On March 28, in the long yellow sand of the Maowusu Desert in Ningxia, on the dry sand, he kept bowing to heaven and issuing prayers. His skin was darkened by the wind and sand and the sun from the northwest all year round, and his weather-beaten face was now sad and indignant, and he knelt on the ground and cried, and he couldn't help himself with emotion.
The old man's name was Sun Guoyou, a native of Sichuan, a sand control hero who gave up tens of millions of dollars to come to Ningxia to control the desert. He has been in this desolate desert for 21 years, facing the yellow sand with his back to the sky, planting trees and grass.
Sun Guoyou worked hard from snacks, did various jobs, and later earned money by engineering, and in 2003, he had earned tens of millions of dollars with his own hands.
When he was building a road in Ningxia, he saw a desert here and suddenly had the idea of coming to control the desert. Everyone thought that he must be crazy, and he had to suffer from this if he had a good life. But he persisted for 21 years, spent all his savings, and accumulated more than 10 million yuan.
His wife Wu Jinming is also in the boat with him through thick and thin, silently supporting him. She worked hard with Sun Guoyou. In order to make Sun Guoyou work better, she even called her parents and siblings to the farm to help until the two old people died on this land. They are like two lonely warriors, offering a touch of green in the vast desert.
Unfortunately, Sun Guoyou's 10,000-acre forest farm and a company called Shuangma Mining had a disagreement over land use, which turned out to be a subsidiary of Shenhua Group, a large state-owned enterprise specializing in coal mining. We don't know the specific reason, according to the old man, the forest farm first, the mine farm built later, and he and the mine also signed a water supply contract. Now what exactly caused the water source to be cut off, and the various reasons are only known to the people in the coal mines themselves.
It has been a long time since the coal project cut off the water source, he coordinated many times, waited many times, but the result was delayed again and again, it was supposed to be good to restore the water supply on March 27, but in the end nothing was waited. CCTV News reported in 2014 on the destruction of his forest farm's water source under the title "Ningxia Shenhuaning Coal Shuangma Coal Mine Discharge Thousand Mu of Sand Forest Destroyed".
Whether Sun Guoyou is a show or not, his 10,000-mu forest farm is real, and it is also true that he planted trees in the Maowusu Desert, that is, he is doing environmental protection.
What bad thoughts can a 62-year-old old man have to think about putting all the money he earns from doing engineering into such a bottomless pit as afforestation, tanning himself, his hands covered with calluses, and his face dusty? Whoever cheat money will choose to be in such a place where yellow sand is full of sky and birds do not, facing the loess with their backs to the sky every day, tanning themselves and full of vicissitudes.
The old man is crying for help, and he is asking for help for our environment, our green water and green mountains.
"Who will save us! Save this more than 10,000 acres of saplings that are about to die? ”
"God, they don't give me water!"
"My 10,000-acre saplings are dying of thirst!"
Between short-sighted economic interests and the great cause of desertification control for the benefit of future generations, some people choose the former, while others choose the latter.
The inaction of the local government also illustrates some problems.
The hard work of managing the barren desert did not make the old man collapse in tears, the precious water source was cut off by a coal mine for no reason, and the trees were in danger of dying, but it made the strong old man cry and tear his heart.
But now, this hero of desertification control can only turn to the media for help.
The local town government replied that it was being coordinated. I wonder when this coordination will be?
Wind prevention and sand control is a national policy, and this year's sandstorm is more violent than in previous years.
If these 10,000 mu of forest farm dies because of the lack of water, and the 21 years of hard work of the elderly are in vain, I am afraid that the sand and dust weather will be raging again.
It shows that this matter is not out of nowhere.
In the video, the old man kneels on the ground and tells the truth of the matter, he cleared the land here for afforestation, the mine came to mine here, cut off his water source, in order to compensate him, the two signed an agreement to use the sewage from the mine as watering, but for various reasons that everyone understands, the quality of the sewage has been unqualified and cannot be watered, and this matter has been dragged on until now.
The town's water affairs and sludge confuse the public, saying that the water quality is too high to be used.
Who is lying, and what is the truth?