Editor's note
The ups and downs of 2020 have passed. This year we fight the epidemic together, and this year we fight against poverty.
Through 2020, we will experience together, persevere and struggle together. We encourage each other, warm each other, and comfort each other.
Ushering in the new year, our lives will open a new chapter, and our country will embark on a new journey.
At the moment the calendar turns over, we should look back at the past, and we also have reasons to look forward to the future.
In 2021, we are here waiting for you...
On the 17th lunar month of the Year of the Pig (January 11, 2020), the ancient city of Pingyao, which has a history of 2,700 years, officially launched the "Pingyao Chinese Year". It is ready to welcome 800,000 tourists from all over China and abroad.
On January 11, 2020, the ancient city of Pingyao launched the "Pingyao Chinese Year" event.
The ancient city of Pingyao, which was supposed to welcome 800,000 tourists from home and abroad, press the pause button.
However, ten days later, when the new crown pneumonia outbreak broke out, Pingyao officially launched joint prevention and control.
On January 23, on the day when Wuhan was "closed", the ancient city of Pingyao closed its scenic spots and cultural tourism activities.
Pingyao is one of the birthplaces of Shanxi merchants. The ticket number of a hundred years ago made Pingyao "connect the world"
On the afternoon of January 25, Shanxi Province launched a first-level response to major public health emergencies.
At this time, in Huozhou, a small city in southwestern Shanxi, towns and villages quickly switched to a closed mode, social fire drills were suspended, and visits to relatives and friends were suspended.
The streets are empty, but family affection is growing stronger.
"I hope people will last, see you in blooming season" people turn to online New Year greetings!
Disease control personnel wait for villagers who have been released from centralized quarantine to "go home"
Pingyao is one of the birthplaces of Shanxi merchants. The ticket number a hundred years ago allowed Pingyao to "connect the world" and establish a good relationship with Wuhan.
The Parade of the "Lord of the County" that often appears in the ancient city
The Shan-Shaan Guild Hall in Wuhan was completed 337 years ago. For more than 100 years thereafter, it was the center of activity for people from Shanxi and Shaanxi.
More than 200 years ago, Pingyao Rishengchang ticket number Hankou semicolon came into being in Hubei.
Overlooking the 2,700-year-old ancient city of Pingyao
More than 28 years ago, Liu Zhongying from Pingyao took 2,000 yuan to Wuhan to join her eldest brother, and began to sell socks at Wuhan railway stations and wharves.
The Colored Sculpture in Shuanglin Temple in Pingyao——The Statue of Wei Tuo
"Bring relatives and friends with friends" is the business model of Pingyao people holding a group to keep warm. This Spring Festival, there are nearly a hundred returnees from Wuhan who are related to Liu Zhongying alone.
With the increase in the number of infected people, a "epidemic prevention war" has started in this thousand-year-old city.
On January 23, the ancient city of Pingyao closed scenic spots and cultural tourism activities
As the epidemic broke out, medical staff in Shanxi took the initiative to ask for help, women with red-faced faces and passionate men went into battle, bid farewell to their parents, and left their children. They "walked against the wind" in the fog.
For thousands of miles in Jin and Hubei, rushing to aid does not mean the restoration of mountains and rivers.
On March 4, medical staff performed a comprehensive disinfection for those returning from the centralized isolation point.
During the period, Shanxi sent a total of 13 batches of medical teams to support Hubei, and 1,516 medical staff were on the frontline of Hubei to fight the epidemic.
The first batch of medical staff to support Wuhan set off
The spring was cold when I left home, and spring was already blooming when I returned.
When the hero returned, the people of Shanxi used the "water gate ceremony" at the airport to pick them up.
The first batch of medical staff in Shanxi to support Hubei returned
After the epidemic stabilized, Shanxi quickly entered the "recovery mode."
With the support of the local government and the traffic police department, Taiyuan Foxconn dispatched buses and vehicles to "point-to-point" to pick up workers.
From home to the factory, with escort and scientific prevention and control all the way, Foxconn's resumption of work has established confidence and courage inside and outside the industry.
Taiyuan Fuji Rehabilitation Works resumes production
On April 25th, students return to campus to start the review preparation for the new semester
Under the epidemic, Hubei enterprises are also in a hurry.
Wuhan Iron and Steel Group and Echeng Iron and Steel Company ask for help; Ezhou Power Plant and Hanchuan Power Plant are in a hurry!
In times of crisis, Shanxi coal enterprises once again "send charcoal in the snow" and show their responsibilities. State-owned coal enterprises acted urgently to ensure energy supply in the affected areas.
On March 25, the ancient city of Pingyao opened its doors to welcome guests.
On the day of opening the door to welcome guests, an intelligent epidemic prevention machine was placed at the gate of Pingyao Ancient City
Spring is bright and beautiful, and everything in the world is stretching its limbs to welcome the long-lost sunshine and rain.
