30 years, 7 hand-drawn maps: a tale of Guancheng River's rebirth
By: Global Times | Published: Jun 05, 2026 10:32 PM
Over the past 30 years, 89-year-old Lei Yueqin has created seven hand-drawn maps documenting the revival of the Guancheng River in Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou Province. In a 2004 drawing, the waterway was shaded gray and labeled as a "dead river." After the remediation work that began in 2019, Lei ...