The poplar forest blown by the warm wind

Standing at the door of the barracks, there were two rows of towering poplar forests. In the cold wind, they stand unyielding and upright, stretching side by side. Just like the glorious image of the officers and soldiers of a certain unit stationed in Xinjiang and the local people sworn to the death to defend the stability and national unity of the border areas.

The tears of Abulahat

Winter in Kashgar. Raw and cold.

Standing at the door of the army barracks, there were two rows of towering poplar trees. In the cold wind, they stand unyielding and upright, stretching side by side. Just like the glorious image of the officers and soldiers of a certain unit stationed in Xinjiang and the local people sworn to the death to defend the stability and national unity of the border areas.

At the other end of the poplar forest is the Bayi Aimin School in Shule County, Kashgar. On that beautiful and magnificent campus, a weekly flag-raising ceremony is being held at the moment. In the magnificent and loud sound of the national anthem, Abulahat, a young Uygur teacher, looked at the slowly rising five-star red flag, and tears filled his eyes on the morning of January 12 this year. Gunshots were again heard in the county business district, and six rioters tried to detonate bombs in a dense crowd, all of which were killed by our public security police. Abulahat's tears not only regret the loss of the lives of those ignorant partners who have been brainwashed by extremist forces, but also feel gratified by the healthy and happy growth of hundreds of children around them.

Do you know who gave us all this today? The last note of the national anthem fell. Abulahat pointed to the beautiful campus behind him and could not help asking the students loudly.

know! It's the people's Liberation Army!

Yes. It is our closest and dearest PLA! There was a gratified smile on Abulahat's face.

Teacher Abulahat looked at the five-star red flag flying in the hunt and had a lot of thoughts. He knows that among Uighur teenagers, only those who are ignorant and do not strive for progress are easily taken advantage of by bad people, and those who have received good education and knowledge will not be easily bewitched by evil and extremist forces. There will be no more fear and violence in Xinjiang tomorrow. To this end, Abulahat is extremely grateful to the PLA officers and soldiers who have created favorable conditions for their children to go to school.

This is the good news from the children taught by Abulahat to the Chief of the General staff: we are students of Bayi Aimin School in Shule County, Kashi, Xinjiang. We have been admitted to the junior high school class in Xinjiang this year, and we are going to study in Urumqi soon. This is the farthest place for our 10 students to leave their hometown. The headmaster, teachers and parents are all proud of us. Students all envy us and deeply thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your rising teaching buildings, dormitory buildings and canteens, not only for your love and care for us, but also for your encouragement, so that we have the confidence to climb the heights courageously, to love everything in the school, and to love the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland. Love your loved ones, the PLA.

What never occurred to the children and the teacher Abulahat was that not only did they receive a reply soon, but also on the eve of National Day last year, a certain department of the General staff Department sent the head of the political Department of the Ministry to Urumqi to visit them, and brought 200000 yuan of condolences and a lot of study and daily necessities.

Some headquarters of the General staff Department and Bayi Aimin School are located in the same place called Yonaizike Village. Yonairik means "beside a canal" in Uygur language. But the village beside the canal is in the saline-alkali land where the wind blows stones all the year round, there are no birds in the sky, and there are white flowers on the ground. The Gobi Desert, which is dry and short of water, still seems to clearly hook and sink the dust of the army city in the western region thousands of years ago. What can grow is always barren. Because they don't know Chinese, they have no idea what the outside world is like. People who have no knowledge here are like a pile of dead branches falling in the desert. When they are picked up and lit by a demon fire, they become bad people who harm and bring calamity to the country. The East Turkistan separatist forces make use of such people to constantly create trouble, making the beautiful southern Xinjiang worrying.

However, Baren Township is different. Because of the existence of that lush, straight and firm poplar forest, and because of decades of warm wind blowing and warm, this land is always full of harmony and warmth.

Draught do not forget to dig wells, thanks to relatives of the people's Liberation Army. At the entrance of Yonghe Izhik village, my eyes were attracted by the two lines of Uygur Chinese on the stone tablet next to the well. Although it is winter, I still seem to hear the gurgling clear spring making a cheerful sound in the long ditch. A Uygur man told me: in the spring of 1991, many villagers in the village of Yonaizhike inexplicably developed diarrhea. In particular, the children in the village are even more seriously ill. When a certain department of the general staff of the garrison learned of the incident, it immediately sent someone to the village to learn about the situation and learned from the doctor that it was caused by drinking water. Next to a supporting dam (puddle) in front of a villager's home, the PLA officers and men immediately frowned: can you not get sick by drinking such dirty water?

Xu Huiming, the then chief of the management section, the old soldier from southern Xinjiang, flew on his bike and went straight to Kashgar City, where he quickly got in touch with the local drilling team. As a result, an intense well-drilling battle began for three days and three nights, and Xu Huiming and the rest of the officers and soldiers ate and lived at the scene, selecting sites, exploration and drilling. On the day of the trial pumping, when the clear spring gushed out from the center of the earth, the whole audience was roaring with gongs and drums, which was more lively than the festival.

The Uygur people and children held the sweet spring in their hands and burst into tears. This military-civilian heart-to-heart well has since closely connected the hearts of the officers and men of a certain unit of the General staff with the hearts of the local people. What a harmonious and beautiful day it was: during the busy wheat harvest season, the army sent teams of officers and soldiers to help with the harvest; before the children began school, the officers and soldiers sent brand-new clothes, shoes and schoolbags; when the day of growing grapes came, villagers Tuerku always came to the camp with farmers to help the army cultivate new seedlings; on holidays, Yuan Dangping, an engineer, led his apprentices from village to village to repair televisions and farm tools for the villagers. On August 1st, Spring Festival, Gurbang Festival and Meizi Festival, the army and people give songs and gifts to each other more like relatives.

The memory of a veteran

Bang! Bang, bang!

The 2526 terrorist incident in Yili in 1997 broke the serenity and harmony in Xinjiang. In the years since then, the East Turkistan separatist forces have intensified their infiltration and frequent violence in southern Xinjiang, and the Kashgar area inhabited by Uighurs has become the main battlefield for the control of terrorism and counter-terrorism.