The Horizon Retreat

Over the last couple of years, the Chinese government has been partlyshifting focus towards redeveloping and sustaining the countryside, recognizingthe impact of urbanization on both the urban and rural environment. Attractingrural tourism is one of the main tools utilized. Adventurous developers andprivate investors are now following these footsteps by taking on more and morerural redevelopment projects. The countryside around Anshun in Guizhou provinceis one of the zones heavily affected by urbanization. Mostly young people haveleft their rural residences leaving them behind in further emptyingghost-villages. Superimpose was approached to redevelop such a village into arural holiday retreat and bed and breakfast location for citizens.