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It was in Xiaomi (小米) that we met Ma Mingang (马敏刚) for the first time. Xiaomi, in Zhaoyang district, is a very poor village of Yunnan province in the South of China. Built at an altitude of more than 2000m, the village is sadly known to be desperately short of water. Ma Mingang, the head of the fourteenth group of the village (in China, villages '村' are divided into groups '组'), greets us and takes us to the house of another group leader
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Chen Shiquan, nicknamed respectfully « Old Chen » by his ID colleagues, is the most experienced technician on biogas projects working for Initiative Development (ID) in China. He is from Zigong in Sichuan province (Western China). He is 44, the same age of his wife who lives at the other end of the country, in Shenzhen (Guangdong province, near Hong Kong, South-East of China). They have a daughter, aged 22, who, having completed her studies, works
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Several dozens of kilometers away from the nearest town is Shenjiagou, a very poor village difficult to reach in Zhaoyang district (Yunnan, South China). Built by a river, Shenjiagou stands in a valley that the wind keeps sweeping relentlessly. In a small house dark and humid, we met Wu Chizhen, an old lady that turned seventy this year.

Mrs. Wu has always lived in Shenjiagou. Her physical appearance tells how hard her life has been : her body
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Post field trip interview

Mark Baker joined ID in the summer of 2009. He recently graduated from the University of East London with an Msc in Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies. ID interviewed him after his first field visit.


ID. I understand you have been in China for some time now, what brought you here in the first place?



Mark.
The primary reasons for coming
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Xue En Ping, a Han (the main Chinese ethnic group) is 48 years, and lives in CaoHai in Dongshan village, with 5 members of his family.

His eldest son, Xue Xi Gang,is 24 years old, and left school at the age of 9. Married, he left the region to work in the province of Zhe Jiang.
The cadet, Xue Xi Wei, 21 years, followed the same route as his brother.

You can count on Xue En Ping En: confident in the future, a father who puts his pragmatism
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On the mountain of "Wu Meng Shan" in Guizhou province is the village of Ajigen, where 73 Miao minority families live.
The village elders told families that "Ma" (horses) were placed in this land of hunting, making living pleasant for them.
Until 80 years ago, lush surrounding forests provided enough energy to meet the needs of daily life and activities of the farm.

However, the forest has been damaged by the sale of timber, causing significant
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