Loess Growth Rings

No one imagined that beneath the loess of northern Shaanxi lay black gold capable of changing fate and reshaping the world.

He witnessed the wild frenzy of illegal oil drilling and lived through the thunderous storm of the three-power reclamation. He saw the whole population grow rich during the golden decade of coal, and watched the devastation left behind when the bubble burst.

From the glory days of print media to the wave of integrated media, from recording the times to taking part in building them, twenty years passed in the blink of an eye.

When the energy legend of the loess plateau came to an end, he put down his pen and plunged into the rise of cultural tourism.

He had once been a bystander to his era. In the end, he became a builder of his hometown.

The loess can bury the noise, but it cannot bury hope that keeps on living.