In 2022, the opening king exploded.
The Spring Festival is approaching, The Omicron is coming menacingly, and the domestic epidemic situation has once again ushered in a small outbreak.
Before everyone could slow down, a volcanic eruption thousands of miles away shook the already fragile earth again.
Five days ago, the volcanic eruption in Tonga triggered a serious local tsunami, and many countries issued tsunami warnings and launched emergency plans.
After the news came, the Chinese Embassy in Tonga contacted the local Chinese as soon as possible to confirm the safety of all Chinese.
At present, the most difficult thing is that the communication method has not been restored, the water pollution caused by the volcanic eruption has led to a serious shortage of water in the local area, the supply of fresh vegetables has been cut off, the volcanic ash has spread, and the rescue work after the disaster cannot be delayed.
In the face of natural disasters, human beings will always be so fragile, but there will always be some countries that will not hesitate to retrograde towards the source of disasters.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, at a regular news conference on the 18th, said to all Chinese compatriots in Tang:
"Don't be afraid, the motherland will always be behind you in times of crisis."
In the face of this sudden disaster, China is taking action!
01 "I've made more than 300 phone calls and still can't get in touch..."
At present, there are 6 Chinese-funded enterprises in Tonga, and there are about 1,000 overseas Chinese. After the news returned to China due to the destruction of internet and telephone lines caused by the tsunami, many people rushed around because they could not contact relatives and friends.
After learning the news, Lin Yixiong, who went overseas to work, made more than 300 phone calls to confirm the safety of his friends in Tonga. Because of the damage to communication, the phone was briefly connected for 5 seconds, and before he could speak, he lost contact with his friend again.
Meanwhile, Chen Dong, a 19-year-old Fujian boy, has not closed his eyes for more than 30 hours.
Chen Dong's brother partnered with someone to open a restaurant in Tonga, and on the day of the incident, Chen Dong's brother also sent a message to his family, saying that the Tonga volcano had erupted and they were preparing to take refuge.
After that, the family never contacted their brother again.
Chen Dong's brother had sent Chen Dong a picture of his location before he disappeared. Source of the picture is the Beijing News
Chen Dong's brother's restaurant is right on the beach, close to the location of the tsunami, which makes Chen Dong very anxious.
He couldn't help but brush the social platform, wanting to know more about the local situation, and at the same time constantly dialing his brother's phone, hoping to confirm his brother's safety.
Ms. Li in Guangzhou is also trying to contact her husband, Zhu Jianxiong.
Zhu Jianxiong
In 2019, her husband Zhu Jianxiong went to the Capital of Tonga, Nuku'alofa, to deal with business, and originally planned to return to China at the end of the year, who admitted to encountering the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in China, Zhu Jianxiong had to stay in the local quarantine.
This stay is more than 2 years.
Their last WeChat chat was at 13:00 on January 15, when Zhu Jianxiong sent a voice to his wife, "Volcanic eruption, there may be a tsunami", and then transferred all the change in WeChat to his wife, and has not replied since.
Source of the picture is the Beijing News
Ms. Li and her husband met in 2007, and since their original families were not very complete, they were each other's only dependence.
In order to accompany her husband, Ms. Li once followed him to Tonga to do business, and after having children, Ms. Li chose to return to China to take care of children with autism, while her husband Zhu Jianxiong stayed in Tonga to continue to work.
Because of the outbreak of the epidemic, the local economy is facing a heavy blow, and Zhu Jianxiong can only rely on repairing computers for people.
After learning of the disaster, Ms. Li kept contacting her husband through various means, and even launched a request for help on the Internet, hoping to confirm her husband's safety.
On January 17, 2022, Ms. Li received a phone call from a staff member of the Chinese Embassy in Tonga, who accurately said her name and informed Zhu Jianxiong that she was safe.
After Ms. Li hung up the phone, she immediately told the other family members the news: "I still can't believe it, is it really the embassy that called me?" I'm still asking my relatives to check this call! ”
She laughed and laughed and cried.
Scenes like this, the day is staged in many places.
Using the satellite's brief resumption of communications, the embassy sent out an update: as of January 17, no Chinese citizens had died on the main island of Tonga, and a few Chinese citizens had been slightly injured.
It is understood that there are about 1,000 overseas Chinese in Tonga, including 6 Chinese-funded enterprises.
After the incident, the Chinese government attached great importance to the safety of Tongan compatriots and institutions, and the embassy immediately provided consular protection and assistance, while helping Chinese enterprises to protect nearby water sources and install filtration devices as soon as possible after the volcanic eruption.
In the context of severe damage in Tonga, shortage of materials and damage to the communication system, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said:
In order to help the Government and people of Tonga tide over the difficulties, the Chinese side will assist a batch of emergency supplies such as drinking water, food, personal protective equipment and disaster relief equipment at the request of the Tongan side.
Today (January 20), the first international aid supplies have arrived in Tonga, and they are from China!
Some people say that if you are a Chinese abroad, as long as you find an embassy in your local area, you don't have to be afraid of anything.
