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《中國日報》高級記者、“美國小哥”Erik Nilsson（中文名：聶子瑞），來華十餘年間，作為一名記者和志願者，曾經去過中國許多貧困地區，見證了這些地區日新月異的變化。
《太陽升起――“美國小哥”見證中國扶貧奇跡》，濃縮作者多年來親身探索中國的扶貧方案、災後救援，以及整體發展的報道，他親歷的那些鮮活生動的故事，彰顯出在全球背景下中國解決貧困問題的重要性和麵臨的特殊挑戰。
本書從汶川地震講起，讀者可以看到，貧困和地理環境所導致的悲劇終將在救援和重建中被克服，在這片無數生命逝去的地方，人們也將重拾希望；然後作者將去往“地球第三極”青藏高原，在那裡，中國克服了極端惡劣的自然條件等不利因素，給高原帶來了短短幾年前還不可想像的富裕；隨後作者回顧了過去十多年裡採訪過的全國各地的扶貧項目，包括貴州鄉村的虛擬現實娛樂公園、內蒙古牧民開辦的鴯鶓農場等；最後，作者花了5個星期採訪長江經濟帶沿岸數千公里的11座城市，以極限沉浸的形式來分析改革開放如何驅動了中國的扶貧奇跡。書中附有相關報道的漢英雙語短視頻，可讓讀者獲得更加直觀的感受。
本書分中、英兩個文版，國際化的表達方式，將更加有助於國際社會瞭解中國和中國人民；而對於那些對書中的一些話題已經有所瞭解的中國讀者，Nilsson的作品也提供了一個嶄新的視角。
CLOSER TO HEAVEN: A Global Nomad's Journey Through China's Poverty Alleviation distills China Daily journalist Erik Nilsson's firsthand explorations of the country's poverty solutions, disaster relief and overall development over more than a decade.
It's not your typical China book.
The American discovers unexpected dimensions of these miracles while riding ostriches, visiting leprosy villages and spending birthdays at a mass grave. Along the way, he also rides, buys, milks and is kicked by yaks, whose dung he collects while camping with nomads on the planet's “third pole”.
He begins in Sichuan after the 2008 Wenchuan quake left nearly 90,000 dead or missing. Across 15 trips through the disaster zone, he discovers a place where poverty and geology conspired to conjure tragedy that was overcome through rescue and recovery ― where life was lost and hope was found.
Nilsson then continues on to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where China has overcome extraordinary altitudes and isolation to bring prosperity that was unthinkable only several years ago. He founds a volunteer initiative to bring light to schools on the plateau by providing solar panels, followed by computers, libraries, medicine, coal, clothes, equipment and even yaks. He goes on to provide surgeries, prosthetics and wheelchairs for children with disabilities and university scholarships for nomads living in extreme poverty.
He next investigates diverse poverty-alleviation projects during his travels through every province on the Chinese mainland, from rural virtual-reality amusement parks in Guizhou to emus raised by ethnic Mongolian nomads.
Finally, he examines the reform and opening-up that has propelled the development necessary to drive China's poverty-alleviation miracle ― through extreme immersion. He joins the “bangbang army”, rides hogs with an elderly motorcycle club and steers a pill-sized gut-drone camera with a joystick while traveling thousands of kilometers to 11 cities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt over five weeks.
Nilsson's personal chronicle arrives as China prepares to celebrate the first of its centenary goals ― to eradicate extreme poverty to ultimately build a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
