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Nanchang, 19 Jan (Xinhua) -- Ouyang Yuanchao's black face is the result of years of patrolling Poyang Lake to protect the wind and the sun; for the sake of porpoises and migratory birds, he is not afraid of offending people and dares to "blackface" for violating the law.
Ouyang Yuanchao and his colleagues patrolled Poyang Lake to protect law enforcement. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Gang
Tangyin Island is located on the "navel eye" of Poyang Lake. In the season of abundant water, surrounded by water on all sides, it takes half an hour to take a boat from the nearest township; in the dry season, the beach is muddy and there is no road, and you must first drive to the ferry port on the island, take the ferry, and then take a tricycle or walk through a large area of grass island beach before reaching the island.
Tangyin Village on the island is a traditional fishing village, with more than 200 villagers who have been fishing for generations. At its peak, there were five or six hundred fishing boats in the village, and every household ate the lake by the lake, and a family earned 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year from fishing, but overfishing also destroyed the ecological environment of Poyang Lake.
Ouyang Yuanchao and his colleagues walked to the law enforcement point on Tangyin Island. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Gang
In order to catch more fish, illegal fishing, fishermen disputes occur from time to time, in 2017, the Duchang County Party Committee and the county government of Jiangxi Province decided to set up a joint law enforcement point on the island with the participation of multiple departments such as water public security, fishery administration, and environmental protection to crack down on illegal fishing, sand mining, hunting migratory birds and other illegal acts. ”
57-year-old Ouyang Yuanchao is tall and strong, with a dark face, has been a police officer for more than 30 years, has never left the grassroots level, and other staff at the law enforcement point are rotated regularly, but he took the initiative to ask to stay behind, and it was 5 years.
Ouyang Yuanchao and his colleagues patrolled migratory birds on the grass island of Poyang Lake. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Gang
For the illegal acts of destroying the ecology of Poyang Lake, Ouyang Yuanchao was black and ruthless. Before poyang lake was completely banned from fishing and retired, as the person in charge of the joint law enforcement point, Ouyang Yuanchao often took his colleagues to patrol the lake area to enforce the law. Some unscrupulous fishermen use bottom trawls, which are banned by the state, which are extremely dense, and the nets of large fish and small fish are exhausted, which is extremely damaging to the species diversity of Poyang Lake. Once discovered, Ouyang Yuanchao took his colleagues to cut the net and take it away, and the fishermen who had been handed over the nets were lightly insulted, saying that he had "smashed the fishermen's rice bowls", and the heavy ones surrounded the law enforcement boats in an attempt to retrieve the nets that had been confiscated, which was extremely dangerous. After the implementation of the policy of banning fishing and retiring fishing, fishermen have gradually understood the importance of protecting the ecological environment, and now, the fishermen on the island have switched to production and landed, and the village has also set up a fish protection team to patrol the lake every day to protect the fish.
Ouyang Yuanchao visited the old people left behind on the island. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Gang
With the villagers, Ouyang Yuanchao is much more amiable. After the ban on arrest and retirement, most of the villagers went out to work, and there were only thirty or forty left-behind elderly people left in the village, and when the old people had difficulties, they went to Ouyang to aid the DPRK and helped the elderly pay for mobile phone bills, fill gas, and chop firewood... These little things narrowed the distance between Ouyang Yuanchao and the villagers. "Now every time I go back to the county seat, the old man in the village takes the vegetables he grows and stuffs them into my hands." Ouyang Yuanchao said that he and the villagers are looking forward to the early construction of the road into the island, so that the isolated island is not alone.
"Look, Porpoise!" Under the setting sun, a group of porpoises jumped out of the lake from time to time, and Ouyang Yuanchao, who was standing on the patrol boat, could not hide his excitement, and for the sake of the porpoises and migratory birds in Poyang Lake, he decided to continue to hold on until he retired.
Video: Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Gang