After being closed for two months, the ancient city of Pingyao shakes off the dust and reopens its doors to welcome guests.
The city is still that city, and the streets and villages are still so peaceful. The difference is that the "reunion after a long absence" always makes people look forward to and let us learn to cherish it.
During the National Day Golden Week, the ancient city of Pingyao received more than 300,000 tourists.
Pingyao Beef Group fully resumed work and production
Shops in the ancient city of Pingyao are "cleaning their faces", ready to open their doors to welcome guests.
Under the Yungang Grottoes, the "Visit Shanxi·Read History" activity was launched here.
The Yellow River is romantic, the Great Wall is majestic, the ancient buildings are rich, and the Taihang vicissitudes of life, in this leaf-shaped mountains and rivers, every explorer can find a unique civilization code.
Yungang Grottoes, Datong, Shanxi
In the early autumn, Shanxi Pingyao International Photography Exhibition and Pingyao International Film Exhibition came as scheduled.
After the epidemic, the ancient city ushered in batches of check-in, enthusiasts, and addicts.
Participate in it, or wander around, or immerse yourself in the experience, there is always a time that can touch your heartstrings.
In 2021, filmmakers from all over the world will gather at the Pingyao Cinema Palace
The annual Pingyao International Sculpture Festival
The opening of Taiyuan's east-west mountain tourist highway has injected new commentary into this energy city.
The private digging in the past and the fragmentation of the mountain in the past are attracting social capital to join the process of ecological restoration, "turning into a rear garden of the citizens" and "urban green barrier".
Taiyuan Xishan Tourist Highway
For this province "famous for coal", the outside world often "blinds its eyes" with coal.
At the Yaocheng (Taiyuan) International General Aviation Flight Conference in China, aviation industry exhibitors and flight performance teams from the United States, Slovenia, Germany and other countries made their appearance. The inland province of Shanxi strives to create a pattern of "Zhuhai in the south and Yaocheng in the north".
At the Yaocheng (Taiyuan) International General Aviation Flight Conference in China, aviation industry exhibitors and flight performance teams from the United States, Slovenia, Germany, Latvia and other countries made their appearance.
This year, the star product "Hand Ripped Steel" of the old state-owned enterprise "Taigang" attracted many fans.
For a time, the 0.02 mm thick "hand ripped steel" became the pride of the nation, and TISCO became the only company in the world that could mass produce wide ultra-thin stainless steel precision strips.
TISCO's "Hand Ripped Steel" was born
In the "post-epidemic era", the Taiyuan Marathon started again.
Online race + offline full-course classic race + offline half-course mass race, making Taima also become the first double-gold marathon in China in the "post-epidemic era" that retains the original track to hold an offline race.
Over the past ten years, "Tai Ma" has become a vivid portrayal of the transformation and upgrading of this resource city.
The Taiyuan Marathon became the first double-gold marathon in China in the "post-epidemic era" to retain the original track and hold an offline race
The mountains and rivers are also areas with high incidence of poverty.
Among the 14 contiguous poverty-stricken areas in China, there are Taihang and Luliang in Shanxi.
Now, all 58 impoverished counties in Shanxi have been lifted out of poverty.
Songjiagou, Kelan County, Shanxi Province, restored to its former prosperity
The hardworking and tough Shanxi people want their way out of the sky and vitality to the earth.
In Datong, Shanxi, it is commonly known as the "Forget Worry Grass" of yellow flowers, which is also called the "Three Delicacies of Vegetarian Food" along with mushrooms and fungus.
The local planting of yellow flowers has a history of more than 600 years and is one of the four major producing areas in China. Today, this traditional crop has been turned into a tool for poverty alleviation, and it has truly made the poor "forget about their worries".
The "little yellow flowers" grown in Datong have now become a big industry and a local "poverty alleviation tool"
Photovoltaic poverty alleviation power station in Tianzhen County, Datong City, Shanxi Province.
With the help of abundant solar energy resources, the local area vigorously promotes photovoltaic poverty alleviation and helps the poor increase their income
In the vast countryside, the local people set their sights on the green waters and green mountains.
Forsythia, mulberry, jujube, and sea buckthorn planted by ancestors are all made into "Shanxi medicinal tea".
The efficacy of medicine and the taste of tea add new buds to the Chinese tea system.
Entering the end of the year, Shanxi started the "dumpling" mode.
In the Ming Dynasty, the ancient county town of Taiyuan opened a "light show", announcing that it would open soon.
Founded in 1375, there are 79 cultural relics in the city. In 2011, it was listed as a national historic district in China.
After nine years of restoration, another cultural landscape has been added to the tourist map of Shanxi, a major cultural relic province.
The Taijiao high-speed rail was opened, and the barriers between Taiyuan, Zhengzhou and Guanshan no longer exist.
As an important part of the Hunan Passage of my country's "Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal" high-speed railway network, the Taijiao High-speed Railway has made the two provinces of Shanxi and Henan "close to the end of the world", and "the good scenery of Shanxi" has been integrated into the Central Plains, adding another weapon.
