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Unbelievable, this is a small remote town in western part China, and it's so well managed and maintained, with very good public facilities, life there is so good. I think I'm totally misled by the western media.

I am in love with China ! Something about the Chinese civilization is so unique... It has survived so many thousands of years. Maybe its the meritocracy... maybe its the legalist, confucian values idk

Even small town like this in remote part of China looks quite modern with everything you need to have a fairly comfortable life. China really cares.

The U.S. government said that the Tibetans in China were persecuted and genocide, and their lives were very difficult, but an American lady traveled happily in the Tibetan area, the pictures were so beautiful, and the Tibetans on the street must be actors arranged by the Chinese government.🤣🤣🤣

They say Tibetans are being persecuted horribly.. and yet here we are! Life's still good for small few Tibetans, living high above and far away from the busy lifestyle of Chengdu👍

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China has many narrowest cities/towns. If I do a search I get Yanjin in Yunnan as the narrowest. There are also some abandoned ones in Yunnan, some were previous mining towns. There are more Tibetans in other provinces than in Tibet. On our way to Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan we passed many Tibetan towns and villages. The people there are probably more native to Sichuan than to Tibet. Someone told me that Sichuan produces many famous Tibet singers, like Alan Dolma, Kawa, etc.

Thanks for the video! Although I am Chinese-American but I never had the chance to travel to so many places you visited in China, and showed with such genuine sentiment! You are a good person!

This town/city reminds me of Aguas Calientes, where you board your mini-bus to go up to Mach Picchu. The raging river looks similar. Of course, its flanked by high mountains. Oh, what a memory. Thanks for another insightful video showing normal people's life, which haters described as miserable. Haha.

“Tashi delek” (བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།), I get used to it by this Tibetan common greetings 😅This tiny town river looks so clean 👍. 8:00 My grandma used to do that but with rice and salt to each corner of the house, for the same reason that Wei told you.

The narrowest city that gave us the widest smiles! :D

这个地区位于两大板块挤压的横断山脉，地理因素注定了这里很多城市都位于大峡谷的开阔地带。 自古交通不便、多发地震带使得本地区很少受外来影响，保存了许多少数民族独特文化和未被破坏的自然景观。

几年前跟朋友自驾去西北环线旅行，从甘肃到青海，真的很美，除了风景的美还有那种民族融合的美，其中也去过一个类似这样的小镇，藏族，蒙古族都有 四周都是山 虽然城市建设并不发达 但那种安逸与民族融合的感觉 特舒服 现在都经常会想起这样的感觉 啊 说起来 真的好久没有出去旅行了 人只有在大自然里才能感觉到自己是存在的 现在每天机器一样的生活 有时候真觉得快坚持不下去了 真想找个与大自然挨得很近的小镇去生活 感谢阳 让我从你的视频里得到能量 愿你一切都好 ❤

As a former Chinese economic researcher. In underdeveloped areas of China, it is difficult to run a small town. In many cases, 70% or more of the local fiscal expenditure of such small towns depends on the central government to pay.

I cannot help but noticed how clean and orderly this town 得荣 is. And the people seems so friendly and nice; and living comfortable lives. Cheers to you and your husband as you continue to bring bridges for China to the world through your interesting videos. God Bless! :)

Its surprising to see streets are clean & free of graffiti . people seems happy with well kept apartments , clean market with nice people . I proud of you touring china not just big & well known cities but the remote town as well . Would like to see my dads birth place in fujian province how well developed it will be now a days . We were taught to speak Fukien by our parents & still fluent with some Mandarin on hand but not an expert like you . It does make it an advantage for me to use it in Taiwan since that is their dialect with different accent rather than speak Mandarin where I will certainly get lost . Singaporians do speak same dialect with no accent as well . So proud of you going to China as an American & liking it . In California were im currently now , spanish is another crucial language to learn . More power to you & making all those videos .

I appriciate your vlogs. They provide an unique perspective even locals may not notice. You can always find interesting aspects among daily mundant things. What's more important is that putting these videos on KZfaq make the world see China better. Many people in the west today still see China as a poor and oppressed country. Recording your journeys as it is without any political affiliation is the best way to fight misinformation. Thank you! Keep up the good work!

This is like travel food vlog but without the food very cool, again thank both of you I can enjoy a walking around these places. Can't wait to see where both of you will take us next. I also want to add that these type of video releases stress from a long day of work for me and all the bad stuff happening around the world.

Thanks for showing us these unknown parts of China through your travels, stay safe and keep posting.