This phrase still works even if it is placed in a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean.
02 Chinese teachers who appeared in Tonga
On the third day of the volcanic eruption in Tonga, the topic of #Chinese teachers teaching vegetables in Tonga was hotly searched.
After the official announcement, we learned that there were originally 3 foreign aid teachers from Liaocheng University in Shandong Province, who were now trapped in Tonga.
And the reason why they appear here is precisely to bring new technologies cultivated by agriculture to the local area.
Weibo @ Communist Youth League Central Committee
In 2018, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Education of Tonga signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Educational Exchange and Cooperation.
Since January 2019, Liaocheng University has been entrusted by the Ministry of Education to send two support groups of 7 teachers to Tonga to carry out foreign aid work such as Chinese language teaching, agricultural theory and practical teaching.
Agriculture is Tonga's mainstay industry, and they rely on the cultivation of melons and fruits for export to obtain foreign exchange.
However, due to the backwardness of local cultivation technology and the frequent occurrence of pests caused by high temperatures all year round, the agricultural level has been very backward, and the products are not popular in the international market.
Weibo @ Heji Voix
After this group of Chinese teachers came to Tonga, they immediately began to teach.
They followed the locals through every inch of Tonga, inspecting suitable planting areas little by little, and teaching the locals weeding and cultivation, water and fertilizer integration techniques. At the same time, they were taught scientific irrigation methods, which enriched the diversity of local planting industries.
In more than 2 years, the local agricultural level in Tonga has been greatly improved, and many high-quality melons and fruits have been cultivated.
You know, before this, the Tongans had not even eaten the vegetables of green vegetables, and now the vegetables on the tables of the Tongans are all grown by the teachers of our Chinese schools with the help of the locals.
Not only that, with the sponsorship of the Ambassador Fund, China has also helped Tongans build solar wells and water storage towers to make local life more convenient.
We have never spoken out loud to the world about these things.
China is like a doer who buries his head in hard work, ignoring the eyes and ridicule of others, and single-mindedly doing practical things for the people.
Diligent, pragmatic, hardworking, where there is a need, we will go.
But do good deeds, don't ask about the future.
We are in the same boat and watching out for each other.
03 "Evacuation"
This time the Tonga volcano erupted, the Chinese people were nervous, in fact, they did not worry too much.
Because such a sudden event is not the first time we have encountered it.
On February 15, 2011, anti-government protests broke out in Libya and local riots escalated. Libya's rich oil resources have made the Western countries led by the United States have the idea of taking advantage of the void, and war is about to break out.
After the news reached China, China immediately issued an early warning and immediately issued an order to evacuate overseas Chinese.
Zhang Keyuan, then China's ambassador to Malta, also immediately contacted the local government to request that the Chinese side cooperate with the chinese action, cancel all complicated procedures, and allow the Chinese to evacuate safely.
So from February 23, the Chinese Air Force, Navy, and Civil Aviation rushed to Libya in many directions, becoming the first country in the world to arrive in Libya to evacuate overseas Chinese.
It took only 275 hours to safely evacuate all the more than 30,000 Chinese citizens in Libya.
At that time, the American reporter who witnessed the whole process of evacuation also sighed:
"It's not like an evacuation, it's more like a military parade."
With the development of China's science and technology and the improvement of international discourse power, China has gradually become familiar with such evacuations.
Bright five-star red flags flutter above the heads of every citizen in need.
On September 17, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Dominica, paralyzing the local water, electricity, food and communication systems, forcing the closure of airports and ports, and trapping about 400 overseas Chinese in China.
After learning of the local disaster situation, the country immediately sent the Embassy in Dominica to take shelter measures. At the same time, the chartered plane flew 34,000 kilometers overnight, crossing a total of 19 countries and evacuating all overseas Chinese urgently.
In November 2020, a civil war broke out in Ethiopia, the theater airport was closed, the road was blocked, and China sent more than 60 vehicles to ensure the safety of all citizens at the first time.
And in early 2020, the new crown epidemic ushered in a major outbreak overseas, although China itself has just recovered, but heard that tens of thousands of international students were trapped in the local airport, immediately without saying a word chartered flight to pick up students home.
Once a blogger said he met a car robber abroad. When the six gods were without a master, he took out the five-star red flag in his bag, and the gangsters looked at each other and decided to let him get out of the car.
This may be the meaning of the motherland's strength.
Step by step, China has condensed the strength of countless people, so that we have the confidence today, no matter where we are, we can rest assured.
In the past year, we have cried, laughed, loved, and hated.
We have witnessed history and experienced disasters.
The volcano has gone out, the tsunami has stopped, the epidemic is still raging, and this year may have to wait for a cold winter.
But fortunately, we are in China, and every step forward in the future is a firm upward road.
Welcome to light up "watching" and forward it to the circle of friends, wishing all Chinese citizens in Tonga all the best.
May the new year be safe and secure, and live every day well. Wen /W Sister