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| The Last Raft | | Two workers on the 60-squaer-meter raft are drifting down in the Duliujiang River, Guizhou Province on December 26.
The Congjiang County of Guizhou Province is one of the most important woods producing areas in Mainland China. The raft-making and raft-drifting industries, two pillars of the local economy, can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty (15 century AD) due to the inconvenience of the land route condition. As the result of the ban on natural woodcutting promulgated since 1998, the scale of local raft drifting became gradually reduced. With a series of power station construction projects on the bank along the riverside in the near future, raft-drifting industry will become history. (Xinhua News Agency) |
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