New Gansu Daily Gansu Network reporter Lan Tian correspondent Wang Jianwen Xie Pengwei
On January 27, the third day of the Lunar New Year, at about 8:00 a.m., He Pengfeng, director of the Pingliang Forestry and Grassland Bureau, had just stepped into the office when he received a mobile phone text message. The sender said she was a fruit farmer in Kundong District and wanted to donate 10,000 kilograms of apples to the medical staff fighting the epidemic in Wuhan to show their respect.
After receiving the text message, He Pengfeng immediately contacted the relevant parties to coordinate the donation channels. At the same time, the Pingliang Apple Industry Alliance also issued the "Proposal on Donating Apples to the Frontline Medical Workers in the Fight against the Epidemic" in a timely manner. A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and 680,000 fruit farmers in Pingliang City responded positively. In the face of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Pingliang fruit farmers look in the eyes and are anxious in their hearts. When they saw the news that Pingliang and many medical workers across the country quickly gathered and rushed to the front line of the fight against the epidemic, they thought of donating homegrown Pingliang apples to the "most beautiful retrogrades" who are fighting in the front line of the fight against the epidemic to help win the battle against the epidemic.
Quickly blend high-quality apples to the front line
In the past few days, fruit farmers from Jingning, Zhuanglang, Jingchuan, Lingtai, Chongxin and other counties in the main apple-producing areas of Pingliang and Kundong District have carefully selected the best apples stored in the fruit bank, and under the coordination of the Pingliang Municipal Forestry and Grassland Bureau, in accordance with the distribution plan of "giving priority to Wuhan, ensuring the province, and taking into account the cities and counties", the apples were quickly sent to Wuhan, Beijing, Lanzhou and The first line of the fight against the epidemic in Pingliang City.
The long list of donated apples is filled with a string of touching love stories. Zhang Zuofu, a singer signed by Beijing Dream Century Media who returned to his hometown from Beijing for the New Year, and Su Yan and Cao Shengli, the bosses of Zhuang Lang Fugui Shun Fruit Industry, were very distressed after seeing the news that Wuhan medical staff were fighting day and night in the front line of the fight against the epidemic on the Chinese New Year's Eve night. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, they carefully selected 186 boxes and 3312 kilograms of pingliang apples, and drove to Wuhan at 11 o'clock that night.
"It's 1,100 kilometers from Zhuanglang to Wuhan, and it's snowy and foggy all the way, and it's particularly difficult to drive." Zhang Zuofu said, "The journey is tiring, but we are full of passion in our hearts, hoping to convey a kind of strength and faith to the medical staff." ”
The apple full of the friendship of the People of Pingliang arrived at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital
The first batch of apples in Pingliang City, full of the hearts of the people of the city, finally arrived in Wuhan after a day and a night trip, and after confirmation and registration by the relevant departments, they sent a cart of apples to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital. These three Zhuang Lang men said that they just wanted to cheer for the real heroes!
On the evening of February 2, after a donation proposal to support Wuhan was issued in the WeChat group and circle of friends in various villages in Renda Town, Jingning County, fruit farmers responded and actively signed up to donate their own apples. By February 5, a total of 217 growers had participated, donating a total of 1,967 high-quality apples. Gao Xihong, one of the initiators of the fundraising, said: "I thought this matter was a simple matter, but it is not easy to do it well. In the past three days, we have contacted many places in Hubei and encountered many difficulties, and under the contact of many parties, we finally obtained the pass for Wuhan and Huanggang City macheng on February 5.
Apples that gather the love of Pingliang fruit farmers are being loaded
On February 4th, Gansu Demei Geo-Modern Agricultural Group, chairman unit of Pingliang Apple Industry Alliance, organized Pingliang Jingning Apple Industry Development Co., Ltd. and other member enterprises to donate 3,000 boxes of Jingning apples to the front-line medical staff of Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the General Hospital of the Central Theater and the First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District of Wuhan City, with a total value of more than 400,000 yuan.
At 18:40 on February 5, two trucks with the banner "Renda Town, Jingning County, Gansu Province, Help E'e Apples" rushed to Wuhan and Huanggang Macheng, more than 1,000 kilometers away, overnight to send pingliang fruit farmers full of hearts to the units on the front line of the fight.
Love is unrestricted
Wang Enwei, a 29-year-old fruit farmer who is a farmer in the Jingning Mountains, was anxious to see the severity of the new crown pneumonia epidemic during the Chinese New Year. After discussing with his father, Wang Enwei decided to donate more than 100 boxes of apples still in the cold storage.
"If only we could mobilize the county's fruit farmers to collect public welfare donations and gather a cart of apples to send to Wuhan." With this in mind, on the afternoon of January 29, Wang Enwei sent his idea to the WeChat circle of friends, and soon, he got a response from many people. The first person to call to inquire was Wang Enwei's cousin Wang Qifei. After the brothers discussed it, Wang Qifei forwarded the news to more friends and relatives. After the brothers sent this message, in just a few hours, the call for apple donations for Wuhan spread rapidly among the major fruit farmers in Jingning, and everyone expressed their support. In just 5 days, Wang Enwei collected 18 tons of apples.
A truck full of love apples set off for Wuhan
The person in charge of a logistics information department in Jingning actively helped Wang Enwei contact the truck and the driver, and paid for the car Apple to buy a 200,000 yuan insurance policy. There are more than a thousand kilometers from Jingning to Wuhan, but the truck in contact has only one driver, and Xu Qi, a young man in Jingning who can drive, heard the news and volunteered to drive apples with the driver master. When the love apple was loaded into the car, many Jingning people spontaneously came to act as stevedores. A fruit farmer also donated two sets of protective clothing and two masks, and before leaving, a batch of Jingning flatbread and early crispy pears were donated by caring people.
At about 11 o'clock on February 4, after 38 hours of day and night, the apple full of the "love" of the Jingning people was successfully delivered.
"Thank you all! The love fruit was successfully delivered, which is our Jingning fruit farmer's love for the motherland! Come on Wuhan! Come on China! In the Apple donation public welfare group, Wang Enwei wrote such a sentence.
Pingliang Forestry and Grassland Bureau and Pingliang Apple Industry Alliance donated apples to the Second People's Hospital of Pingliang City
Pingliang Jingningren Big Apple Store donated apples to the Pingliang Cd-operative Center for Disease Control and Prevention
On the Love Transport Line, the Pingliang Branch of the Postal Group Company is ready to provide transport vehicles to Wuhan, and a logistics company in Jingning is also providing vehicle assistance.
After 200 tons of Pingliang apples were continuously delivered to the hands of frontline builders and white-clad angels in the fight against the epidemic, letters of thanks were also sent to Pingliang fruit farmers. The First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District of Wuhan City said in the thank-you letter: Your love and acts of kindness have demonstrated the priceless friendship of helping each other in the same boat and sharing hardships and hardships, and your selfless dedication has injected a strong spiritual motivation into all medical staff and inspired us to overcome the confidence and courage of the epidemic.