Amazing even small city is still neat n clean

Derong, Sichuan Province on the map is quite close to the border with Myanmar. It is another 10 hours away by car from Litang, Sichuan province, which is where the viral internet star 丁真珍珠 lives. He is also from Tibetan tribes and was a herdsman prior to his burst onto the social media scene. In these remote places one finds the modern world reaching into the old leisurely ways. Fascinating.

这么多外国人讲中国的视频，我最喜欢看阳离子的

Nice video Katherine. Thanks for sharing otherwise we will not have a chance to see such cute beautiful place. Even though the city is super small it is fully equipped with everything especially food. I am specially amazed by the super cleanliness. The govt really takes care of their citizens.

Very particular city. I love this kind of city and most likely they couldn't help but build it in length and the result is undoubtedely amazing, a very tiny little city with a characteristic Tibetan architecture. Really nice. It reminds me of the towns of Buthan (seen in the videos) Thanks a lot for this beautiful video

最窄的应该是雅江县城吧。而且，如果喜欢德荣，我相信你们会更加喜欢康定。这是在两山之间，也有康定河，还有跑马山，祝愿你们愉快、平安！

I would love to spend a week long vacation in that town.It's so peaceful with amazing scenarios around. And people are so friendly.

You are a terrific tour guide. You already provide answers to most of my questions. Thank you for bringing me along your adventures.

❤️❤️❤️🥰Katherine . Here is what I tried to post you earlier -- There are always good people here in US as welll in China . Where we choose to live is where we feel most comfortable place . Sometime people want to do the opposite because they would rather choose to explore their life , they enjoy learning new things , they enjoy challenges because they know that’s how they can learn more when they have more opportunities to go through challenges . When we face any difficulties in life, the more challenges we face , the more we can learn to be humble through the things and experience we could not see before and able to experience after we took the chance and this allows us to learn to improve more so we can be better everyday and become greater then ever in the future . God doesn’t give us everything we need right away but He gives us opportunities to learn through our experiences in order to help us to see what we could not see and learn what he wants us to learn . Sometimes can take longer for us to receive His lessons and blessings , sometimes it takes shorter . It’s because if we need more times to recognize our weakness before we literally can make changes then the times of facing challenges will shorten because we see our problems and we are able to face them , we find wisdom , determination and courage to resolve solution instead of avoid a difficult situation. Sometimes we can be too comfortable where we are so we don’t get to adjust different situations as much as we want to .. we only can learn improve when we don’t always keep in too comfortable zone specially while people are still young need to improve or a place a country needs to experience all kind of situations in order to stay only the way it is always think it’s the best place when nothing is difficult for rest or people to work harder to improve . We must have opportunities to rxpose difficult situations in order for us to learn from our mistakes abs keratin from others before we can improve our mind , increase our wisdom and strength . The live style we choose and who we choose to be friends with is going to lead us to different path . Life is full of surprises and challenges, but at the end this journey will end just like Wei’s mom and my mom. No o e is exception , It’s why we try to do the best we can no matter if I could only breath one min , one day or o e year because we don’t want to live with regret so we treat everyday as last day not because we think death all the time , it’s because we think about what more we can do while we could still move , take care of ourselves or be a provider to help others who need us and how to use the best of our times while we can before we end of our journey so we live without regret . US is big just like China . I trust you Katherine have good understanding about see things in different ankle in any situations anywhere you go If I ever go to China , I’m sure there are people will treat me nice and there are people won’t . No one needs to treat us kind with good manners but if they do I appreciate and in return I will do more for them because that’s how I was raised . If they don’t I like me or for any reasons someone can be rude to me , I know they don’t know me and I don’t spend much times to know why they are the way they are . I also know one thing is certain that how we treat others is the way how we want to be treated and the way we behave is telling people where we come from and how we were raised because our behavior is not only representing ourselves but we are very much representing our family , part of our culture and the way how we were raised by our parents The moment we walk out to speak and interact with others , we represent more then just ourselves and it naturally shows how we were raised . Katherine , your passion , kindness and stay open minded will always represent yourself , your parents and how you were raised . It’s why you l chose to go to China wanting to explore different people and different things and by learning these experiences has enriched your life even more .. this is who you are and how you become the way you are . We must remind ourselves that they are many situations can be challenges but that’s how we can increase our wisdom, patience and be determined . No one is able to be wiser , more humble and become useful and successful without much challenges in life We always want to do the best by trying to have good communication , stay open minded , stay strong , stay humble as well as stay positive so we can continue learning , continue feel blessed and continue improving in anything we do with anyone we meet . I want you to remember Love and blessings will be around you whenever you are and I recall in one of the videos you said when US had all manufactory moved outside of US to China and other countries that doesn’t mean hiding the pollution outside of the US will make them go away because we all live in the same planet , you chose to study environmental engineering is because your goal is to trying improve the environment and you chose to study in China is able to learn , see and hope one day you can help from where you choose to learn and go to the places where you can be helpful when you fully understand we are all connect to each other living in the same planet . I hope you still remember your passion and no matter where you are , where you go , your passion and your goal no matter where you live , any places you decide to go ,your passion ，your enthusiasm in learning and helping others will remain in your heart to make this world a better place . This is how it started me to make me have desire to watch your video , your journey . You have showed your motivation of learning and got off from your comfort zone , you have passion to help and you want to make differences . Goals are just goals unless we have actin in order to achieve our goals to make our dream come true and then we will see the differences in our life abs other people’s life because what we try to do . I take time to watch your video because I want you to feel I am not just watching beautiful view as someone who tries to browse anything because I could be bored . I’m watching you because your passion , your goals , what you said , what you did or do and sharing your thoughts , life experiences with us . Knowing you are away from home , we want to support you . It’s been while we started to watch your blog and it used to be mom and me ,. After my mom passed away , I feel depressed but I see how much you try to encourage Wei to help him to move on life , your love abs patience touched my heart again . I continue taking time to watch you , even thoigh I had to travel to be out of town but I still remind myself to check on your video and your updates and write my feedbacks just want to simply support you and Wei . I hope you will always remixing your dream and goals and work on your dream to make differences in your life and other people as well . We want to make this world better because we are sharing the same planet . Please remember that I’m here to support you not only with words if you ever need us please let us know Take care Hope we get to meet in any part of this world one day when we both are alive able to walk and eat . 🥰 Sending Love and blessings to you both 💕💕🙏

