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The vast expanse of yellow sand swept like a monstrous wave, and there is no end in sight to when it will stop spreading. In this land deep in the Mu Us Desert in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, it seems that it has been ruthlessly swallowed by the vast desert forever, losing its vitality, and everything in the world seems to be silent and powerless.
However, there is one person who drives the car in this endless yellow sand, but always holds a state of hope for the future. Her name is Niu Yuqin, an ordinary peasant girl born in Dingbian, Shaanxi, and her life has been deeply connected to this barren and desolate land.
At the age of 17, Niu Yuqin entered the marriage hall and married into Jinjisha Village, Jingbian County, where she witnessed her husband Zhang Jiawang's enthusiasm and desire for greening his homeland. Despite the difficult living conditions and the need to walk several kilometers to the oasis every day to fetch water, she never gave up on the dream in her heart - to use her hard-working hands to inject green hope into this land.
In the face of the harsh environment of the sandstorm, Niu Yuqin's eyes were unwavering. A flame burned in her heart that changed the fate of her homeland. In a land that was seen as no longer alive, she was determined to create an oasis for future generations to revitalize and revitalize it.
Niu Yuqin is convinced that as long as she persists in her efforts, the yellow sand will eventually be conquered. She made up her mind to use her own hands to sow hope on this land, waiting for the seedlings of hope to break through the soil and grow vigorously until they blossomed and bore fruit.
In 1966, 17-year-old Niu Yuqin married Zhang Jiawang from Jinjisha Village, Jingbian County, with a vision of a better life. Watching her husband work hard in the yellow sand every day, her heart gradually sprouted a firm determination to green her home.
More than ten years later, in 1986, when the state began to promote the policy of "joint household desertification control", Niu Yuqin and his wife did not hesitate to contract the first batch of 110,000 acres of wasteland. Although many villagers around them questioned this, their belief in greening their homes has never wavered.
At first, they were like two lonely warriors, facing countless hardships and setbacks. In order to master the tree planting technique, Niu Yuqin resolutely decided to go to the garden to learn, and humbly asked the gardener for all kinds of knowledge about tree growth.
In order to solve the financial problem, Zhang Jiawang had to sell his livestock at home.
Their initial efforts were met with many difficulties, and thousands of seedlings that had been carefully cultivated were wiped out in a sudden storm of wind and dust! Faced with the tragic reality, the two were inevitably depressed, but they quickly picked up the fallen saplings and strengthened the protective measures.
Back in 1988, Zhang Jiawang passed away due to illness, and Niu Yuqin, as his wife, resolutely shouldered the heavy responsibility of sand control. Despite the sadness in her heart, she did not hesitate to show her strong and unyielding personality with practical actions.
As the responsibilities stacked, the pressure on her became heavier and heavier, like a huge mountain pressing on her heart. However, she has never forgotten the grand desire to create a green home for future generations, and has a firm belief that she will never give up and strive to find a new breakthrough.
In the face of the persuasion of relatives and friends and the doubts of all walks of life, Niu Yuqin has always adhered to her original intention and is unwavering. She is convinced that with perseverance, she will find her way to success.
Under Niu Yuqin's hard work for more than 30 years, the shoots broke through the soil in the barren land and grew into towering trees.
In the blink of an eye, in 2022, the 73-year-old sand control heroine Niu Yuqin looked back on the past, and her eyes flashed with great pride. With the joint efforts of her and future generations, they have planted more than 28 million trees and managed an astonishing 110,000 acres, rejuvenating 80% of the once desolate and barren Mu Us Desert.
This remarkable and brilliant achievement is the best testimony of the realization of Niu Yuqin and her husband Zhang Jiawang's long-cherished wish for many years. In order to fulfill her husband's legacy, Niu Yuqin founded Luyuan Desertification Control Co., Ltd. in 1998 to promote the industrialization of her personal desertification control business, and the scale gradually expanded.
Now, Niu Yuqin has enjoyed her old age, and her son Zhang Liqiang has been able to take charge of himself and properly handle the company's affairs. And several of her granddaughters and grandchildren have also devoted themselves to this great cause after graduating from Forestry University, inheriting the green dream of desertification control.
For Niu Yuqin, this is not only her personal career, but also the relay and persistence of generation after generation, and the source of hope for her and the whole family to work together for the rebirth of their homeland.
However, behind all these brilliant achievements is the arduous exploration and unremitting pursuit of the Niu Yuqin family for more than 30 years.
In 1997, when the windbreak and sand fixation work in Jinjisha Village began to show results, Niu Yuqin learned that in Henan Township, Wushenqi, Inner Mongolia, there were also large areas of barren land that needed to be remediated.
As an outstanding hero who has always regarded the greening of the motherland as her own responsibility, she bravely decided to take on a heavy debt of hundreds of thousands of yuan and resolutely embarked on a journey to Inner Mongolia to continue and deepen her career.
Niu Yuqin knows that in order to truly implement her husband's long-cherished wish, it is far from enough to control the desert in her hometown. She firmly vowed to contribute her own modest strength to China's green cause.
When she stepped into this strange and vast desert of Inner Mongolia, Niu Yuqin's heart was full of confusion and struggle. Heavy debts weighed on her shoulders like a mountain, forcing her to speed up the project, day and night.
However, she never flinched in the slightest, just silently gritted her teeth and took on the heavy responsibility of greening with her tenacious shoulders.
In 2004, in order to give the villagers of Jinjisha Village a better life, Niu Yuqin did not hesitate to invest heavily in the construction of an 11-kilometer asphalt road. However, due to a lack of funds, she had to travel from place to place to raise money.
Just when the outside world speculated that she might give up halfway, she successfully raised 5 million yuan with perseverance and perseverance, so that every household in the village had access to electricity facilities.
On every way forward, Niu Yuqin has carefully planned and calculated; In every decision, she has a persistent pursuit of a green home and never gives up. It is this kind of perseverance and spiritual quality that ultimately shapes a true hero of wind and sand fixation.
Time is like an arrow, time is like a shuttle, and today's Niu Yuqin is over the age of old. After years of hard work, her windbreak and sand fixation career is finally on the right track and has entered a new stage of development.
During this period, Niu Yuqin gradually unloaded the burden on her shoulders and was able to take a break, and the green cause will also usher in new vitality.
In 2013, Niu Yuqin's only son, Zhang Liqiang, returned to his hometown after graduating from Forestry University with the legacy of his father, and devoted himself to his mother's green cause.
Having witnessed his mother's arduous struggle since childhood, Zhang Liqiang has an innate love for windbreak and sand fixation.
Under the careful guidance and training of Master Niu Yuqin, Zhang Liqiang rose rapidly like a vigorous horse and became a dazzling technical elite! He devoted all his energy to the complex technique of grafting, and finally ushered in brilliant results in 2013 - the successful grafting of a variety of precious tree species such as Korean pine and whitebark pine on the pine sylvestris var.
This unprecedented innovative technology has undoubtedly greatly improved the quality and efficiency of desertification control work. With Zhang Liqiang's great help, Niu Yuqin was finally able to entrust him with the task of controlling desertification with peace of mind, and said her final goodbye to her late husband's portrait safely.
Today, Zhang Liqiang has been able to independently undertake the important affairs of the company and deal with various problems with ease. Niu Yuqin's granddaughters and grandchildren have also joined the Green Army after graduating from Forestry University, fighting side by side with their uncles, and jointly inheriting the great dream of desertification control.
They vividly interpret the profound concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" with practical actions, and continue to explore and innovate on the solid foundation laid by their ancestors, carry forward the family business, and make it bloom more brilliantly in the new era.