"Relocation is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, it is to respond to the call of the country, and it is for the future development of the country.
In the face of the persuasion of the staff, she was determined not to move out.
She is Zhang Bingai, the "nail household" of the Three Gorges Project.
In fact, it is understandable for Zhang Bingai's decision not to move, and the village cadres who came to mobilize it, after all, as the pillar of the family, Zhang Bingai does have his own considerations.
Zhang Bingai's family makes a living by growing navel oranges. If she moves, she will lose her financial resources, and it is understandable that she will not be able to support her children and a disabled husband.
Yes, Zhang Bingai's husband has a leg and foot injury, so the family's work is supported by Zhang Bingai alone.
Speaking of which, Zhang Bingai is also a poor person. Originally handsome, she may have a better choice in marriage. But because the family's economy was not good, her parents were bent on finding her a family with better conditions, so they fell in love with Zhang Bingai's husband's family.
At that time, the economy of her husband's family was okay, and her parents thought that Zhang Bingai would be able to live a slightly better life after marrying. But what the Zhang family's parents didn't expect was that Zhang Bingai's mother-in-law had several children, and her disabled husband was the most unfavored one in her mother-in-law's family.
So after Zhang Bingai got married, she found that it was obviously impossible to get financial help from her in-laws, and she still had to rely on herself.
Zhang Bingai is a diligent person, although the days are not as she expected, but she did not complain, but worked hard to support the family. Although her husband is unable to move, she is also considerate and caring for Zhang Bingai, and soon Zhang Bingai has a son and a daughter, and the life of a family of four is hard but it goes on.
But just when Zhang Bingai thought that his life was so dull and hard, the village was about to move!
This relocation is not a small-scale relocation, but an unprecedented large-scale project!
Because, the Three Gorges Project is about to begin!
On April 3, 1992, at the Fifth Session of the Seventh National People's Congress, a resolution on the construction of the Three Gorges Project was voted and adopted.
According to the plan, once the Three Gorges Project begins, it will affect 20 districts and counties, more than 270 townships and towns, more than 1,500 enterprises, and more than 34 million square meters of houses in Hubei Province and Chongqing Municipality.
All the people in the areas involved in this ambitious project blueprint will be resettled.
Therefore, this is not a simple demolition, but a great movement of New China.
Zigui County, where Zhang Bingai is located, is the starting point of the first batch of large-scale relocations, and a feat in human water conservancy projects will start here.
From the moment the resolution was passed and publicized throughout the country, the millions of Three Gorges residents affected by the project were both excited and worried.
From the perspective of objective conditions, although it is difficult to leave their homeland, leaving the land on which their ancestors have relied for their survival, and leaving their hometown to go to a strange place, for these villagers who rely on the mountains and water to eat the mountains and water, no one knows what awaits them. But in addition to worrying, the villagers are also excited. Because due to the limitations of geographical conditions, the transportation in many places is not developed, which leads to certain limitations in local economic development, which makes many people who want to seek development unable to find a better way. The construction of the Three Gorges Project has given everyone a chance to start anew.
Isn't that a good thing!
Besides, the construction of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station is of great significance to the country and the people, so more people still actively respond to the call of the state and make preparations in accordance with the state's arrangements.
In 1996, the relocation work officially began. And Guilin Village, where Zhang Bingai is located, is impressively listed.
According to the plan, all the more than 100 households in Guilin Village will move out.
On April 24, when a total of 434 villagers from 121 households in the village came to the ancestral hall of the clan to say goodbye, and nostalgically took away the water and soil of their hometown, and rushed to their new home with apprehension, Zhang Bingai's family did not leave.
She really didn't know how to face the unknown future, and she was afraid that her family would not survive.
In the face of Zhang Bingai's stubbornness, the village cadres were also helpless, after all, they also knew the actual situation in her family. So the village cadres could only help as much as possible to find a way.
After all, home must be moved. Because Zhang Bingai's house is below the water level, once the dam starts to be built to a certain extent, her home will be instantly submerged by the river water pouring down.
But for Zhang Bingai, it can be delayed for a day.
The people in the village have been emptied, and Zhang Bingai has been guarding the untended land after the owners have left day after day, living a difficult life.
The project began, the water level was rising every day, Zhang Bingai's life became more and more difficult, and it was also very inconvenient for the children to go to school, after all, they now have to take a long detour to get to school. It is inevitable that they will be resentful, and the children feel that their mothers have not responded to the call of the country for such a big project, and they are even more blamed.
This made Zhang Bingai feel dazed and at a loss. She didn't know if she was doing the right thing, she just worked hard in silence.
However, with the progress of the project, the relocation is imminent, and it really can't be delayed any longer. So the village cadres found Zhang Bingai again and persuaded her to move.
This time, Zhang Bingai finally relented. It's just that her relief is still very limited. She only promised to move her family away from the water level of the project, not to leave Guilin Village entirely.
The village cadres who had no choice but to help Zhang Bingai's family temporarily build a shed at the safe water level, and not long after the shed was erected, the flood flooded Zhang Bingai's old house.
There was no electricity in the makeshift shed, and the conditions were very rudimentary. The only fortunate thing is that the children have grown up, the son went to Xinjiang to become a soldier after failing the college entrance examination, and the daughter also found a lover with good character to get married when she reached the age, and she didn't need to live hard in such a house.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Bingai lived in this shed for a whole year. During this year, the quality of life of the couple can be imagined.
Fortunately, the situation of Zhang Bingai's family has been concerned by local government departments and village cadres. A year later, the village officials approached Zhang again and offered to help them arrange a resettlement house on the side of the road, and gave her family a proper financial compensation.
This time, Zhang Bingai did not refuse, she spent thousands of yuan to buy a roadside shack, ending her long career as a "nail household".
Every time he saw the magnificent Three Gorges Project, and heard that those old neighbors were living completely different lives in other cities, Zhang Bingai's heart was full of emotion.
She didn't know if she had really done something wrong at the beginning, she could only do her best to support this family day after day, year after year, and continue to move forward!
In fact, from 1993 to 2005, in order to successfully complete the construction of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, about 100,000 Three Gorges residents relocated every year, and a total of more than 1.1 million people migrated in 12 years. These Three Gorges migrants have started a new life in a new city and changed the future of themselves and their children.
Of course, there are also a very small number of people like Zhang Bingai, who did not leave with the army for various reasons, and these people became "nail households" and stayed in the original land.
Of course, these so-called "nail households" are not the same as some of the current "nail households", and they insist on staying, not to negotiate terms with the government, to obtain better compensation for demolition and relocation, and to get more resettlement conditions than others, but for various other reasons.
They missed the opportunity to change their fate through the great change of the times, which has to be said to be a pity!