source: the news people's daily national forestry bureau reporter silver swallow
led by Wang Yinji, we came to the Wuwei City, Gansu, cool. The hinterland of the Tengger Desert on the north of the village of red water in the state of the state of the state of the Great Wall is a vibrant tree of Elaeagnus jujuba, Haloxylon ammodendron and flower sticks, like a green ocean.
Wang Yinji (right) and Wang Tianchang, the father of nearly eight days, planted trees in the hinterland of the Tengger Desert (data photo)
more than ten years ago, there was a storm of dust storms here. The desert is constantly approaching the village, and the villagers are being attacked by wind and sand all the year round.
a lot of people in the village choose to go out to work. Wang Yinji, who grew up here, did not leave. He decided to fight with the wind and sand. "Never let the desert bury the house!" Since 1999, he and his family have insisted on planting trees in Tengger Desert, which is 3 kilometers away from home.
Wang Yinji and his family proposed the idea of sand control and got the support of the whole family. Just after the Spring Festival in 1999, the Wang Yinji family took the tent and pot and pans and pans and other living appliances, pulled the wheat straw and corn stalk for the sand pressure, came to the desert hinterland of the 3 kilometers north of the village, and was stationed in a place called "temple pier", and began to press sand and afforestation.
to transport trees, straw, and water, Wang Yinji bought two big camels, and on the rough road of more than 3 kilometers between the home and the desert day after day. It took 3 hours to go back and forth. Camel laden water is far from enough for seedlings. Wang Yinji dug a cellar in the desert and wrapped it on plastic celled walls to store rainwater. In winter, water that camels carried into the desert is stored in a cellar and irrigated with seedlings.
"every day quilts and pillows are covered with thick sand and dust. They eat every day and there is a layer of sand on the bottom of the bowl." Wang Yinji said that all the year round he slept and overworked, and his father Wang Tianchang suffered from severe rheumatism.
Wang Yinji and his father Wang Tianchang were stationed in the depths of the desert. The burden of the household was almost entirely on the shoulders of Wang Yinji's mother and wife. The mother and daughter-in-law cook meals at home, always calculating the time, so that they can eat delicious meals immediately after they go home.
Wang Yinji went to a tree and embraced the trunk with deep emotion. This is a tree planted by his son in his life. In the spring of 2005, the youngest son of grade six in primary school suffered from brain stem glioma. "Father, I must bury me on the sand control point. I will accompany you to plant all the desert trees." Before this year's Dragon Boat Festival, Wang Yinji's youngest son left the world forever.
"daughter-in-law complains that I only care about planting trees. I am not concerned about taking care of my son. I have delayed the child's illness." This became the eternal pain in Wang Yinji's heart. But after that, the family gave Wang Yinji comfort and support. The family turned their thoughts and pains into the power of sand pressing afforestation. In the years of
19, the Wang Yinji family had planted nearly 8000 mu of sand forestation, and planted about 1000000 plants of Haloxylon ammodendron, about 1200000 flower sticks, about 300000 woolen, more than 50 thousand Caragana, 200 thousand elm trees and 100 thousand jujube trees.
the deeds of Wang Yinji's family moved many people around. With the village committee, Zhao Deyuan of the same village applied for the village committee, contracted 5000 mu of sand land, led 15 families to the desert to press the sand and planted trees; the immigrants from the Great Bay beach found Wang Yinji, asked him to guide the sand pressure, and Wang Yinji readily agreed, and provided the seedlings, labor tools and technology gratuitous.
"I just want to plant more trees to make some efforts to change the ecological environment of my hometown." Wang Yinji said firmly.