There are many elderly people like Old Li in Yunqiao Village.
It's no exaggeration to say that in a poor mountain village like theirs, with no more than thirty households, about one-third of the people are of Old Li's age group.
The village didn't start off with so few people; there once were over two hundred households.
But as times have developed and prices have risen, the mountain village has gradually fallen behind. It's only lively for a few months around the Spring Festival each year.
That's because everyone under sixty has gone out to find work.
Even though the work is not easy for those in their fifties and sixties, mainly consisting of rather grueling jobs paying a mere dozen or so yuan per hour, they mostly rely on overtime pay.
But with elders to care for and children who might just be starting their own families, buying houses and cars, and educating their children, which expense can be avoided?
