# Daxing'anling
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A Thousand Cold Kilometres for a New Year Reunion: Duty, Family and the Quiet Rituals of China’s Border Guards
A northern border garrison in China became the site of a 40-hour family reunion when a soldier who has served 19 years welcomed his wife and children for the Lunar New Year. The story symbolises the personal costs of long deployments, the logistical demands of frontier posts, and the way state media uses such vignettes to frame the PLA as both dutiful and domestically rooted.
Walls of Keepsakes: How Remote Northern Outposts Turn Memory into Mission
Soldiers at three remote posts in the Daxing'anling forest have transformed dormitory walls into visual records of endurance and craft—photographs, grain mosaics and birch‑bark bookmarks that memorialize repairs, promotions and family ties. These grassroots practices sustain morale, preserve tacit knowledge and underscore how routine, low‑tech labor keeps strategic communications links alive in extreme winter conditions.