——Prose: Aiding Xinjiang cannot help feelings

Zhang Zhaozhi

The years are like a song. Unknowingly, the three years of working and living in Xinjiang have passed by in a blink of an eye. I came to Altay for half a year and fell in love with it. I once published an essay called "Days of Aiding Altay" to express my sincere feelings for "gold mountains and silver waters". Two and a half years later, this sentiment of aiding Xinjiang has penetrated into the blood, bone marrow, and soul!

The three years of aiding Xinjiang are three years of enriching life experience and a reflection of the value of life. Three years. This experience has made me more mature and more indifferent to fame and fortune. I remember that my Kazakh neighbor who lived in the same unit as me often asked me questions. During the Rouzi Festival, I went to the old man’s house to pay New Year greetings, drank fragrant milk tea, ate sweet and sour milk dumplings, and felt the Kazakh folk customs. What moved me was that the old man himself was having difficulties at home. When I was about to return to Beijing on the eve of the Spring Festival in 2011, the old man specially sent me two live fish and told me to say hello to my wife and children. I couldn't restrain my emotions and burst into tears! This is the deep friendship the local ethnic minority people have for the cadres who are aiding Xinjiang!

Being in Altay, a place known as "Golden Mountains and Silver Waters", my soul was touched It has been purified like never before, and emotions and thoughts have also been sublimated. I support Xinjiang and I am happy. This kind of experience is difficult to experience without immersing yourself wholeheartedly.

Every detail of the work and life of Xinjiang aid cadres in the Altay region embodies the concerns of their families. More than half of the achievements in aiding Xinjiang should be attributed to the families of the cadres aiding Xinjiang. They (she) bear the huge pressure of work and life, bear the suffering of being unable to reunite with their families, and use their weak arms to shoulder the burden of the family, support the elderly, and educate their children. Even if you sacrifice yourself personally, you must become a strong backing for the cadres who assist Xinjiang. Cadres who aid Xinjiang owe their families a lot. Sons and daughters in adolescence have lost the love they should have received from their fathers (mothers), and have placed the burden of taking care of their families on the weak shoulders of another person. No matter how the Xinjiang aid cadres make up for it, they can’t make up for it!

Every time it is late at night and on holidays, we will miss home. But as soon as they return to work, the Xinjiang aid cadres will devote themselves to the hot work of aiding Xinjiang, working together with local cadres and the people to strive for the region's leap-forward development and long-term peace and stability.

The families of the cadres who are aiding Xinjiang are always thinking about their loved ones. I remember that at a gathering of cadres who were aiding Xinjiang in Beijing on the 15th day of the first lunar month in 2010, my son said a few simple words, which actually made some of the people present feel sad. Xinjiang cadres had sore noses and tears, and some cadres and their families who were aiding Xinjiang were even in tears! He said: "When cadres aiding Xinjiang can go home, they should try their best to go home, take a look and help some of their families; if they want to be real If you can't go home, you should call your family more often, contact your relatives as much as possible, and let your relatives know all aspects of your situation as much as possible; and when you get home, you should take on more housework at home and let your family members have more rest!"

Cadres aiding Xinjiang not only experience the pain of missing their loved ones, but also experience the test of blood and fire. In 2009, during the worst snowstorm in the Altay region in 60 years, I accidentally slipped and fell, causing a bone fracture in my right ankle and a partially torn ligament. It took a hundred days to break my muscles and bones, let alone my feet! During a period of time, my wife was anemic and fainted from time to time, and my son fell and injured his right foot. It was true that misfortunes never come singly. Even under such circumstances, when I think about the harm caused by the severe snowstorm in the Altay region to people of all ethnic groups, I often have trouble sleeping and eating, thinking about doing something that I can do for the region. I reported the situation to the dispatched unit in a timely manner and tried every means to donate money to the region's fight against the snow disaster. Using crutches, I went to the dispatched unit to report on Xinjiang aid work, apply for projects, and strive for as much support as possible in terms of projects, funds, policies, etc.

My actions moved the leaders, and the Xinjiang aid work received strong support from the dispatched units. I remember that when I took the relevant leaders of the Altay region to the dispatched unit to contact the project, a cadre from the Altay region said: "The Xinjiang aid cadres have done all the previous work and the road has been paved. The treatment we enjoy is It’s different.” I still remember that when I was inspecting a project in Beijing, I also went there with crutches. What they said the most was that “the cadres who are assisting Xinjiang are different, especially the cadres who are assisting Xinjiang in Altay.

This persistence, this spirit of hard work and selfless dedication is worth learning!” But what I say most is that the cadres and people in the Altay region have been adhering to the border for a long time and have silently contributed to the construction and development of the border without any regrets or regrets. In comparison, the things I have done are insignificant.

I am about to leave the "golden mountains and silver waters" where I have worked and lived for three years. I will never forget the mountains, rivers and grass here for the rest of my life. Yimu, as well as the simple and kind-hearted people here, who are mainly Kazakhs, are hard to say goodbye, and it is hard to let go of the extremely deep friendship, colleagueship, and aid friendship that have been formed in the past three years. In front of you. Say goodbye again! But the beautiful "Golden Mountains and Silver Waters", the picturesque Kanas, the world-famous geological holy pit No. 3 of Cocotuohai, and the mysterious stone man on the grassland. And rock paintings, the origin of ancient skiing...can it disappear from memory!

Three years of aid to Xinjiang are coming to an end!

How can we forget the experience of three years of aid to Xinjiang?

The lifelong journey of aiding Xinjiang has just begun!