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CHEN BAILIANG

The project "Can't Stay" was originally shot to commemorate the land where I have lived for seven years,

hoping for a better place.

Do not know from what start, my friends in the northeast are unconsciously left this

Lee, and in the annual short meeting, discussed the future plans, but in everyone for

In my plans for the future, I never mentioned my hometown, and then I began to realize,

The northeast is no longer able to retain young people, and more and more people are choosing to go south, as well

as Japan and South Korea

The country works, the streets of northeastern cities, young people are less and less, the elderly

As the heavy industry in the early days of the founding of The People's Republic of China, the eldest son of the

People's Republic, faced with increasing shadow

With the rapid pace of improvement in the south, the northeast region appears to be somewhat unadaptable and

powerless.

But in the face of rapid population aging, the depletion of resource-based cities, and a large number of people

With the loss and economic depression, the road of northeast China still needs to be explored.Believe that the

Northeast will

Better out of the current predicament, find a better and more suitable for their own road, let more people stay

In this nutrient-rich land.Under the winter of the northeast has a kind of romantic charm, elements in the picture have

most of the industrial products, ice and snow, houses and people, these elements are relevant to northeast, is

ubiquitous, it seems to me these all represent the rise and fall of the northeast, witnessing the years passed, I hope

that through the form of photography to record these trivial with the edge of the original taste.

In the overall shooting, I deliberately selected third-tier cities and resource-exhausted cities. From these small cities, it

is more obvious to see the current situation of the real Northeast and get the most real personal experience, and the

whole is spread out around the new landscape of northeast.

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