For 32 years, veteran Party members alone guarded the boundary line of the motherland.

Original title: guarding the border in the west for half a century, I am lonely and prosperous.

-- A record of Wei Deyou's career as a veteran Party member

Wei Deyou is in Salbrak grassland (photo taken on June 2).

Comprehensive report on the through train for agriculture, rural areas and farmers: the dusk of Sarbrak grassland on the border between China and Kazakhstan is a kind of empty and lonely beauty.

When the orange-red sun wheel falls to the vast horizon, the coolness in the depths of the prairie thickens, the night opens its mouth to engulf the earth, and the poplar with its head held high and firm, lingers in the faint sunset.

In the afterglow of the rosy clouds, grassland herdsmen drive cattle and sheep with whips, moving from spring and autumn pastures on the border of Salbulak to summer pastures elsewhere.

Only 76-year-old Wei Deyou and his more than 100 sheep are left in the boundless prairie. After guarding the border for more than half a century, the veteran party member with 32 years of party membership is used to living a lonely life.

Photo taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Xiaolong

Wei Deyou pours salty and bitter saline-alkali water from the gate well (photo taken on June 2).