Grass is greener at home

Mongolian banker expresses feelings for grasslands through poems

Li Congying is a down-to-earth banker and a romantic poet - a rare and seemingly ambivalent combination of two identities.

"I am - always will be - a herder," says 57-year-old Li, who is the head of People's Bank of China's bureau in Wuhai, a city in the west of Inner Mongolia autonomous region. "My grassland herds me, and I herd the poems."