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Heshun Township - Homeplace
of Overseas Chinese
Heshun is 3 kilometers away from Tongchong
Town in the southwest. The title of the township derives
from a verse describing "the rising clouds that herald
auspicious future and the gentle breeze that brings peace
and harmony." Heshun is famous homeplace of overseas
Chinese. Since ancient times, it has been a place where"eight
or nine out of ten people do business in Burma". The
town consists of over 13,000 households and over 6,300 people.
There are over 6,000 people who live abroad, almost as many
as the people living in Heshun. They are in Europe, America
Australia, Southeast Asia, etc. These overseas Chinese and
their relatives make up 80% of the town's total population.
Everywhere in Heshun you can see simple
and elegant memorial halls or archways, pavilion and marble
balustrades. Heshun Library, built in 1924 and known as
"the cradle of Culture", is the earliest and biggest
library at the township level in China. It houses 60,000
volumes of books, many of which are rare editions of ancient
works, some being the only copies. Over the door of the
library is a horizontal board with inscriptions by Hu Shi
and Li Shiceng, Yiqun middle School, which was set up in
1940 and has produced a large number of professionals, has
over 1,000 students now.
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