Chengdu, April 20 (Xinhua) -- "I have come a long way and suffered a lot before I delivered this doctoral dissertation to you. Twenty-two years of study, all the way to the wind and rain and mud, many are not easy. It was like a dream, as if the family had been reunited yesterday. Recently, the acknowledgment part of a doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has aroused heated discussion on the Internet. The author Huang Guoping recalled how he went all the way out of the mountains, worked hard to learn and the story of the struggle of fate, and touched many netizens.
The reporter came to the author Huang Guoping's hometown - Yilong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, interviewed relatives, village cadres and school teachers and classmates familiar with him, and restored the story of a "cold door student" who struggled hard to change his destiny.
The "shimmering" teenager who walked out of torchlight township
Starting from Yilong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, drive along the winding mountain road for nearly 20 kilometers to the torchlight rural community of Yongguang Town. After a rainy day and another 20 minutes' walk along the muddy mountain road, it is a two-story abandoned cottage with only a brick frame. Here, it is the "small mountain pass" mentioned in Huang Guoping's thesis acknowledgement, and it is also his home when he was a child.
Directly opposite the brick house is the residence of Huang Guoping's uncle, 76-year-old Huang Guojun. From birth to before reading, Huang Guoping spent his childhood in the four walls of his family.
"My mother ran away from home, my father died in a car accident, and the people he could rely on were me and his brother." Huang Guojun recalled the years more than 20 years ago, full of heartache for Huang Guoping to experience family changes at such a young age, when he watched him sleep on the bed board was full of mud, the roof was still leaking rain, Huang Guojun directly took him to his home.
Huang Guojun was most impressed by the filial piety and diligence of his nephew. "He was reluctant to play, and every time he came home from school he would help the family herd cattle, and when he herded the cattle, he would hold a book and read it." Usually, when the farm work is done, I go back to the house to write my homework. Huang Guojun said.
At that time, in order to raise more than 200 yuan of tuition and miscellaneous fees, Huang Guoping caught yellow eels, raised piglets, and completed junior high school with the help of neighbors around him. Huang Jun, secretary of the party branch of Juguang Rural Community, recalled that when the two families lived close together, Huang Guoping would often come to his house to visit. "He always had good grades, when everyone else had electric lights, he could only light kerosene from the town, and after 12 o'clock at night he could still see him studying, and a little glimmer leaked out of the house."
The mountains can't stop the love and tenacity
"At that time, I learned that his family's economic situation was not good, and the school gave him all tuition and miscellaneous fees." Huang Guoping said Rao Bin, the class teacher when he was in high school at Yilong Middle School.
On April 19, Huang Guoping said in "A Letter to Netizens", "As one of the many students who came out of the mountains, I have benefited from the help of the state, the government, the school, the society, teachers and caring people, including but not limited to Juguang Township Primary School, Dayin Town Middle School, Yilong Middle School, Mianyang Nanshan Middle School, Southwest University, the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and especially the careful training of doctoral supervisor Zong Chengqing, I have come to this day." ”
Although his family was poor and his fate was bumpy, he was supported by many kinds of love and his tenacious spirit. In his thesis acknowledgement, Huang Guoping said that his belief was to "read the book down, then go out and live in vain." "Going out" here, in addition to physically going out of the mountains, is more of a spiritual broadening of horizons.
Like Huang Guoping, over the years, more and more children in the village have come out of the mountains. Rao Bin introduced that among the 7 people in Huang Guoping's dormitory, he was admitted to harbin institute of technology, Chongqing university, southwest jiaotong university and other famous universities. In the past three years, nearly 300 students have entered key universities across the country for further study.
"Since 2017, a total of 11,000 students in our county have been identified as poor students in Lika. In the process of education poverty alleviation, we have established a mechanism to control dropouts and ensure that no student in the compulsory education stage has dropped out of school due to poverty. Wang Yinglong, director of the Yilong County Education Science and Technology and Sports Bureau, introduced that in the past 5 years, the county has invested a total of 3.65 billion yuan to implement the county education expansion project, and truly achieve "where the city develops, the school will be built."
"Cold door" can not destroy the will, "hard work will eventually be successful"
The world made me scratch all over my body, but the wounds grew wings. Although Huang Guoping's path to study is arduous, his strong willpower and tenacious spirit have also inspired many people.
Wang Cuiping, a student in the second (23rd) class of Yilong County Middle School, said that Huang Guoping's education path was difficult, but he has always been full of youthful enthusiasm. "My family is not very well-off, but the senior has set an example for our children in the countryside. The most important thing now is to read. When you have the ability later, you will fund people like us who have difficulties in learning and life. ”
"At present, some young people shrink back when they encounter difficulties, and there is a mentality of self-hatred and self-pity. Huang Guoping's experience is a kind of inspiration and wake-up call. Jia Xiaohan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Psychiatry of the Fourth People's Hospital of Chengdu and a national intermediate psychotherapist, said that in a person's life, difficulties are bound to be encountered, and it is impossible to avoid solving problems, and only by maintaining a positive and upward attitude can we overcome difficulties and walk out of the "big mountain" in our hearts.
As Huang Guoping said to netizens: "I wish everyone to achieve success in their efforts!" (End)
Source: Xinhua News Agency