The theatrical film "Rooting" is based on the reportage "The Legendary Life of Ding Mudi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" by Mr. Ma Jinxiang, a famous writer and senior editor of Gansu Radio and Television General Station, directed by Hong Baosheng and starring well-known actors such as Hong Jiantao and Deji. The film is a masterpiece of ethnic themes that reflects the harmonious coexistence of all ethnic groups, and it is also an excellent teaching material for carrying out propaganda and education on national unity and progress, which is of great significance to promoting the cause of national unity and progress.
The film tells that forty years ago, eleven- and twelve-year-old Xiao Mudi set off from his hometown Lintan to make a living in the Maqu Grassland, Xiao Mudi walked all the way exhausted, one day, hungry and cold, he finally could not walk, and xiao Mudi was unconscious and dying on the endless grassland. In the darkness of the day, the cattle herding DolmaCao Aunt found the unconscious Xiao Mudi, she rescued Xiao Mudi, from then on, Dolma Cao Aunt raised him as her own child, and encouraged Mudi to embark on the road of business. As an adult, Mudi regarded the people of all ethnic groups on the grassland as relatives, and he prepared to build a national middle school in his hometown, so that the children had the opportunity to receive education; He spares no effort to support needy families and help them on the road to prosperity; In order to cure the congenital heart disease of prairie children, he went around collecting funds for the children. The great love in MuDi's heart is the broad and deep love that Aunt Prairie taught him from her small words.
Li Xiaowei, a lovelorn girl, comes to the Gannan Grassland, and Mudi sees that she has a tendency to take her own life, and he tries to save her with fatherly love. Li Xiaowei followed Mu Di to various charity activities within his reach on the grassland, protecting the environment, helping the weak and the weak, and helping students with love. Gradually, the enthusiasm and simplicity of the people of Gannan deeply touched her, so that she found the hometown of her soul without the love of her parents since childhood, and also made her fall in love with the Gannan grassland. She admired Mudi, but also admired the tenacity of the people of all ethnic groups on the grassland, at the time of the sudden mudslide, Li Xiaowei followed Mudi to rescue and rescue the disaster, after experiencing the test of life and death, she understood the true meaning of life, decided to stay in the Gannan grassland, and used her life to repay the grassland people and build a beautiful grassland.
The protagonist of the film, Ding Mudi, is a native of Lintan who has served as vice chairman of the Lintan County CPPCC Committee, vice chairman of the Gannan Prefecture CPPCC Committee, member of the Gansu Provincial CPPCC Committee and member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Over the years, he has always integrated his deep patriotism and strong feelings of home and country into the national heart and cast into the national soul.
Rural revitalization, education first. In the 1990s, Ding Mudi initiated the establishment of the Lintan County Education Foundation and served as its president, and began to devote himself to social welfare undertakings. From being the president of the Lintan County Education Foundation in March 1994 to being appointed as the honorary president of the Lintan Charity Association in October 2020, he has gone through nearly 30 spring and autumn seasons on his own public welfare road.
Lintan County is located in a remote and impoverished area of ethnic minorities, with lagging economic development and a shortage of ethnic minority talents. Ding Mudi's first "masterpiece" as a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was to prepare for the construction of lintan County Nationalities Middle School, which solved the problem of some students having difficulty attending school at that time. In 1992, Lintan County Nationalities Middle School was completed. He made a generous statement at the inauguration ceremony: If you don't read, you will be poor and hard to get rid of! He also asked three questions: "Without reading, what hope does the Chinese nation have?" What is the hope for millions of families? What hope do the children in the mountains have?" His words are earnest, and his meaning is relevant. For the next 30 years, he has almost every year to reward outstanding students of all ethnic groups and hard-working teachers at an ethnic middle school in Lintan County. From helping poor households get rid of poverty to actively coordinating the surgical treatment of children with congenital heart disease, from building roads, developing water and electricity, and building scenic spots to donating money and materials for the Wenchuan earthquake and the Zhouqu mudslide, he can be seen everywhere busy with his dedication to public welfare undertakings.
Since the beginning of the battle against poverty, Ding Mudi has actively responded to the government's call to "teach people to fish, it is better to teach people to fish", while sending scarce materials to help households, actively helping poor households to develop industries, not only giving poor households "blood transfusion", but also continuously enhancing their "hematopoietic" function. Ding Mudi told them, "A person's good is not good, and when you get rich, you must not forget those villagers who are still in the stage of poverty, only when everyone has a good life, life will taste." ”
Since August 2020, Ding Mudi has successively recommended to the state party committee and the state government the "National Key University Teachers and Students Support Gannan Education Activities", "Qingbei Into Tao, Building Dreams lintan", "Taohuatan Water, River You Co-education" and other volunteer education activities led by the Lintan Charity Association, which have been highly valued by the prefecture party committee and the lintan county party committee and county government. Zhao Lingyun, deputy secretary of the state party committee and governor, coordinated teachers and students from key universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Central University for Nationalities, Lanzhou University, henan university and other key universities to participate in volunteer teaching activities, encouraged the Lintan Love Charity Association to build a broader social welfare platform, and absorbed industry elites from all over the country to devote themselves to the construction of Gannan and help the development of Gannan. Since the implementation of the national key university teachers' and students' support for Gannan education activities, a total of 96 teachers and students from 5 national first-class universities have participated in the volunteer teaching activities, and 632 students have benefited. The event opened up a new channel for China's top universities to support Gannan education with high-quality educational resources, and is the top lineup to support Gannan education in the past 42 years of reform and opening up.
In the past three years, under the leadership of Honorary President Ding Mudi and President Min Shengcai, Lintan Charity Association has funded a total of 1,720 students from special families, and won donations of funds, materials and other equivalent to 1.963 million yuan, which has been reported by mainstream media such as central, provincial and state media 12 times. In October 2019, Min Shengcai, president of the Lintan Charity Association, was credited by the Government Organization Department for his outstanding contributions to poverty alleviation. At present, the Lintan County Charity Association is contacting some well-known medical workers in the country, aiming to contribute to the improvement of local medical conditions and medical standards.
Although Ding Mudi retired from the relevant posts, his concern for the difficult groups did not stop, his thinking about the development of Gannan did not stop, and his trek on his own public welfare road did not stop. For 30 years, he has constantly infected with his own practical actions and touched everyone around him.
As a relative of overseas Chinese and a member of the ethnic and religious circles of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he regarded safeguarding ethnic unity, religious harmony, and obedience as his own responsibility, and preached the party's ethnic and religious policies to the masses of all ethnic groups at all times and in all places, and guided the masses of all nationalities to feel the gratitude of the party, listen to the party's words, and follow the party. He always said to the people around him: "We must love our country, only when the country becomes stronger, the people can straighten their waists wherever they go." Today, a theatrical film "Rooting", based on his legendary experience, has been released, artistically reproducing the real scene of the harmonious coexistence of Tibetan, Hui, Han and other ethnic groups under the inspiration of the party's ethnic policy, and singing a "ode to joy" of national unity.
Ding Mudi, 63 years old this year, still keeps the people's affairs in mind, conscientiously performs his duties, and actively contributes to the economic development, ethnic unity, religion, and conformity in minority areas and western regions in the form of motions and other means, constantly interprets his love for the country and his sincere heart for the cause of charity and education with practical actions, and conscientiously practices the original intention and mission of a CPPCC member.
(Text/Zhou Zong'er Mu Yongfu Photo/Mu Yongfu)
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