A reporter from the Beijing News visited the hometown of "Dr. Cold" Huang Guoping. Since 2017, Yilong has invested a total of 3.65 billion yuan in education.
The "Dr. Hanmen" flying out of the mountain and the education of Xiaocheng Yilong
The new campus of Yilong Middle School.
This edition of photography/The Beijing News trainee reporter Guo Yimeng
In Juguang Village, Yilong County, Huang Guoping's former home (left) and his uncle Huang Shijun's current home.
At the southern end of Yilong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, a small village named Juguang was unexpectedly "ignited" by a doctoral thesis thanks to Huang Guoping, a doctor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"I have traveled a long way and suffered a lot of hardship before I delivered this doctoral dissertation to you. Twenty-two years of studying, the journey has been ups and downs, and many are not easy."
The script of life, Huang Guoping got the "difficult" mode from the beginning.
It took him 22 years to get out of the mountain col and walked out a way for poor students to change their destiny by knowledge. "This way, the belief is very simple, read the book, and then go out to live a life in vain."
While Huang Guoping waded through the muddy road to study, his hometowns of Yilong County, Yongguang Town, and Juguang Village did not stop in the pace of education and change.
According to a cadre of the Yilong County Party Committee, since 2017, Yilong has invested a total of 3.65 billion yuan in education. Nowadays, there are kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools almost every one kilometer.
The vice principal of Yilong Middle School, Huang Guoping's alma mater, hopes that "the children will fly out of the mountains through learning knowledge and make greater contributions throughout the motherland."
Homework under the kerosene lamp is "the happiest thing"
Starting from Yongguang Town, Yilong County, take a winding road about 10 kilometers around Panshan Road until you reach Juguang Village, where Huang Guoping’s hometown is.
The rainy season in Yilong began in early April, and Huang Guoping's old house was hidden in the clouds at the foot of Houping Mountain.
In recent years, the mountain road leading to the old house of Huang’s family has built a "convenient road", and villagers can climb up the stairs, and the steepest place can have a slope of 45°.
Twenty years ago, this was just a crooked mud road. Huang Guoping and Fa Xiao Huangjun walked from here to Juguang Primary School, stepping in the mud with their bare feet, step by step.
Huang Jun remembered that when the soles of his feet slipped in the rain, he fell into a squat.
Huang Guoping described, "It's rainy and wet in class, maybe it's still mud behind the buttocks."
Huang Guoping’s family was poor. In the memory of his uncle Huang Shijun, his nephew went to school later than the other children. He didn't go to elementary school until he was seven or eight.
At that time, one of the sources of income was his family’s three acres of crops, “planting some corn, sweet potatoes, and rape.” In addition, Huang Guoping’s father did small jobs for others when he had time. “In the 1990s, he did small jobs. You can only earn 1 yuan a day".
At the age of 17, Huang Guoping lost his father. The pillar of the family died in a car accident while working outside.
In the same year, her mother-in-law died of illness, and there was only a thin coffin when she was buried.
And his mother left home when he was 12 years old.
Catching the rice field eel was one of Huang Guoping's main sources of income before high school.
At ninety o'clock in the summer in the evening, the children of the village went to the paddy field to catch the eel.
The two bamboos are strung together with nails as a tool, and they are clamped into the eel and slammed into the back basket behind them.
The childlikeness of other children is Huang Guoping's way of making a living.
In the impression of villager Huang Zhong, when he was a child, there were frequent power outages at home, and kerosene lamps were always kept in every house in the village.
Huang Guoping’s family had no electric lights at the time. “He lit a kerosene lamp every day to do his homework.” Being able to sit under a dim kerosene lamp to do homework or read a book can be regarded as Huang Guoping’s “happiest thing”.
A light like a bean illuminates Huang Guoping's way of studying.
There are four walls for family members, and the most precious thing on the wall is the certificates of merit.
"Poverty can make people lose hope," Huang Guoping wrote in his thanks. "If it weren't for the ability to receive bonuses from the podium after exams, and to post a wall of awards to satisfy the final vanity, I might have given up long ago."
From Juguang Elementary School to Yilong County Middle School, to Southwest University in Chongqing, and to the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Huang Guoping realized his desire to "get out of the mountains" step by step.
When he went to Beijing to study, Huang Guoping took away the certificates that covered a wall. Huang Shijun still remembered that those certificates were "rolled up in a big volume."
As for the textbooks from childhood to adulthood, Huang Guoping specially packed them in a wooden box and kept them at his uncle's house.
Computer is the career and hope of a lifetime
In 2004, Huang Guoping was promoted to Yilong County Middle School.
At that time, the road from the village to the old Yilong county was very long. There was only one bus every day, and the one-way trip was nearly three hours.
After hearing about Huang Guoping's situation, Yilong Middle School exempted him from tuition and fees for three years and took the lead in finding a caring person to support him.
Hu Yuanming, the head of the canteen at the time, took over the baton of love and was responsible for Huang Guoping's living expenses during high school.
