Yi Jun sits beside an old gramophone in his collection gallery at the Sun Island Scenic Resort in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 16, 2011. Yi Jun is an ordinary employee of an enterprise in Harbin. He has been interested in music since childhood. In the middle of 1960s, Yi began his collection in regard to music. So far, Yi has collected a total of 15,000 records, more than 5,000 music books and 69 gramophones. He stored those collections in a rental room and managed them according to classification. "All of them are rare files and the purest voice of Chinese and foreign artists." Yi said. The best wish of Yi is to find a bigger exhibition hall for those collections and to display them to citizens for free. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
Yi Jun looks at a piece of record outside his collection gallery at the Sun Island Scenic Resort in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 16, 2011. Yi Jun is an ordinary employee of an enterprise in Harbin. He has been interested in music since childhood. In the middle of 1960s, Yi began his collection in regard to music. So far, Yi has collected a total of 15,000 records, more than 5,000 music books and 69 gramophones. He stored those collections in a rental room and managed them according to classification. "All of them are rare files and the purest voice of Chinese and foreign artists." Yi said. The best wish of Yi is to find a bigger exhibition hall for those collections and to display them to citizens for free. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
Yi Jun (R) plays a piece of record for visitors in his collection gallery at the Sun Island Scenic Resort in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 16, 2011. Yi Jun is an ordinary employee of an enterprise in Harbin. He has been interested in music since childhood. In the middle of 1960s, Yi began his collection in regard to music. So far, Yi has collected a total of 15,000 records, more than 5,000 music books and 69 gramophones. He stored those collections in a rental room and managed them according to classification. "All of them are rare files and the purest voice of Chinese and foreign artists." Yi said. The best wish of Yi is to find a bigger exhibition hall for those collections and to display them to citizens for free. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
Yi Jun checks a piece of record in his collection gallery at the Sun Island Scenic Resort in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 16, 2011. Yi Jun is an ordinary employee of an enterprise in Harbin. He has been interested in music since childhood. In the middle of 1960s, Yi began his collection in regard to music. So far, Yi has collected a total of 15,000 records, more than 5,000 music books and 69 gramophones. He stored those collections in a rental room and managed them according to classification. "All of them are rare files and the purest voice of Chinese and foreign artists." Yi said. The best wish of Yi is to find a bigger exhibition hall for those collections and to display them to citizens for free. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
