Struggler is youth ｜ Taking root Shahai Dreams come true

Eight -step sand in summer, a cluster of green sandy plants such as shuttles, lemon strips, flower sticks, red willows, etc. cover the yellow sand. Five years ago, it was the scene in front of Guo Xi's heart. In May 2017, the 32 -year -old Guo Xi decided to stay in the eight -step sand and continue to treat the sand and green along the footprints of the ancestors and parents.

The eight -step sand is located in Gulang County, Gansu. Before the 1980s, the dunes here pushed south at a rate of 10 meters each year. The surrounding farmland and roads were often buried by yellow sand. In the spring of 1981, six elderly people in Tumen Town, Gulang County entered the eight -step sand in the form of joint accounts and formed a collective forest farm. The six elderly people were affectionately called "six old men" by the locals, and became the first generation of sand controller in the eight -step sand. Guo Chaoming, the grandfather of Guo Xi, was one of the "six old men".

The home of the six old men was 7 kilometers away from the sand control point. The eight -step sand became green, and the six old men's head was also white. In the 1990s, the first generation of sand controller walked 4, and the remaining two could not do it, but the eight -step sand has not been governed. No matter how difficult it is, the descendants of the six families must have a person's relay control. In 1983, Guo Chaoming's son Guo Wangang abandoned the "iron rice bowl" of the supply and marketing cooperatives in Tusen Town, and returned home to control the sand and plant trees, becoming the earliest second -generation sand controller.

Guo Xi, who had planted trees in the sand nest since childhood, was no stranger to sand control. "At that time, I played with it, picking sand dates and chasing rabbits in the bushes, and I couldn't help it, and sometimes I helped." Now I think of the childhood past, and Guo Xi, who was dark, smiled embarrassedly. Very bitter, you see that our face is dark, and when I grow up, I want to leave this place. "

Before 2016, Guo Xi worked outside and learned to open the loader. There were more than 5,000 yuan per month. Every year when the workshop is stopped, he will return home to help the uncle Guo Wangang cure sandy trees together. In the spring of the coming spring, he continues to work.

"Young people have dreams, and the income in the forest farm is not high. It only has a salary of 2,500 yuan per month. I want to break through outside." Guo Xi recalled that when he returned to plant trees in the winter of 2016, he saw that when he returned to plant trees, he saw that he saw the tree and saw it. The old uncle is old, and he is also struggling with him. In the end, should you stay?

One day in mid -May 2017, Guo Xi, who was going to leave home, drove a van to enter the forest farm, and wanted to see these trees again. "I have seen the largest waters since I was a child. I haven't seen the sea. I saw a piece of lemon bloom that day, and it felt like a sea of ​​flowers." In a moment, Guo Xi was witnessed by himself. It was moved, "If Grandpa and Uncle do not control the sand, how can there be the sea of ​​flowers today? This is a great thing."

The green agreement of the ancestors and the sea of ​​lemon let Guo Xi decide to stay and become the third -generation sand controller of the eight -step sand. After years of management of the three generations, Eight -step Sand has now become a vibrant green barrier with more than 10 kilometers north and south and more than 8 kilometers width of east to west. Many vegetation protects nearly 100,000 acres of farmland in 3 townships in the surrounding area, and the entire wind sand line of Gulang County has retreated more than 20 kilometers.

Today's eight -step sand has been covered by strong greenness, but Guo Xi's work is not easy, and he is busy every day. "In the spring of this year, there are few rain and water, and the amount of forests of the new species is large, relying on this eye well." When seeing Guo Xi, he was hardening from the provincial highway from the provincial highway to the forest farm well. Guo Xi showed a thick smile: "The nearby highway is trimmed, and some waste residues are cleared. I pulled it over to pad this road. The waterwheel was better and saved time."

In the spring of this year, the eight -step sand forest farm completed 30,000 acres of ants and sand in the sand area in the northern part of Gulang County. Greening and supplementing more than 10,000 seedlings.

"The love is not good, and the tree species should be worried in the later stage." Guo Xi said that the conditions are much better than the Grandpa and the uncle tree. People drive the "three horses" (agricultural tricycles) to pull the trees. Now they have large water trucks to pour the trees, and the irrigation efficiency is much higher.

The efficiency of the sand -governance trees is going up, Guo Xi can make more things to do more. On the short video platform, Guo Xi registered the account of the eight -step Salin farm. Every day, he will publish the work scene and the change of the work scene and the change of the forest farm on the Internet every day. When he is not busy, he will also promote products such as the scattered chickens of the eight steps of the eight steps of the eight steps.

"The ancestors and parents planted this forest. Our responsibility must not only expand green, guard the green, but also spread green, let more people know eight steps of sand, and the story of sand and greenness." It seems that you are not the only third -generation sand controller. "I plant trees here. You can participate in the green public welfare project in the office. ! "(Our reporter Chen Jiangang)

Source: Economic Daily

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