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Inner Mongolia's Ulan Muqir troupes seek to preserve traditional folk music. Chen Nan reports in Guangzhou.

When Hasieerdeni thinks of his childhood, the 32-year-old man who was born in a nomadic family and grew up on the grasslands in Inner Mongolia autonomous region, says he always recalls the performances by Ordos Otog Banner Ulan Muqir, a local singing and dancing troupe.

"Every summer, I sat on the grasslands along with my family and many other people living nearby to watch their performances. When the singers from the troupe performed folk songs in the technique of khoomei ("throat singing"), the sound was so deep that it almost touched my bones," Hasieerdeni, whose name means "valuable jade" in Mongolian, says in Guangzhou.