Tashi Delek 🙏 ( since we’re in Tibetan areas). I never miss your videos and I always, always enjoy them. Also I learn so much from them. If Marco Polo had a camera I imagine he’d be like you 😀

Thank you for the beautiful tour. 🙏

Looks like such a cool city! I definitely want to visit!

as always, love your videos, Katherine and Wei. Thank you for sharing the beautiful places!

Nice to see you back sis, thank you for your trip reports, Gbu

Well done Katherine for another wonderfully taken and genuine vlog. This is the third I watch, so soothing. Can imagine living in one of those apartments by the river, far from stress while enjoying fresh veggie.

Thanks Katherine for another awesome vlog. I thoroughly enjoy your adventure in China.

The kids are speaking Sichuan dialect. Too cute.

this tiny city is good enuff for my daily life with less hectic than most cities...great video!

Thank you. Showing us a beautiful place. Appreciate.

Very beautiful little narrow city, excellent city planning.

👍👍👍👍👏👏 thank you for sharing your travel log and journey in China , always enjoy watching. 🙏

This place is so unique. China is amazing.👍

Thank you for another fascinating place, amazing trip.

Beautiful town, happy life.

I watched your clip twice, will watch it again, again...Love this place.

Thank you for sharing such a remote place

omgg this little city is sooo adorable and those new Tibetan buildings with the yellow and red are soo cute and so Tibetan omg I am likee in awe

Such a unique small city, super cute indeed as well very tidy. And congrats for reaching 70k followers.

So peaceful!!!

This city looks so magical...!

Fantastic place. It shows how to build houses so close to the river and at the same time not destroy it.

Really nice city, thanks for showing us Katherine!!

Absolutely love your vlogs.feels like traveling with you.

The village you were in looked fantastic for a small place..it looked very together .a place I think I could live in..quite surprised to see such a lovely place ..great video..thanks..

In this remote town of Derong, some Tibetan children asked you in English, amazing

This is a charming town. Thanks for the videos for taking us to these beautiful remote places in China Those kids are cute to be addressing you "laowy". In SE Asia , they would call you "auntie".

I've seen documentaries of this place. And I believe there's another similar one somewhere in China where all the buildings are painted red. It also has a river running over it like this and mountainous on both sides. Anyway it's a nice place.

Cool, so authentic

Thanks for sharing us the beautiful and vibrant China

Great! I hope that there are more and more western youtuber like you go to China, esp. go to Tibet and XingJiang, and show the normal life of average people there.

A so interesting tiny city.

