With young people moving to the cities for work, many towns like Xiejiaqiao just a few hours from Hangzhou are left with mostly very young and elderly populations.
City lights glow through a misty summer rain near the famous West Lake in Hangzhou province.
1. Xiejiaqiao village men gather indoors for a game of mahjong during a summer afternoon storm.
5. Kitchen tools and leftover vessels sit in a Xiejiaqiao courtyard home left behind by the modernization of the village.
A old man stops chopping bamboo to stare at foreigners in Xiejiaqiao, a small village 50km north of Hangzhou.
A female worker uses large tongs to pull molten wrenches from an oven before pushing them down the assembly line.
The large machinery looms over the heads of workers at the Great Dreams Tool Co. Ltd. in Xiejiaqiao, north of Hangzhou.
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With the youth leaving the to find work in larger cities, elders are left work the land.
