Heyang County is a central agricultural county with depleted resources. In the autumn of 2008, County Magistrate Cheng Shian returned to his hometown after an absence of thirty years and proposed a city-building plan to "rebuild Heyang in five years." He wanted to rebuild an ancient city in a county town with only a few sections of adobe walls remaining.
Demolition, fund raising, repairing city walls, building new districts - in the past five years, he has been embedded in every construction site in Heyang like a brick. . . . .
"Building a City" is not an ode to achievements, nor is it an anti-corruption proclamation. It is about a man who spent five years building a wall, and the wall lasted longer than the man.