💕💕💕💕💕🥰Katherine Words can’t describe how delightful I’m to see your smile and watching laughters from Wei and people around you . Your happiness is Wei’s happiness and you do the same for him which I can tell . We try to take a moment to cherish what we see , people who are alive next to us because the best gift we can give is time because when we give our time is to give part of our life that will never come back but we also get the opportunity to explore , opportunity to learn and opportunities to create beautiful memories . Cherish our loved ones while we can breath , while we can walk to close to someone , someone we love , someone who loves us and anyone who needs us the most . Make the best use of our life cherish every moment we can do what we do for others and ourselves . Make our life journey meaningful and and unforgettable . No matter what circumstances, I hope you always enjoy every little daily thing with Wei . Take care. Looking forward to see your next video 🙏💕💕💕💕💕💕

Nice quaint little town. It's such an anticipation now waiting to hear what Wei will say to sign off in the video.

Another fantastic video Katherine, at this rate I may not have to visit these wonderful places. Very informative and I look forward to your next post. Thank you and keep up the great work.

把小县城都拍的这么漂亮，真用心

What a cute little town. I really love your videos!

哇，又是一个我没听说过的小地方。太棒了！真喜欢你们拍的视频。

Interesting tour of another small city in China. Love it!

如此偏远的小城我实在无法想象二三十年前那里是什么样的，不过我可以相信现在她随着中国高速发展的列车改变的很美丽，感谢你的分享。

the best channel for seeing china without visiting it. Thank you Katherine, hope someday i can visit China

太喜欢这个小城了，so unique!

Awesome video! Funny as I kept seeing pictures of this city last week on my fb feed.

Enterprising folks planting vege n herbs in polystyrene boxes.

Kathy you are so lucky , seize the moment ! After 35 or 40 years if you didn’t make these trips , you would feel extremely regret ! Do what you want to do , while years gone by which will never have such physical capability to fulfill your dreams . That’s it !

Love every single clip you make. You rock

Very interesting Katherine...for sharing this wonderful narrowest China City.....Perth, W. Australia

The narrowest city in China is Yunnan's Yan Jin 盐津县。 It's in Zhao Tong City, on the other side of Yunnan.

Cool little mountain city

Gladly!

it is very exciting for me to watch you explore one of my hometown's little city, and am living in Tokyo at this moment, can you believe this kind of feeling 🤩 oh and you should check the city of garze and seda, you'll be amazed!

Another interesting vlog. Very interesting city. I would love to live here, looks very relaxing. Thanks for sharing. 👌👌🙏🙏

So peaceful

I really enjoy your videos, it's almost like we're traveling with you to these distant places. This one reminded me of another I saw maybe a year ago "Aerial China:China's narrowest county Yanjin County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province". Thank you very much for making these videos and sharing :-) You mentioned you studied environmental engineering in other videos - wondering if you can explore that in future videos and give examples of how that is applied in the real world, in China.

Never seen this kind of lanscape in SE Asia.Uniquely beautiful

I just love this series of videos you are making. They are just so good.

Thank you for sharing your lovely experience! 🙏🏻🤗 I love the vibe of the place; it seems quite laid back and chilled. Also, I love how it is not a tourist spot and not spoiled with all the other touristy things and fast food joints like KFC or McDonalds (or Maccas as we call it here in Australia).

Great Content. Thank you U both.

You are a good US good-will ambassador, always friendly! Always you get smiles.

这种小城市是真的能享受慢生活

7:14 I like that "Yo Yo Tashi Delek", so cool and grass root friendly.

厲害👍🏻

好特别的小镇，干净整洁👍

More tibet and qinghai content pls i love it 😊

thank you , you do a good job, as a chinese , i never know this place ,,,,unbelieveable, it's a beautiful small city

Wonderful video, as always.

good to see people able to travel freely in China.... hope will be our case again here soon in Shanghai

An otherwise pretty quiet or even stagnant place in an obscure location indeed. Thank you for sharing the trip of you guys passing through this small town (not sure about the population, but it's probably still quite big since China has such a huge population) hidden in the mountain pass.

The Dali Lama says everyone in Tibet is miserable according to US media. Somebody's not telling the truth.

I swear I was thinking of why can’t “we” build affordable housing with a hotel within said building where the residents would “operate” it. So I love the building concept of your hotel. I also love how the residents seem to enjoy their lives. I noticed a mix of young and old folks living there too. Thanks for sharing Katherine! 💙💙✌🏾

City by the river👍💕