I met Yuan on the Inner Mongolia Million Tree Program trip. Our group photo on the Million Tree Program trip He was the first one who stepped forward and spoke among everyone sitting down there. There was nothing rehearsed about it. His story, like many young professionals today, is not defined by a single breakthrough but by a series of practical choices, adjustments, and persistence. While many people from Jiangsu prefer to identify with specific cities or even counties, em

The horizon lies low in the Ganjig, a city surrounded by grasslands. Wind from the grasslands gently blew, filling the city with a sense of openness that felt almost endless. I met Qi during a meal, where she performed traditional Mongolian songs, as if the landscape of the vast steppes emerged from the depths of her eyes. For a brief time, it felt as though we were not simply listening to a song, but stepping into a living fragment of a culture. “Performing and singing is

Wang Kai, the director of the Million Tree Project. When all company workers are busy preparing their end-of-year reports, this man is...

Nineteen years in, Rebecca’s work is still about growth — of plants, of children, of understanding between people. She knows not every seed will sprout. But in a world that often forgets where its tomatoes come from, she keeps planting anyway.

In a world driven by profit and gain, someone has to choose a different path. This is an interview journal on a media worker for a reforestation organization, Roots and Shoots.