Yan Tongcai Wen, a young man from Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, worked for PetroChina after graduating from graduate school. Today (15th), he sent a video to "Shanghai Abba" and advised: "Don't be too tired, pay attention to rest." ”
After graduating, a young girl in the second grade of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, she called "Shanghai Abba" to report to him on her recent study...
The "Shanghai Abba" that the children shout in their mouths and read in their hearts is Zhang Zhiyong.
Today (15th), the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, and the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission jointly released the advanced deeds of the "Most Beautiful Veterans" in 2021. Zhang Zhiyong, chairman of Shanghai Zhang Zhiyong Public Welfare Service Society, won the title of "The Most Beautiful Retired Soldier". Countless people congratulated him, but he was frank: this honor will spur him to continue to go on.
After demobilization, Zhang Zhiyong did not forget the true color of the military, in the past 20 years, he has long been committed to helping the poor and helping students in Yunnan, and established a public welfare service club in 2014, through this love platform to achieve from "single-handed charity" to "integration of resources and help". Up to now, the public welfare service cooperative has donated nearly 3 million yuan and donated nearly 600 tons of various materials, benefiting nearly 50,000 poor students and more than 500 teachers. He has personally sponsored more than 500 students in the form of scholarships for a long time.
"A soldier is the one that everyone can rely on and can count on, and he can help one."
To survive is to win
By the beginning of next year, Zhang Zhiyong has been helping poor students in Yunnan for 20 years. Shanghai is about 2,700 kilometers from Yunnan. The number of trips was so great that he couldn't even remember it. In the first half of this year, he has traveled back and forth between Shanghai and Yunnan four times, delivering more than 100 tons of materials to Yunnan.
In the early years, Zhang Zhiyong took the initiative to "drill" into the remote areas of Yunnan to discover the expectations and needs of the local people. Back in Shanghai, he went out of his own pocket to buy and collect supplies, and then loaded them into trucks and sent them to the local area for distribution one by one.
Soon, several suites and several cars were "filled" in. At the most difficult time, when he was Chinese New Year's Eve one year, he and his wife took out the only remaining change coefficient in the family, spread out one note after another, and stacked one steel hammer after another, so they made up nearly 100 yuan and bought a few cooked vegetables as Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
When his family complained that "I didn't see a splash" and people around me suggested that "I really can't do it so much", Zhang Zhiyong had his own insistence: "Promise to help others, how can you give up halfway." ”
Recalling his experience in the North Sea Fleet, he told himself that to survive was victory.
Zhang Zhiyong spent time in a state-owned enterprise after being demobilized, and also went to the sea to do business, and soon he thought of mobilizing his "circle of friends". More and more people and resources joined in, which made Lao Zhang feel relieved and determined to carry the responsibility to the end.
The good times have made iterative for public welfare to help the poor
In order to better help the local people in Yunnan get rid of poverty and get rich, for a long time, Zhang Zhiyong ate and lived with the locals.
Donate a few quilts and a few sets of clothes, and you can't break the "poor roots". This kind-hearted and world-class "Shanghai Abba" pondered how to teach the locals to live up their brains, work hard, make good use of local resources, and actively get rich.
He taught local farmers to take the initiative to cultivate and cultivate, and through the network to dock with the market and sell local products; he also supported the residents of the town to develop processing industries and develop local businesses in line with the times. Over the years, families who have made a fortune have built buildings one after another.
Everyone has caught up with the good times, and Zhang Zhiyong's public welfare project for helping the poor has also been iterated.
Supplies are still transported as usual, but from the earliest clothing miscellaneous, it has developed into the current computer desks and chairs, modern small household appliances and so on.
In particular, in the past two years, volunteers from Fortune 500 companies have taken the initiative to come to the door and go with him to Yunnan to open "science small classes" in local schools to broaden children's horizons and open their dreams and wisdom.
The service society has become a new era civilization practice base
The goodwill sown in the past 20 years has accumulated in the long river of time, and it has surged endless back in Zhang Zhiyong's heart.
The children he sponsored were almost all out of work, admitted to college, found good jobs, and even rated as advanced in the unit every year. They want to share with "Shanghai Abba" no matter how big or small, and listen to his advice.
Zhang Zhiyong also did not stop for a moment. His public welfare service agency has gradually developed into a "hub", which not only gathers more and more volunteers and love resources, but also becomes a new era civilization practice base in the city.
At present, the number of volunteers from inside and outside the city has reached nearly 1,000. The transmission of love materials has also expanded from Yunnan to Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang and other places.
Each time, before distributing the bursaries and donated materials, Zhang Zhiyong had to personally visit and confirm, conduct field research needs, and produce dynamic management files... Ensure that every funded project has a purpose, and the materials and energy to help the poor are always spent on the "blade". He said: "Be strict and responsible, make the help more accurate and effective, and make every kindness and love valuable." ”
Author: Gu Yiqiong
Images courtesy of interviewees
Editor: Wang Wanyi