20:57哈休整一会你的脚怎么样有一点了有一点是吗对好那个我们现在我们的装备
21:04防水保暖又比较昂贵你知道以前我们的红军
21:09过雪山过草地都是穿的草鞋我知道知道是吗好我们给你准备了一双
21:16what你要不感受一下哪里啊好包里面
21:20我给你准备了一双鞋
21:26well when you look at these shoes these shoes are very difficult to secure and even if you put them
21:32on they're going to move around and as you walk through the rocks and the snow your feet are going
21:36to get wet or you're going to cut your feet it's just unbelievable what they achieved with so little
21:43equipment so little gear thank you i'm trying to walk in the snow with these shoes
21:54of course the snow is in contact with my socks and it's already freezing i can feel how cold it is
22:02there's very little grip on the shoes so easy to slip oh that's cold
22:18when i arrived at Yajin mountain i had the normal symptoms of high altitude i had a headache and i
22:26had nausea and i had to postpone my work for one day but back in the day the red army soldiers who
22:35have come from the south they had never seen snow and they were facing that mountain without the gear
22:44and without the knowledge that i shared when we climbed it when i tried the straw shoes and tried
22:51to walk on the snow i realized that i would have never been able to do what the red army
22:56soldiers do and i wonder what moved them to try to tackle that mountain and the answer is simple
23:04they hope that one day their children would have a wide and bright smile as rumble and his friends
23:15but getting over the mountains didn't mean the end of the red army's arduous march
23:21before them lay the vast grasslands even more life-threatening than the snow-capped mountains
23:31banjo township was the first inhabited village the exhausted red army reached after a week's marching
23:38across the grasslands
23:40i met a descendant of a red army soldier here his father wounded in battle couldn't keep up with the
23:53main army so he decided to stay here he grew up listening to his father's stories about the red
24:00army's perilous long march i can't imagine how difficult it must be to walk carrying lots of deer
24:11around oh you don't you don't know what he said we don't want to talk about it all to the
24:17it was just this place you see here you see to see and see it
24:20and this place at the time the back of the brothers said to the
24:23to be the 12-year-old
24:2610-year-old building area had to be stressed
24:28At the time of the war, it was 78 years old.
24:32They had never heard of this story.
24:35The first thing happened to us,
24:38and the last 10-year-old people came to the war.
24:41But the whole war didn't have any way.
24:43They didn't want to kill themselves.
24:46This is the most painful thing.
24:48They have to use their own life for the war.
24:52So the war was to fight against the war.
24:55It's the most important thing to our military.
24:58It's a huge amount of light.
25:01On its long, arduous journey across the grasslands,
25:04the Red Army lost over 10,000 people.
25:08Today, on the Bank of the Bangyo River,
25:11a statue called Dawn of Victory stands in memory of the fallen.
25:19Fortunately, the sacrifices and quests made in the past
25:23have brought peace and harmony to the present.
25:27This is a beautiful Alpine wetland grassland,
25:30home to some of China's rare black-necked cranes.
25:34They are thriving again,
25:36thanks to the environmental restoration of the Ruo Ar-Gai grassland.
25:42Sonan Dujia is a herdsman on the grassland.
25:46He has nearly 100 yaks at home.
25:48He took me to the county seat of Ruo Ar-Gai to buy fodder.
25:54Sonan Dujia told me that over-gracing has severely damaged the ecology.
25:59The degraded grasslands and wetlands are no longer as beautiful
26:03as they were when he was a child.
26:05The quality of yaks has also suffered.
26:09To help the environment recover while increasing the income of herdsman,
26:13the government is promoting a new method of raising animals.
26:17the flowered grasslands and planting trees for the rain.
26:19Here, we see the tree here.
26:22We have three kinds of formas of ernest animals.
26:25We show them for a tree here.
26:27It's a tree.
26:28There's a tree.
26:30And we have a tree.
26:31It's also of we've taken a tree to make it here.
26:32Like the tree for us just like the tree.
26:33We have to purify the tree.
26:35We also have a tree to sell it.
26:38We can microwave the tree for the tree.
26:39It's a tree for them to eat the trees.
26:41I can see that the death of the cow's death is very little.
26:47According to Sonam Doger's calculations,
26:50traditional grazing requires 1.7 hectares of pasture to raise one yak.
26:56The hybrid method, on the other hand, requires less than 0.7 hectares per yak,
27:02meaning less environmental impact on the land,
27:05improved productive capacity and increased incomes for the herdsmen.
27:11In the past, Ruarghai people's main income mostly came from animal husbandry.
27:20Today, thanks to the new ecotourism model, herdsmen have more options.
27:26They can make money at their doorstep to their B&Bs and shops.
27:31The Red Army entered Abba Sichuan and stayed there for 16 months during the long march.
27:41According to incomplete statistics, local Tibetan people provided the Red Army with more than 10.000 tons of food and 200.000 yaks.
27:53This is why Mao Zedong also called it the yak revolution.
28:00More than 80 years ago, Tibetan support ensured the victory of the long march.
28:06And today, the smiles of the Tibetan people are the best reward for all the dedication and perseverance.
28:14I have seen the hard-working and diligent yet quite content Yi ethnic group.
28:37I have also seen the very colorful and very enthusiastic Tibetan ethnic group.
28:43I have seen the yaks graze freely in the grassland.
28:46And I have seen the beautiful bright smile of the children.
28:50I have seen the changes in their lives and the smiles on their faces.
28:55And even though change can be difficult and require you to adapt, I think that it can bring about a transformation that is both physical and spiritual.
29:07And perhaps change is the silver lining that can bring a brighter future.
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