Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi, May 7 Electric title: Pamir "Sisters Flower": Mountain Sheep Baby Becomes Urban College Student
Xinhua News Agency reporters Gao Han, Yu Tao, Dong Yalei
In the Pamirs Plateau surrounded by the mountains, there is such a pair of "sister flowers": after more than ten years of hard work, they walked from the plateau pasture to the university campus, from the mountain goats into urban students, for their dream life Outline a beautiful picture.
Jipal Shawaridi and Qierhali Shawvaridi are a pair of sisters and were born in an ordinary Kirgiz herdsman family in Wuqia County, Xinjiang. Historically, children in the pastoral areas of the Pamirs have had fewer opportunities for higher education because of scattered living, hard environment, and poverty, and many people can only repeat the nomadic life of their parents.
"If there is no such a good learning environment and opportunity, my sister and I can only continue to be sheep-fed." In the eyes of her sister, Kirhari Shatvari, the family has changed a lot in the past ten years.
Before moving to settle, the family could only squeeze into a dilapidated earthen house in a plateau mountainous area with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. The transportation was inconvenient, and water and electricity were not guaranteed.
After 2014, the family moved to Xingmu Xincun, a settled village under the mountain. Water, electricity, and electricity were connected to the house, and the road was repaired at the door.
As China's investment in poverty-stricken areas continues to increase, the teaching level of the sisters' primary and secondary schools continues to increase, more and more children go to cities to study, and many people go to inner cities to go to cities outside Xinjiang to go to high schools.
"I really didn't expect that I could go to school in the field." Qier Hari Shatvari said that she was an excellent student since she was a child. In 2014, she was admitted to Qingshan Senior High School in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province.
"I like the lifestyle of big cities. After college entrance examination, I did not hesitate to choose to go to university outside the territory." Qier Hari Shatvari said, "I am very glad that the original choice was able to see the wider world outside the mountains. . "
Today, this child who has stepped out of Dashan is a sophomore major in Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
"Learning finance can count sheep faster. Haha, this is a joke." She said with a humorous smile, "Actually, my dream is to work in a bank, and I want to be president."
This year's senior sister, Jipar Shatvari, is about to graduate from Changji College. She has long-term plans for her future. "My major is mathematics, and my dream is to be a math teacher in my hometown. I grew up in the Pamirs. I understand that children here desperately want to get out of the mountains, and I want to help them realize their dreams."
The two sisters said that they are now out of the mountains and would like to thank their parents. Because no matter how difficult life was in the past, parents did not allow them to suffer from learning.
"It is difficult to watch parents make money when they go to school, so they want to drop out of school to make money and reduce the burden on the family." Jipar Shatvari said, "Every time I talk about this idea with my parents, I will always be scolded. Learning is the best way to repay your parents. "
Now, because there are two college students in the family, parents have become the envy of the neighborhood.
During the winter and summer vacations, the sisters will appear on the farmer night school, telling the villagers their personal experiences; they will share the most popular songs and movies with the children around them; they will actively help the neighbors solve some life problems ... gradually They have also become "reds" and pride in the eyes of neighbors.
Right now, the change continues. More and more college students are coming out of the mountain, and the story of "Sister Flower" is still being staged in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountain, just like the mountain flowers blooming on the Pamirs in spring, one by one in the mountains.