Yang Shanzhou was born in Yunnan in 1927.He joined the Party in 1952. Yang Shanzhou retired in 1988 and he turned down the easy option of a retired life in a big city,and decided to return to his home town in Daliang Mountain to bring green back to the barren hills. Yang believed planting trees was the first step to bringing wealth to the local area.Along with fifteen other people,Yang settled down deep in the mountains and began to work on his plan.
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