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Ruby is a small incorporated town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States, located about 60 miles northeast of the state capital of Baton Rouge and adjacent to the Mississippi border, and characterized by a quiet rural atmosphere and a deep community culture. Sparsely populated, with fewer than 500 people according to the most recent census, the town dates back to the late 1800s and, with its early rise to an agricultural economy (e.g., cotton and soybean farming), still retains the rustic look of a traditional Southern town. The town's landmarks include a century-old community church and several Victorian-style homes, and the annual fall "Ruby Family Day," which blends elements of local Cajun and Creole culture, has become a shared memory for the surrounding residents. Despite its small size, Ruby epitomizes the serenity of the American countryside with its simple folk and distinctive Louisiana southern flavor.
Zhuanglang County is located in Pingliang City, Gansu Province, in the hinterland of Loess Plateau at the western foot of Liupan Mountains, with a total area of 1,553 square kilometers and a population of about 450,000 people. Here to "terraced kingdom" is famous, from the 1960s, after more than 30 years of hard work, in more than 25 degrees of steep slopes to build horizontal terraces of nearly one million acres, by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations named "global ecological construction of the 500 best", become the Loess Plateau ecological management model. It has become a model for the ecological management of the Loess Plateau. The terraced fields of Zhuanglang have layers and layers of scenery in all seasons, with green waves rolling in the spring and golden spikes filling the mountains in the fall, which is not only "China's model county of terracing", but also a green pearl for the integrated development of rural tourism and eco-agriculture. The local production of apples, potatoes and other agricultural products, relying on the terraced landscape development of eco-tourism, showing a vivid practice of harmonious coexistence of man and nature.