It ’s time to tell your grandpa to stop kick about walking uphill both ways to school . Last hebdomad , the province - runBeijing Newsran a series of shot by lensman Chen Jie that showed 15 school kids in the land ’s mountainous Sichuan province journey to class . To get there , the scholarly person have to leave their tiny rural village ofAtuleer , and wax over 2500 feet down a bold , half - mil drop-off using a chain of 17 bamboo ladders secured to the stone , CNN report .
The tripper is so arduous that the schoolchildren , ages 6 to 15 , board at the schoolhouse and only return home once every two weeks . As for the so - called “ sky ladders , " they ’re nearly as old as the rural Greenwich Village . " We replace a run with a unexampled one when we incur one of them is rotten , " Chen Jigu , a house physician of the Atuleer village , toldChina Daily .
These preventative bill are n’t always enough . Aluteer ’s chief , Api Jiti , toldBeijing Newsthat seven or eight villager have die after falling from the ladders , and that plenty more have been injure .
According to the Associated Press , fall out the circulation of Chen Jie ’s pictures , local government officials are now taking steps to secure the state ’s residents a safe journey . Last Friday , they issue a news show sack state Atuleer ’s residents will be provided with a Modern solidification of blade stairs until they think of a more permanent solution .
Not only are the sky ladder unsafe for kids , they ’ve also been detrimental to Atuleer ’s 400 - some residents , who are members of China ’s Yi nonage group and garner less $ 1 a twenty-four hour period as farmers . accord to the statement from the Liangshan prefectural government , traders knew that the villagers could n’t carry unsold trade good back up the cliff . This knowledge was used to work the farmers for lower price .
“ The most crucial issue at hand is to solve the transport issue , " county Communist Party Secretary General Jikejingsong reportedly enjoin in the news release . “ That will allow us to make big - plate plan about opening up the economy and appear for opportunities in tourism . ”
official are also considering building a route to the village , theGlobal Timesreports . However , the pop the question project might end up being too expensive . Experts need the villagers to relocate , but also acknowledge that they face the peril of lose their livelihoods if they move .
While China has large city filled with sensational architecture , high - velocity string , and countless other technological innovations , millions of people survive below the poverty line — particularly farmers , Johann Gottfried von Herder , and members of marginalized nonage chemical group in rural inland domain .
According toThe Guardian , President of the United States Xi Jinping aims to dramatically reduce the res publica ’s impoverishment rate by 2020 . “ Although China has made singular achievements seen across the man , China remains the macrocosm ’s large get land , ” Xi say at a conference last fall . Xi say the government plans to provide financial support to China ’s estimated 70 million rural resident . expert say that the plan does n’t take China ’s “ new urban poor people ” into account and that officials require to come up with a better solution to address the nation ’s income interruption .
keep an eye on a video recording of the children ’s cliff journeying above , courtesy ofABC News .
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