History lives on through song in a fairy tale village

The protection of traditional villages was one of the topics I covered extensively last year.

In June, purely out of interest, I attended the Conference for the Revival of Chinese Villages in Taijiang county, Guizhou province.

I was drowsy after listening to keynote speeches for an entire morning, but I was suddenly jolted awake by the last speaker, Liu Zhaofeng, head of planning at Guizhou Architectural Design and Research Institute Co.