Product Name----------------------------- "The Vanishing Village"

Production Country-----------------------Mainland, China

Length ---------------------------------------54'13"

Year/Lang-----------------------------------2007/SUBTITLE:Chinese,English / LANGUAGE: Chinese

The Vanishing Village is one segment in the documentary series The Spirit of the Shennongjia Mountains.

There was an old village - Yinyu River Village in the Shennongjia mountain area In China’s Hubei province. In the fall of 1997, a TV crew of Beijing television station set out through the 55 kilometer long Yinyu River gorge for seeing how people live in this remote mountain village, inaccessible by road and with no electric lights or power.

Unfortunately, a fall on the steep mountain trails left the director with a broken ankle, and the crew had to cut our filming short after only one week.

Three years later, the village has been demolished by the local government for environmental protection reasons. People who have lived here for generations had moved away from their beloved home, giving the land back to nature.

The wild lives that will continue to flourish in the mountains. However, they will never know what a high price these villagers have paid for their sustainable survival.