A man guards the empty village alone with sheep in the morning and dusk.

Original title: one person's village

On April 19, Liu Sheng's family fed sheep in the yard.

Songbai Village Snow Mountain Club, Jingyuan County, Gansu Province, which is located in the shady and humid mountain area at high altitude, has a bad climate and a thin harvest of land, and there are no other villages within a few kilometers. In 2006, more than 20 local villagers moved out one after another, while Liu Shengjia chose to stay in order to take care of his sick bedridden mother and brother. Later, his mother and brother died one after another, and Xueshan Society left Liu Sheng alone.

The draught needs to be pulled down the mountain, and the food to eat needs to run several kilometers down the mountain to buy. In order to survive, in addition to the meagre subsidy for returning farmland to forests and the income from selling two or three sheep a year, Liu Sheng's family worked as a temporary forest ranger at a forestry management station not far from the society, and his monthly income of more than 700 yuan was the basic guarantee of his life. "it's not a problem to survive on my own and the help of relatives, but I still want to move to a place where there are people." In this way, Liu Sheng's family insisted on waiting here....

On April 19, Liu Shengjia prepared to boil water in the house where he lived. Photo taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Peiyi