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In 1956, 20-year-old farmer Liu Guojiang fell in love with Xu Zhaoqing, a widow 10 years his senior, in Jiangjin county nearly 100 kilometers north of Southwest China's Chongqing city. Their romance was considered taboo by locals, leading them to run away and settle on a 1,500-meter mountain. Liu spent the next 50 years carving more than 6,000 steps into the mountain to make it easier for Xu to ascend and descend. Dubbed the "love ladder," the stairway and Liu's love for Xu was the subject of a movie last year. Xu died at the age of 87 on October 30, while Liu died in 2007 aged 72. The local government has since announced a 2.6-billion yuan ($416.31-million) project to convert the mountain into a scenic spot for tourists, which has caused debate online.
@Recursive butterfly's dream: Liu and Xu's story touched me a lot. I wonder whether such love is realistic in this day and age. Material assets such as apartments, money and cars have tainted pure love.
@WGCHU: Compared to Liu and Xu, gold diggers seeking to marry rich men in big cities really have no clue about the meaning of true love.
@Zhaozhengping: The government should convert the mountain into a tourist attraction. This great love story should be immortalized. If the government doesn't take any protective measures, the stairway will be damaged.
@Take the train for
Zaozhuang: I'm sad about the local government's intervention. Before the love story became famous, no one cared about Liu and Xu. Now, they want to build scenic spot.
@Southern Metropolis Daily: Love is very private. Liu and Xu would no doubt feel displeased if they saw their stairway transformed into a tourist attraction. Billions of yuan in investment can be more wisely spent to fund roads, pensions and increase the livelihoods of local elderly people.
@Chongqing Economic Times: The local government claims billions of yuan will be spent not only on repairing the stairway, but also exploitation of the mountain.
@Those fabulous years: Great love only exists in our minds, and is praised by word of mouth. Liu and Xu's pure love will be disturbed if we insist on inviting many people to their mountain.
@Global Times (Chinese-language edition): Love and literature are praised for their modesty and sincerity. In both the cases of Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and this "love ladder" story, the respective local governments have announced plans to convert the relevant old residences into tourist attractions. Such behavior is blamed for destroying sincerity and modesty. But from the local governments' standpoint, it would be a waste not to explore their options. Why can't we defend our hearts from the aggressive invasion of material desires?