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Tieshan Cement Factory is located in Guilin City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China. The factory was built in 1996 and played an important role in Guilin’s economic development and urban construction. However, because it was originally located in the Li River Scenic Area of Guilin, the cement factory has now been relocated, leaving behind the old buildings, water towers, pools and railway tracks.

Li Fan is a professor of Shaanxi Normal University, dean of Institute of Silk Road Photographic Art, and vice chairman of Shaanxi Photographers Association, and has won the China Photography Golden Image Award, the Gold Medal of the National Photography Art Exhibition, the first prize of the professional category of the 2015 and 2023 Sony World Photography Awards and the first prize of the China Region of the National Geographic Photo Contest.