Gift from Chinese hometown warms US elder's heart

In 1932, David Victor Plymire, then less than a year old, was carried by his parents from New York to Huangyuan County in northwest China's Qinghai Province. He spent the next 17 years there, growing up in the place he would always call home.

He came back in 1987. In the decades since, he has made more than 20 round trips across the Pacific, making the rounds in the United States to raise funds and purchase supplies for the county.

Those efforts have brought more than 30 pieces of medical equipment, worth a total of 6 million yuan (about $895,000), to Huangyuan County People's Hospital.

Today, at 95, Plymire still calls Huangyuan his hometown. Recently, a gift from the county arrived at his home in Missouri in the US. Half a world away, his bond with the land where he grew up has never broken.