In the third part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark travels to Xinjia village in Jilin province where he braves -17 C temperatures to investigate changes in the village over the past 30 years. He finds the mud and straw houses have been rebuilt with modern materials and the villagers are all busy enriching in various enterprises.
Part 6: Spring Festival return
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By D J Clark
Animation: Xu Jiye
Logistics : Isabel Fu
Producer: Flora Yue
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About D J Clark
D J Clark has worked worldwide as a multimedia journalist for more than 20 years. As well as working for China Daily he runs an MA course in Multimedia journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University and is the Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism in Manila, Philippines.