(New Year's visit to the grassroots level) "Hit workers" on the spot
China News Service, Changsha, February 7 (Reporter Fu Yu) As the Chinese New Year approaches, He Yitong (pseudonym), an 8-year-old left-behind child in Hunan, has experienced several ups and downs: first he counted down the days of reunion with his parents, and then he was disappointed to learn that they were going to work. New Year in Zhejiang.
The experience in school these days has made her smile more.
He Yitong is a student at Bamaoxi Primary School in Sangzhi County, Zhangjiajie, Hunan.
"With teachers and classmates by your side, you won't feel lonely." When he misses his parents, He Yitong will video chat with his mother with the help of his teacher Zhu Chunmei to share his joy.
Sensible, she also repeatedly comforted her mother "don't worry about yourself".
There are 219 students in Bamaoxi Primary School, of which 150 are left-behind children.
"Most of them can only get along with their parents for a short time during the Spring Festival every year." Zhu Chunmei introduced that after learning that some parents of students would spend the Chinese New Year outside, she and another teacher responded to the school's initiative and stayed at school to become the children's "temporary parents". , Take them to do homework and play games.
Zhou Lihui, a student from Changsha Civil Administration Vocational College, came to home to help left-behind children with homework.
Photo by Liu Dan
"Come and taste today's food, it's all made according to your taste." Near noon, the community volunteers who came to deliver the meal knocked on the door of the 78-year-old left-behind old man Lian Gang in Nanzhou Town, Nan County, Yiyang.
Lian Gang's children and grandchildren are working in other places, and usually stay at home with their old mother.
After learning that family members could not return to their hometowns to reunite with the seniors during the Spring Festival this year, the community decided to provide them with caring food delivery services every day from January 29 to the Lantern Festival.
Working hard all year round and not being able to serve the elderly or accompany children is the "heart disease" of many migrant workers in China.
Under the local New Year initiative, the "one old and one small" who stayed at home has become a real concern of "hitting workers", and it is also a concern of Chinese governments at all levels and many parties.
In the view of Shi Jin, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Nanxian County Party Committee, after all these worries of migrant workers, the local New Year initiative can be better implemented.
A few days ago, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued the “Notice on Strengthening the Care and Services for Left-behind Children in Rural Areas during the Winter Holidays and Spring Festival for Parents”, proposing to take multiple measures to ensure that parents’ in-situ rural left-behind children are properly taken care of.
Li Banghua, deputy director of the Department of Elderly Care Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, previously stated publicly that the civil affairs department will work with all parties to strengthen classified assistance for left-behind, empty-nest and other elderly people with special difficulties.
The reporter searched public reports and found that with the intervention of various forces, the virtues of mutual assistance are being passed on across China: Changde, Hunan sent warm New Year gifts to left-behind children, and opened a "worry-free mailbox" to give them emotional care; Hailun City, Heilongjiang University students volunteered The cadres of Huaining Village, Anhui Province set up a neighboring mutual aid group, and the households are responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the left-behind elderly...
The "big rear" is stable, and the front can be at ease.
Statistics from the Hunan Employment Service Center show that there are currently more than 10 million migrant workers in Hunan. Compared with previous years, the tide of returning to Hunan has not appeared in this large labor exporting province.
"The fight against the'epidemic' has reminded us that it is imperative to speed up the establishment of a long-term mechanism for caring for the left-behind elderly and children." Cao Puhua, party secretary and dean of the Hunan Academy of Social Sciences, said that under the local New Year initiative, local governments will adopt Effective measures While warming the left-behind elderly and children with heart and affection, it is recommended to take this as an opportunity to explore long-term mechanisms for caring for the group by increasing grassroots investment, building and improving measures such as "left-behind children, homes for the elderly".
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