Dongfeng County () is located in southwestern

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province, China and is under the administration of

Liaoyuan Liaoyuan () is a prefecture-level city in Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It is bounded on the west and south by Tieling of Liaoning province, west and north by Siping, and east by Tonghua and Jilin City. Liaoyuan lies some south of C ...

City. It is mainly agricultural with the main crops being wheat and maize (corn). Its major industry is a

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(Dongfeng Yaoye), after which the county town's main street is named. Deer are also raised for their meat and antlers, which are used in

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. It is a relatively poor county with salaries starting at Y300. Many people in the county town are unemployed and rely on riding "daoqilu" (pedicabs where the driver is seated at the back and the passengers at the front) and tuk tuks to make a living. The county is linked by a single track railway to Liaoyuan and Siping in one direction and

Meihekou Meihekou () is a city of 600,000 in Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It is a regional transport hub, connecting three railway lines, all of which are single track, and 2 national highways. The city is also a major lorry transshipment po ...

in the other, with trains running to

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Tonghua Tonghua () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It borders North Korea's Chagang Province to the south and southeast, Baishan to the east, Jilin City to the north, Liaoyuan to the northwest, and ...

and Changchun amongst other places. There is also a frequent bus service to Meihekou, the nearest large town, which can also be reached by

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for Y20 or Y5 a person. Buses also link Dongfeng with Liaoyuan, Siping, Changchun, Shenyang, and other cities and counties. Temperatures range from up to 30 C in the short summer to minus 30 or even minus 40 C in the long winter, during which snow covers the ground and the rivers and drains are iced up. Most of the people living in Dongfeng are

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, but there are also scattered

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communities, and a Korean Township. However, the local media do not have any

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programmes or newspapers to cater for them and many of the Koreans in Dongfeng have lost their Korean language skills even though there is a Korean language secondary school and a Korean church available to them.

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