Planters' punch

What once started as a low-income engagement for two disabled men is today turning into an ecological campaign. Pei Pei and Sun Ye report in Hebei province.

In April, when a sandstorm-the strongest in more than a decade in China-raged through the country's northern parts, at least two men said they felt little of it.

Jia Wenqi and Jia Haixia (not related), both suffering from disabilities and in their 50s, were spared most of the blasts of sand and other particles forced on cities and villages by strong winds, reminiscent of a scene from Christopher Nolan's 2014 movie Interstellar, as they were sheltered by trees.