Former nomad Yanglo spent his youth tending yaks and sheep in the highlands of C...
MADOI, China - Former nomad Yanglo spent his youth tending yaks and sheep in the highlands of China’s Qinghai province, but the Tibetan is now often found huddled over a sewing machine in his modest brick home around 160 kilometers away stitching sheepskin coats.
“I am used to it now, and I don’t plan to return to the grasslands,” Yanglo told Reuters as he worked at his electric sewing machine in a resettlement village on the outskirts of Madoi county, around 2,000 kilometers from Beijing. Blaming global warming and overgrazing, China turned the upper basins of the Yangtze, Lancang and Yellow River into a nature reserve known as Sanjiangyuan. The government has invested more than 18 billion yuan in conserving the local ecology since 2005, and plans to further invest 900 million yuan this year.
But his biggest wish is for his children “to get a better education and acquire some culture” by assimilating further. “If we don’t pass down these stories, future generations will have no knowledge of them,” he said. “Our folklore and our traditions will then be truly lost.”
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