In order to save 15 yuan a trip, Huang Guoping rarely returns to Juguang Village, and Hu Yuanming's home has become Huang Guoping's foothold during weekends, winter and summer vacations.
When he saw the essay acknowledgment, Rao Bin faintly guessed the protagonist in the article.
As Huang Guoping's head teacher in high school, Rao Bin read the article over and over, feeling touched in his heart, "wrote it truly."
Rao Bin still remembers Huang Guoping's talent for computers in high school.
"At that time, we cooperated with Chengdu No. 7 Middle School in live teaching. Huang Guoping was in the pilot class. He basically maintained the computers in the class. He was the only one who repaired and repaired them. Everyone knows that he can repair them even if they are broken."
In 2003, in order to let children have the opportunity to enjoy the best quality resources, Yilong Middle School introduced live teaching of Chengdu No. 7 Middle School online, connecting to the courses of Chengdu No. 7 Middle School every day, and teachers from Yilong Middle School would provide guidance after class. .
Huang Guoping was assigned to a live broadcast class after enrolling.
"Of the 32 students, 22 went to undergraduates, and 9 of them had a copy." Vice President Zhou Leqiang remembered this number very clearly.
"Before the pilot, Huang Guoping's class results were not outstanding. According to previous experience, it is not easy to have a classmate go to one book." According to reports, the school has promoted the live broadcast class and continues to this day. Now there are two live broadcasts for each grade. class.
For the first college entrance examination, Huang Guoping was admitted to an undergraduate normal school in the province. “We felt that his family conditions were not very good at the time. He was very easy to find a job after graduating from normal school, but he felt that he was different from his aspirational major.” Rao Bin recalled.
Huang Guoping’s love for computers dates back to his junior high school years. Huang Xiaolin, a villager in Juguang Village, described the relationship between Huang Guoping and his computer enlightenment teacher as a "brother."
"When he was in junior high school, Teacher Qiu took him to places with good conditions, taught him to repair computers, and took him to participate in computer training classes with other children with good conditions." In his thesis thanks, Huang Guoping also mentioned this. A teacher called him "a computer teacher like a elder brother."
After resuming one year at Nanshan Middle School in Mianyang, Huang Guoping was admitted to Southwest University.
Huang Shijun remembers his nephew who he persuaded that he wanted to repeat the study again, "In case you slack in your mind, I am afraid that it will be more difficult for you to take exams later."
Huang Guoping, who listened to his uncle’s persuasion, started his college career.
"Computer has finally become my life's career and hope, and gastric ulcers and gastric bleeding will finally say goodbye to me." At Southwest University, he won a national scholarship for two years, participated in the 9 Mathematical Modeling Competition, and won the American Mathematical Institute. The first prize of the model competition...
"I hope the children will fly out of the mountains through learning knowledge"
A villager who grew up in another village in Yilong County told the Beijing News that at that time, most elementary and junior high schools in the rural areas of the township had a "busy farming holiday." They do housework at home and cook food for the adults in the field.
Usually, after finishing homework, I also help my family go to the hillside to graze hogweed and wrap them to feed the pigs and cows.
And what impressed him most was the playground of the rural elementary school.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the more difficult elementary school playground was full of mud, and it was very slippery on rainy days.
The children knocked the abandoned rubble on the street back into small particles, and the burnt cinder at home was also scattered on the mud floor and spread it out. Everyone worked together to "face up" the playground with a shovel, and "lay it up like this." It doesn’t accumulate water, and it’s soft. This is the only way to do it when you are poor."
While Huang Guoping's study path was extended, his hometowns of Yilong County, Yongguang Town, and Juguang Village did not stop them.
"Before 2015, 260,000 of the county's millions of people had difficulties with water." According to a cadre of Yilong County Party Committee, this state-level poor county did not get rid of poverty until 2018.
The word "education" is often used by cadres in Yilong County.
"Yilong suffered a deficit in education before, which caused a large number of brain drains. When the new county was established, it was re-planned on a piece of white paper." According to a cadre of Yilong County Party Committee, since 2017, Yilong has accumulated a total of 3.65 billion yuan is invested in education, and there will be a kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school almost every one kilometer.
At the same time, the teachers of Yilong Middle School no longer have to seek help from caring people to subsidize poor students. Supportive measures such as the National Scholarship, the "Xiyu Scholarship" and the "Zihui Program" established by Yilong Middle School alumni can help poor students like Huang Guoping. The road to study is smoother.
The new campus of Yilong Middle School in the new county is nearly three times the size of the old campus, and its area is comparable to that of a university. Last September, it welcomed the first batch of nearly 5,500 students from all directions.
In the center of the new campus of Yilong Middle School is a group of flying pigeons. Vice principal Zhou Leqiang understood this as a blessing, "I hope that the children will fly out of the mountains through learning knowledge and make greater contributions throughout the motherland."
"I only wish that I am over half a hundred years old and I will still be a teenager when I return." Just like Huang Guoping's simple ideals, "I live up to the hardships I have experienced in this life, and if I can do something to make others' lives better, I will earn money in this life. "
New Beijing News trainee reporter Guo Yimeng