China News Agency, Hong Kong, May 4 Question: Hong Kong youths clearing roadblocks at the demonstration site: I think I stand on the battlefield for the country
China News Agency reporter Han Xingtong
In early autumn last year, thousands of bricks lay across the streets of Mong Kok, and black demonstrators built temporary roadblocks in an attempt to block passing vehicles. The police confronted them in front. Hong Kong girl Xiao Bai and more than a dozen fellow travellers walked into the rear road and cleared the roadblocks spontaneously. "These things don't need to be done by the police. Let's just do it." On May 4th Youth Day, Xiaobai was interviewed by a reporter from China News Service, recalling the half-year that he changed from a political cold to a passionate youth.
Reporters swarmed in and Jumei asked one after another: "Where did you come from? Why did you do this? Isn't it money?" During the riot, Xiaobai saw a demonstrator throwing a brick in her direction not far away , The strength was not enough, and fell halfway to the feet of a reporter next to him. So far, she is still excited. "I'm not afraid at all. At that time, I was full of passion. Under that atmosphere, I felt that I was standing on the battlefield for this country."
In a certain sense, Xiaobai's changes are forced by the environment. She made no secret that she once "few read the news and didn't care at all. I don't think it has anything to do with me." In June last year, the "Fugitive Offenders Regulation" was detonated to detonate public opinion and support or oppose each opinion. Xiao Bai was puzzled and angry that since then, there were only two positions left in society, which were incompatible with each other. "Classmates forced you to express your attitude. If you stand differently, you will be repelled. The posts posted by everyone are inseparable from politics. "The classmate told her that if you ignore politics, politics will come closer to you. The fear of being bottomed and crowded out makes her continue to endure this depression.
Until someone shared a document in the school's Long Shi interest group, with a large number of civil servants' mailboxes and telephones, urging everyone to send emails together asking civil servants to strike. "I'm so surprised, how do you have this kind of information, you are simply infringing on the rights of others." That was the first time, Xiao Bai, who has always said "it's nothing to do with himself", reported to the Office of the Personal Data Privacy Commissioner and chose to use Act against it.
On August 13, 2019, Mainland journalist Fu Guohao was attacked at the Hong Kong International Airport. Xiao Bai stared all the way at the live broadcast for several minutes. "I am very tense and sad. I want to know if anyone can help me in any way." She called the police, but a sense of helplessness still wrapped her, and also awoke her. "These people insult my compatriots, don't they insult me? He hates a Chinese, doesn't he hate me?" "After that day, she closed the social networking site, broke off with a group of classmates, and began to devote herself to supporting police rallies, designing publicity campaigns, and cleaning the Lennon wall and roadblocks. Xiaobai said that she is very affectionate to her compatriots in the Mainland, "because our blood is connected."
Growing up in Hong Kong, Xiaobai ’s impression of the mainland stayed in the elementary school and went to the country several times. “It ’s very backward, dirty, there are no trash cans on the roadside, and there is no internet.” Afterwards, it was modern China in general textbooks "The Chinese modern history in the textbooks is dark, turbulent, people can't eat enough, and the illiteracy rate is high." But out of love for Chinese culture and history, Xiaobai participated in an exchange group to Sichuan when he was in middle school. The disparity is great, "The change is too great, the network is good, and the food is delicious. I can't use the RMB. People look at me like a primitive person."
"Before the teacher always taught us to play the role of Hong Kong", Xiaobai believes that Hong Kong has fallen behind to some extent, and should seize the opportunity to find an advantage. In her eyes, this advantage is backed by Greater China. What can the younger generation do for the sake of Hong Kong? Xiaobai also thought about this issue, "If we want to be good for Hong Kong, we must let Hong Kong follow the national policy." The current Hong Kong society is full of an atmosphere: all rejections and oppositions related to the mainland, compared with neighboring Macau, but in Keeping up with the national policy, the development is getting better and better. Xiaobai said that it is time for Hong Kong youths to let go of prejudices, understand the affairs of the country, and keep up with the country. (Finish)