JIAOJIEHE, China — Nestled among the shimmeringchestnut, walnut and peach trees of a deep valley surrounded by craggy hills, the tiny village ofJiaojiehe suffers from being close to the nation’s capital. The young flee easily to the big city,leaving the elderly behind, lonely and poor.

中国，交界河——交界河村坐落于一个长满栗子树、核桃树和桃树的山谷里，枝叶微光闪烁，四周是陡峭的山峰。因为靠近北京，这个小山村境况不佳，年轻人急于逃离农村去大城市谋生，只剩下老人在这里忍受孤独和贫穷。

In today’s China, villages like this often try to engineer a sense of well-being by opening a newmedical clinic, say, or by upgrading the water supply.

在当下的中国，像这样的村子都会通过开设新诊所，或者升级供水系统，来尝试着让人们感到生活水平的提高。

But Li Xiaodong, an award-winning architect who fuses traditional Chinese ideas of designwith Western themes, had a different idea for Jiojiehe. He was captivated by the potential hesaw in the village’s most abundant natural resource, the branches of its thousands of trees,which the locals harvest for fuel.

但是，屡获殊荣的杰出建筑师李晓东对交界河村有不同的想法。这位擅长把传统的中国设计理念和西方建筑主题融合在一起的建筑师，被这个村子最为丰富的的自然资源吸引，并从中看到了潜力。这种资源就是树枝，来自该村的成千上万棵树木。村民通常收集树枝作为柴火。

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