Turning an impoverished plateau village into 'Chinese Hollywood'
China DailyZhenjiawan was built around 1265. Fang Xiaoyan hangs up the phone and asks her husband to get ready to look for extras for a TV series to be shot in their village. The village, with a history of more than 700 years, is described by Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng as a place with boundless yellow mountains and endless loess ridges. It features several distinctive house caves or "yaodong," a form of earth shelter dwellings common in the Loess Plateau in northern China. The village recently came under the spotlight when the local TV station in Yan'an reported about the burgeoning show business there, drawing comparison with East China's Hengdian, one of China's biggest film and television program production centers and a barometer of the cinema industry.
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Turning an impoverished plateau village into 'Chinese Hollywood'
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