The Zheng-Tai high-speed rail opened, Taiyuan, Zhengzhou, and Guanshan barriers were no longer blocked.
Taiyuan Metro opened. As a latecomer, Taiyuan Metro Line 2 integrates many black technologies such as unmanned driving, cloud computing, face-sweeping and riding, and provides a model for subsequent line construction and operation.
Taiyuan Metro Line 2 opened, this is the first subway opened in Shanxi Province
Looking forward to 2021,
In the warm spring season,
There must be a beautiful day.
When the mountain flowers are blooming, you and I agreed in Pingyao to board the city wall and look into the distance.
At that time, I invite you to come to Shanxi again,
Standing under the big Buddha in Yungang Grottoes,
Pay homage to the royal style of the Northern Wei Dynasty,
Recall the courage and tolerance of the ancestors in the "reform of moving the capital".
Guangwu Ming Great Wall
Walk a section of the Ming and Qing Great Wall winding outside Yanmen Pass,
Stroke the mottled wall tiles,
Looking at the castles and beacons between heaven and earth,
Think about the historical evolution of "from a golden horse to a plow."
Climb to Yanmenguan City and appreciate the loyalty inherited from Zhao Guo Li Mu, Han Dynasty flying general Li Guang, and Northern Song Dynasty Yang family
Climb to Yanmen Pass,
Experience from Zhao Guo Li Mu, Han Dynasty flying general Li Guang,
The loyalty and courage inherited from the Yang family in the Northern Song Dynasty,
Take a look at the vicissitudes of the "Yanmenguan Wilderness House" in the past,
This wall has been baptized by blood and fire,
This way, we have witnessed the entrepreneurial history of our ancestors.
The earth warms up in spring, Shanxi starts a year of spring planting
Go to Youyu County, "Scattered Oasis",
See "From the barren land with yellow sand to the sky,
The scenery changes in different seasons",
70 years of relay planting, 70 years of salaries,
The forest greening rate here has increased from less than 0.3% to 55%,
The struggle in this bitter cold land on the edge of the Mu Us Desert,
It reflects the truth that "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains".
Huata Village, Taiyuan, Shanxi, aerial photography "Tang Feng Jin Yun" theme rice field painting
Walk into Taiyuan, a city with more than 2500 years of history,
There is the royal garden "Jinci",
There is the Longquan Temple where the "five coffins" of the Tang Dynasty were unearthed,
There is the cemetery of Zhao Qing in the Spring and Autumn Period with heavy bronzes unearthed,
It is also the hometown of "Oriental Sherlock Holmes" Di Renjie,
Now, another Taiyuan city in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been restored.
Bronze Hall of Xiantong Temple, Mount Wutai
For two thousand years, in this city,
A handful of loess is history;
Holding a handful of wind and sand is the past.
Shigao Mountain, Lingshi County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province
Climb a section of Taihang Mountain,
Watching Cao Cao exclaimed, "Go north to Taihang Mountain,
The high mountains and ridges,
How to become the magnificent scenery of "High Gorge Out of Pinghu";
Standing on the Taihang, overlooking the Great Central Plains,
In the midsummer season, the mountains and the mountains suddenly become "two worlds",
"Kangyang Shanxi" is ready to come out.
Hukou Waterfall, Shanxi
At Hukou Waterfall,
Holding a handful of Yellow River water,
Feel the national blood melted into the bones.
In Shanxi,
The Yellow River has the beauty of "Lao Niu Bay",
There is also the mystery of "Qiankun Bay";
There is the majesty of "a pot of yellow river for thousands of miles",
There is also "every day by the mountain,
"The Yellow River flows into the sea".
Laoniu Bay, Pianguan Pass, Xinzhou, Shanxi, is the place where the Yellow River and the Great Wall "shook hands"
Walking on the land of southern Shanxi,
From the humanistic light of Yao, Shun and Yu,
To the "Jin State Museum" that hosts the cemetery of Jin Marquis for more than ten generations,
Then to the spiritual home of the global Chinese-the big locust tree in Hongdong;
The big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi, is the hometown of global Chinese
Masterpieces sung from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
The Qiufeng Tower derived from "Autumn Wind Ci",
Go to the "Sima Wen Gong Temple" dedicated to famous figures and ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty;
From Guan Gong’s hometown-Jiezhou Guandi Temple to
Shengtang Ferry-Yongji Pujin Ferry.
Guandi Temple, Jiezhou, Shanxi
In this important birthplace of Chinese civilization,
Hundreds of "national security" or hiding in,
Ordinary alleys are "washed out of prosperity",
Or live in the bustling downtown "remembering the past".
Until I approached her and understood her,
You will feel "disrespectful" besides the surprise.
In 2020, despite the high winds and high waves, the mountains and rivers are unharmed!
2021, I am waiting for you in Shanxi!
Author: Zhou Wei