Dai Rongli, vice mayor of Ruili, sent a text: Please save this heroic city

On October 28, Dai Rongli, vice mayor of Ruili, posted an article on the WeChat public account entitled "Ruili Needs the Love of the Motherland", the full text of which is as follows:

Have you heard the beautiful song "There's a Beautiful Place"? This is written by the famous musician Yang Fei. The lyrics depict the beauty of the moving frontier town, the euphemism is enchanting, do you know where the small town described in the song is?

Have you ever been to one village and two countries, this beautiful place, there are swings that can fly between the two countries, there are poems written by Mr. Chen Yi, there are children in foreign villages who study in Chinese schools, and ethnic minority women with collars around their necks... Do you know which city that village belongs to?

Do you know the beauty of the lone tree forest? It is like a large umbrella that stretches out, shielding the projection of sunlight. The area of the tree shadows is beyond your imagination. At the head of each village, there will be a huge banyan tree, and the villagers live in harmony with nature, do you know which city this beauty will be located in?

There is a waterfall deep in the forest that seems to fall from the sky, and the wet and slippery road is flowing with roaring mountain streams. The woods are home to a variety of rare flora and fauna. The butterfly will stop in the palm of your hand and will not fly away, the peacock is listening to the sound of you calling it, a few thick trees, you may not be able to call its name, this is called the great forest of the kingdom of animals and plants, do you know which city it belongs to?

Once upon a time, as a battlefield for the anti-Japanese resistance, it attracted many anti-Japanese forces. Ocean mechanics, anti-Japanese expeditionary forces - this heroic city! He contributed greatly to the establishment of the Republic. Did you know that the city still retains this magnificent history?

The city, which has served as a witness to history, remembers the beginning of The friendship between China and Myanmar and the details of the friendship between the two peoples for generations; after the reform and opening up, the city has tasted the fruits of The friendship between China and Myanmar. There is the largest jadeite market in the country, and the merchants engaged in the operation of baoyu can make a profit of tens of millions of yuan a year. In the early morning and evening, the sound of celebratory firecrackers sounded, and it was the stone gamblers who met the joy again. Do you know the name of the city?

If you walk down the street, you can see not only the Dai, Jingpo, Deang, and Lisu ethnic groups, but also the Rohingya and other ethnic groups coming from the Burmese capital. The city's rapid economic development in recent years has attracted many foreigners and people from inland provinces to pan for gold, and the majority of the country are zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Henan. Do you know how strongly inclusive the city's culture is?

The city has pilaf, rice buns, small pots of rice wine, sour lemons, sweet passion fruit, fragrant rice with a waist pole that stands up more than two meters high, small hotels under large banyan trees, water tanks for pedestrians to quench their thirst in Dai villages, ethnic minority brothers who blow gourd silk, beautiful peacock dances, traditional silk fabrics... There are also small flower dogs strolling around, and Nongmo Lake, where the center of the lake is full of egrets... Do you know how much more beauty the city has?

If you have been to this city, everything in this city will leave a very deep impression on you. If I say that this is a flexible city, a place of heavenly beauty, but now it has become a city that makes the people who live in it feel afraid, let the envy of the outsiders worry, and let all those who like this city and love this city feel the heart, do you believe it?

A once beautiful and elegant city, a desirable and pleasant place, a cultural city with a history of ethnic minorities, a small border city with a huge trade volume, a small city that guards the gate of the country and makes the Chinese and Burmese people feel happy, in an instant, it is frozen into a silent and ghostly city.

The epidemic has ruthlessly plundered the city, over and over again, squeezing out the last shred of life of the city and devouring the hopes that have just been ignited by countless people. Let many people wait in hope, and feel endless torture and suffering in waiting. The relentless virus, repeated attacks, five lockdowns, has caused countless dislocations in the city's nature and humanities, history and reality, frontiers and inland, China and Myanmar. Once the city is locked down, there is a serious emotional and material loss, and once the anti-epidemic experience, there is a layer of resentment. The public servants were accustomed to the long-term adherence to the frontier line, and also endured more severe rounds of suffering in this kind of fatigue; the common people also exhausted the needs of subsistence in the torture again and again, and when another epidemic came, the people of the city, once again, became the recipients of passive life, lacking in song, lacking hope, and lacking the continuation of business to maintain their livelihood. Despite the efforts of the government departments, for a city, it is extremely torturous, even inland cities. Ruili was once a city rich in the people, and the government's public finances, lack of strong economic foundation, long border protection, and round after round of epidemic spending have overwhelmed the city. Although several epidemics have had dedicated cadres dismissed, it is fair to say that the overstretched finances and the toss of people and the arduous responsibility of national protection have made this small city no longer able to bear its weight. Thus, the complaints of the people arose at any time; the government's prudence became more and more careful, and nightmares and illusions arose one after another, and this small city was suffering from a catastrophe that would never be encountered in a lifetime.

Let a small city bear more responsibilities at the same time, should give this small city more care in place. Since the small city has assumed the responsibility for the prevention and control of the national gate, the mother of the motherland must extend a powerful hand at this time to protect this tortured child.

The barbed wire cannot resist the desire to survive, and the protection in place is the basis of relief. The epidemic has no borders, this small city, needs the support of the state to change the defense of a strong army, one can allow local civil servants to breathe, and then can prevent the desire window of individual local protection personnel; the long-term lockdown has formed a dead knot in the development of this city. The resumption of production and the necessary operations was urgent. The government should sum up the lessons learned, take into account the overall situation and the local, people's livelihood and control of all aspects, and comprehensively consider the governance plan. Survival is important in self-help, the resumption of production and trade is very necessary, in the case of relatively strict or controllable protective measures, it is necessary to open some business premises moderately; the state should give Ruili a large amount of financial support, a large number of public welfare organizations, should also lend a strong hand at this time; those who return to China and surrender themselves should set up independent identification zones and protective areas, which should not cause more social turmoil in the city; a large number of medical personnel and psychological counseling personnel should be transported to all aspects of the city.

Please save this heroic city! Stay tuned for this beautiful border town!! Please give the city a promising future!!! No one can predict the future epidemic, let those school-age children have schooling, let the men and women who have just opened their hearts have love, let every people who want to embrace nature have a chance to talk with birds, and let the town regain its former vitality and cuteness... This requires the help of the people of the whole country, and it also requires the people of small cities to use their brains and take action.

Look forward to when you talk about this beautiful city again, no longer worry about the heart, I really hope ah - Ruili's Ruili!

(Written on Thursday, October 28, 2021 in Cuicheng Youyanzhai)