Posted: Soumis par wtanaka (648) le sam, 2005-10-08 04:53. | Sujet: Gansu Village Story

I found this L.A. times article (click on the following link and then scroll down a bit to read it)

http://treehouse.ofb.net/guide/viewplace?placeid=88837&lang=en

Quote:

This village on the edge of the Gobi desert entered the 21st century much as it had the previous one, with yellow sand blanketing the mountains and poor farmers sharing their mud huts with cows, donkeys and pigs....High-tech entrepreneur Sayling Wen heard about the village and decided that by harnessing the power of computers, he could beam its 30,000 inhabitants into the Information Age economy...."The plan seemed unthinkable, like jade falling from the sky," said local Communist Party secretary Zhang Xusheng....[Wen] donated 100 new computers and arranged for teachers to be trained....he began building a $50-million, 140-room hotel and convention center in the village....Just as things were looking up, Wen dropped dead.