Last week I arrived1 the far﹣away country village where I grew up, in a place now popular with tourists. I remembered the two old shops and2 number of old houses in the hills. I realized very quickly3 in fact hardly anything is the same although in many ways it appears unchanged.
All the traditional houses are there, of course, and both the shops. But none of the houses are4 by local people. All of5 belong to city people, who arrive every weekend in their cars.
Neither of the shops6 local goods these days, they have expensive foreign food chosen by somebody in an office who has little7 of the place.
There are a few houses too,8 they have no local character. You can see the same style anywhere in China. In fact, the whole village9 so much that it is no more interesting than any street in the past thirty years. In my opinion,10 a pity it is!
