Quite a few foreign invisible rich
Settle down here
They feel at home in the northern China village
No one wants to leave
This is Beigou Village, Bohai Town, Hairou District, Beijing
My name is Kan Dong
I'm the mother of two
I've lived here for 10 years
Beigou is a small village with only over 130 households
It has a history of about two centuries
And it is known for Jiankou Great Wall
It has a broken sense of beauty, disrepair
10 years ago
No one know about the place
Everything was in ruins
My husband was doing some rural reconstruction work
He likes the villagers a lot
So we decided to stay and build a house
A big part of our savings were spent on this
Our house cost less than five million
My husband would spend a lot of time on the observation deck
To feel the power of the Great Wall
And he would show it to our guests
Again and again, tirelessly
In 2015
We wanted to build a new hostel
An abandoned gas station
There are 8 houses
We built the houses together
His (architect) team
Designers from Portugal, Canada
And a Japanese guy
The four young people
Became good friends with Wang Yi, a construction worker in the village
And Erjiu, who did cleaning work
They taught them about construction
In four years
They tried with different materials
A single brick and tile
Walnut, rock, red brick
Diatom mud is used indoors
They must connect with the village
It won a few architecture awards
Empty the village, construct buildings
And fill them with culture
That's not our plan
We want to make a living, vibrant village
First thing first
Is organizing lectures
Two hours a day
And now the villagers of Beigou
Have their own careers
They make five to eight thousand yuan a month
It's common
Foreigners spend their retirement here too
Many of them speak Chinese
And they call each other by last names such as Lao Zhang
There are about 30 foreign households
They are not just nobody 60 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,200 We have the third richest people in Canada
A billionaire doing oil, cosmetics and medical business
Living here
Just walking my dogs makes me very happy
Because you are embraced by beautiful nature
I also am Jewish
Twice a year
I invite my Jewish friends here
I designed a game
Questions about the countryside
Give them a chance to explore
Get to know more about Chinese rural areas
Such as
There is a special kind of bed designed to keep warm in winter
You need to take a picture with someone sitting on his bed
The countryside that we created
Is a dream life of city dwellers
I've been to a handful of villages, but this one is different
The villagers learn about Chinese traditional culture
Like "San Zi Jing"
Very polite
When we first came here
The color of the village was color plates
And now it's the color of Sansa
We live by the 24 solar terms
We do what should be done at Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and Grain Full
Once a month we'd eat at other's home
Just walk down the road and eat at random houses
At the Double Ninth Festival, we invite the senior citizens to dinner
And make friends with them
For people over 70 years old
We have a canteen
Which offers two free meals daily
The old will be provided for
With the Great Wall, with the landscape
Everyone would love the place