What is the secret of multi-ethnic unity in Ma'anshan?

China.org.cn

2022-10-28 00:00 1206

BEIJING, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn on the Ma'anshan Village, where local multi-ethnic families have changed their surroundings and have successfully lifted poverty.

In Asia, you will find a blend of different cultures. But in China, you will be surprised to see different ethnic groups which centuries ago used to live at odds, yet now under a new era they coexist within loving families helping each other and adding new vitality to national development. Ma'anshan, located in Kharchin, a banner of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is a place where multi-ethnic families have realized that by living together like one being they can transform everything around them in a far better place.

Ma'anshan is a village where Mongols, Manchus and Han live together and where ethnic minorities which accounts for 46,8% of the local population. Some decades ago, the natural habitat had been almost decimated by overgrazing, which made realized the locals that irrespective their ethnic background, the mountains were the most important source of incomes, live-giving horn of plenty for hundreds of families and that regardless what cultural differences they may have, all of them needed to work hand in hand to save the forest.

Now the natural habitat that surrounds the village is excellent and the forest coverage reaches 90.2 %. To realize this dream, people in Ma'anshan had to suspend all the farming activities in the mountains to reforest its lands, while at the same time they developed some other activities, including farmhouses and wine and tourist industries in micro environments around the mountains, thus dramatically rising their incomes, improving the natural surroundings and forming a harmonious development concept based upon unity of different ethnic groups to achieve a common goal.

Do you want to see a family where Han and Manchus share the same food like real blood brothers? Or even better, do you want to see how loving multi-ethnic families work together to develop local economic industries? Then you must come to Ma'anshan, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where souls are connected, emotions are merged and unity is a force that drives human motivation.