Feel the sweet life of the Chinese in Hongtang Village -Korean teacher Xu Xiding

Xu Xiding, a Korean teacher of Sun Yat -sen University (Photo Conferring)

At Sun Yat -sen University in Guangdong Province, a foreign teacher from South Korea named Xu Xiding. More than ten years ago, she came to China to study and live because she longed for a long and splendid history and culture. In 2021, foreign teachers from Xu Xiding and the International Translation College of Sun Yat -sen University went to Fengqing County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province to visit a place called "Hongtang Village" to investigate and investigate the local rural rejuvenation.

For the upcoming Hongtang Village, Xu Xiding was a little curious at first. Does this village produce sugar? Is there any sweet legend? While she was full of thoughts, she prepared for travel:

"I started to be curious, because I haven't seen the real countryside in China, and I feel very good. Fengqing in Yunnan is a assistance area designated by I was working at Sun Yat -sen University, so I look forward to going to this place."

Fengqing County, Yunnan Province, winding to Hongtang Village (Photo by Liu Keyi)

Along the way, the car turned along the winding Panshan Highway over the mountains. Xu Xingding told us that because of the new airport in Lincang, it was able to fly from Guangdong to Lincang quickly and conveniently. It takes more than two hours to drive from Lincang Airport to Fengqing County. She said that the local road traffic conditions were not the same as she heard. Before the development, the roads were still muddy, but the construction of these years has changed here:

“这个机场也是很干净的，里边的这些设备都非常完善。我下飞机之后，就坐了公交，开了半天的车，道路很平。一旦修了路之后，这个地方可以发展，可以有一些物资（ Transportation), (with the outside world) to communicate. "

Ren Chao (first from right), the fourth batch of medical team captains in Fengqing County, Yunnan Province in Yunnan Province, exchanged with the oncologist of the Oncology Department of Fengqing County People's Hospital (Photo by Zhao Nan)

In Xu Xiding's view, if you want to know whether a place has good living conditions, you must visit the local hospital. Xu Xingding and other foreign teachers came to the New Hospital of Fengqing County People's Hospital. Here are a clean feeling. It is composed of several ward areas. The ward and operating room are located in the central ward. This is really amazing: this dedicated to scientific research and teaching:

"If you go directly to this hospital, you ca n’t feel the rural hospital. Because it is the equipment inside, the structure inside is exactly the same as the city."

During the investigation, Xu Xingding and foreign teachers met an expert at the field of Sun Yat -sen University. Not only did she pass the highly difficult medical technology in China to the local doctors, but she also made positive efforts for local disease prevention and medical technology training. Xu Xiding learned that in Fengqing County, there are still many such doctors:

"Many excellent doctors are coming to help. I think it is a very touching scene. They take turns to send these doctors, the shortest three months, one or two years long, one is to see more serious patients and give them to them to perform them for them. Treatment, at the same time, also trains medical staff in education institutions, and has trained many doctors with technical ability. "

Xu Xiding (front left) Interactive exchanges with students in a primary school in Hongtang Village, Fengqing County, Yunnan Province (Photo Conferring)

Xu Xiding noticed that in the primary and secondary schools in Fengqing County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, each classroom is installed with smart touch screens, which can play a role in daily classroom teaching. What impressed her the most was the children I saw in Hongtang Village Primary School. Xu Xiding said that she had a worry before whether these children would be afraid after seeing so many foreigners, but when she walked to them, these worries did not exist. Zhang Zhang's brilliant and cheerful smile.

Xu Xiding said that Fengqing County has been an important base on the ancient tea horse road since ancient times. There are ancient tea trees in the local area, and tea culture has a long history. At present, local people also have the tea research institute for the production and processing of tea according to local conditions. Xu Xiding saw that on the hillside of Fengqing County, there were neatly arranged walnut trees everywhere. Factory processing walnuts into walnut oil. People are working hard to develop new products. The industry chain of walnuts is gradually extending:

"We see a lot of walnuts. They have a lot of walnut trees. Some experts from university introduce them to some processing methods. Design competitions, give them some beautiful designs, this is a method for the development of ecological resources. "

Yang Yong, a villager in Hongtang Village, Fengqing County, Yunnan Province, showed the picking tea (Photo by Zhao Nan)

During the investigation, Xu Xiding learned that the local government actively guided residents living on the mountain to relocate to the village. In order to allow them to quickly integrate into the new environment and give them various preferential policies. In the process, the local government departments and the participating in the assistance plan of Sun Yat -sen University jointly thinking about solutions:

"They are economically independent. It is not just solving the current problem, but step by step, they can also see the five years behind. I think this is a major significance of rural revitalization. It is a very complete system. This result will only be there. "

In November 2021, Xu Xingding shared what he saw and heard in a cultural tourism international forum, so that foreign experts and scholars participating in the conference learned about China's rural revitalization and development experience: "I participated in this inspection activity at that time.When I come back to write some reports, I think this can really be introduced to foreign scholars. Because I saw that it really had this testimony, I saw that there were changes in the countryside. "

Xu Xingding told us that she likes to work and live in China.Every day here, she can feel new changes, and the future of China has infinite possibilities:

"I have been living in China for almost 10 years. I can find a new change every day. I think China is a country that has broken myself every day and challenges myself every day."

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