Journey to a remote Chinese county that a US citizen calls home

Our first stop was Huangyuan County People's Hospital, where I found the small exhibition hall dedicated to him. At the entrance stood a CT scanner with a tag indicating that it was donated by Mr David Plymire in 2000 and valued at $350,000 at the time of donation.

Inside the room, alongside other retired equipment he had donated, I saw a list: a fetal monitor, an electrocardiograph, an ultrasound machine and much more, totaling 31 items since 1989, with a combined worth of approximately 6 million yuan (about $895,500).

Looking at the long and impressive list in awe, I assumed that Plymire must be a wealthy man.

Soon, however, I found out that my assumption was wrong.