Scaling Development Cliffs
May 21, 2020
4 minutes
By Wang Hairong
Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey
White puffy clouds drift past a bungalow facing a deep valley and a towering peak beyond it. Chirps of birds animate the idyllic scene without shattering its serenity.
The bungalow with a wood-plank roof and mud walls is featured in a video clip that Mouse Labo posted online on April 13. It is in his hometown Atulie’er, a village perched on a steep 800-meter cliff in Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, southwest China.
Labo, in his 20s, often records daily life in the small village with a few hundred residents and shares it on live-streaming platforms. In addition to a sea of clouds, the videos show villagers climbing a steel ladder, often
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