Reuters reports: Nanjie village of Luohe city in China's central Henan province, with more than 3,100 residents, is touted to be one of the remaining models of communist China, where the principles of morality and collectivism of the late Chairman Mao still strictly guide the people's daily lives.
Aside from free housing, healthcare, food rations and education, locals working in the village's factories receive an average salary of 2500 yuan, about 400 dollars. The village's return to communism came at the same time as the rest of the country opened up to the capitalist market in the mid 1980s.
Beijing-based Reuters photographer Jason Lee created these images on Sept. 24 and made them available to NBC News today.