(Translated by
the Foreign Publicity Office of Zhongfang Red Cross
International Hospital)
Someone once told me the city of Huaihua is a green paradise,
with the smell of green pervading everywhere. You would get
moved only by making an easy breath there. They are describing a
desirable paradise for me. Looking for the sweet fragrance along
the way, I step into this mystical land of the western Hunan
province, Huaihua, with light steps.
No wonder people say this is one of the places with the highest
green coverage rate. It seems that nature had given all
preferences to her. The running Yuan River, a bright and long
green belt, presents the beauty of the romantic charms and
intelligence of nature. With each breath here, I can feel the
purity and serenity of her. I cannot help wondering whether they
are real mountains and waters, or just a peaceful and secluded
place in an artificial picture. The pure and clean breath erases
all the noises in my mind. At this very moment, I just want to
remove my earthly clothes and put my heart and soul in a certain
place among the green mountains and rivers.
Get back to the purity, the simplicity and the nature. (The
Wind-Rain Bridge of Dong Minority)
At all times, there appear dribs and drabs of the beauty of
original cultures here. The music of the Lusheng (a reed-pipe
wind instrument) is beautiful, loud and clear. Here, you could
not find the ostentation, or the hustle and bustle of the world,
let alone the hypocrisy. People here in all sincerity warmly
open their hearts to all outsiders. I am enchanted by the
original flavor of local folklore. I dreamed a sweat dream that
I became a villager of Dong minority and took a breath of the
sweet flavor of Dong songs. This enchanting smell brings me back
to the green paradise. Whether the landscape facilitates the
emergence of humanism, or the original humanism retains the
beauty of this mystical landscape, remains a mystery. Your mind
will be purified by this beautiful scenery, which I think, only
such a beautiful landscape can best express the meaning of ＾a
place propitious for giving birth to great men￣.
(Hongjiang Ancient Commercial City) The procession of time
seems never to change the local customs here. (Centenarians)
Time, sealed up for hundreds of years, always keeps that
classical beauty alive. Take a look at that cooking smoke
curling around the Dong villages; listen to in your mind to the
wonders of patting clothing and husking rice, as well as walking
along the lane roads under the green tiles and high walls.
(Longxing Lecture Temple in Yuanling city, built during the
second year of the period of Emperor Taizong of Tang dynasty in
the year of 628, 348 years earlier than Yuelu Academy in
Changsha, the provincial capital of the Hunan province) If life
is just like the beginning of first sight, I would believe that
here is a dream of my previous life, summoning me up to search
along the road, and meeting unexpectedly this mystical paradise,
a predestined arrangement in my fate. Here is a harmonious
paradise on earth. Outsiders, like me, often admire and look
forward to the pure and plain life here.
This is
the Zhongfang Red Cross International Hospital, located at the
ecological city of Zhongfang county, City of Huaihua, Hunan
province, China. As a burgeoning international hospital
concerning foreign nationals with TCM and the first
international project in Zhongfang County, it has been given
great supports from the Red Cross of Hunan province and the
county Party committee and government of Zhongfang County. Since
the end of 2004, this team group has provided good treatment
services for more than one thousand foreigners with different
kinds of chronic and problematic diseases from over 100
countries, such as the United State, England, Canada, Australia,
Germany etc. At the same time, they also provide TCM trainings
for international friends with pure English teaching style,
gained good reputation from international TCM students and
doctors of western medicine and TCM. Their goals are with their
endless efforts to become an International TCM Valley and an
International TCM Aid Center of Red Cross in China in the coming
ten years.
Today¨s Huaihua still sticks to the ecological idea and abides
by the ecological pulse of low consumption of raw material, low
emission, high efficiency as well as high output. The economic
structure, characterized as ecological environment,
eco-industry, eco-culture, eco-tourism and ecological
residential, is going from strength to strength. The combination
of tradition and modernism seems not to wash away the original
ecological property of this city; on the contrary, it adds a
more harmonious rhythm to this city. Local residents proudly
tell me, as the birth-land of hybrid rice, they have created
remarkable achievements. All this provides a new vitality and
sustainable development for the harmonious city
of Huaihua, known as the bridgehead of
southwest of China, who is making her every effort to form a
center of commerce and logistics and to build an ecologically
livable city.
A friend
of mine, who is doing business here, told me with great pride,
that as the west gate of China, adjacent to the five provinces
of Sichuan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
and Yunan, developed traffic network will make the future of
Huaihua City not only as an ecologically livable city but also
as a modernized center of commerce and logistics. Where there is
imagination, there is possibility. Right! The aesthetics of
ecology and the philosophy of development harmoniously integrate
as one here, which is the proudest achievement of this city.
Stacks of buildings pull my mind back to the reality that this
is a modernized city, while the varieties of green make me feel
I was born in an ecological garden. Walking on the city's
streets, what comes to me is the natural scenery preferred by
modern people and a harmonious pictures scroll, integrating
simplicity and elegance. The smiling faces of people here
undoubtedly tell me that this city is full of happiness. At this
very moment, I think, just like them, I have every reason to
believe that living in such an ecologically livable green city,
happiness is the common language for all people here. Wandering
around this modern city while breathing the fresh air, I feel I
have become a part of the city.
Unwittingly, this city fulfills all my dreams. These dreams,
pulling my footsteps, let me make up my mind to stay here with
all my dreams. My heart will beat and I will take my breath
together with this city every day. Let me breathe here for the
touching of green and brilliant future. (Huaihua!) (Huaihua, I
love you!) Huaihua, a promising city! Huaihua, Hunan province!
General
Advisor:
Li Yilong Yi Pengfei
General
Supervisor: Xiong Chunju Shi Xixin
General
Producer:
Ning Zhiwen
Producer: Zhou Chongyan Zhai Yucheng Wang Mingliang Luo
Yan
Executive Advisor:
Liu Xuming
Creative
Director:
Ji Xuechao Wang Chunxiao
Creativity:
Hu Xiaohu Wang Baogang Xia Chao
Director: Yang Jiancheng
Film
Producer:
Xiang Zheng Hu Xiaohu
Photography:
He Botao Liu Chunlei
Lighting
Engineer:
Wang Wenyu Zeng Fanliang
Props:
Cheng Xiabin Lu Chao
Dresser:
Wang Xuesong
Editor:
Du Ning Chen Xu
Actor:
Long Huaizhong Wu Yangniao
Translated by the Foreign Publicity Office of Zhongfang Red
Cross Hospital, Huaihua city, Hunan, P.R. China
