"Warm Messenger" on Western Sichuan Ice and Snow Mail Road
Our reporter Yuan Bo, Gao Boyang, Yang Jin
In December, on the Western Sichuan Plateau, the sky was freezing and the lowest temperature was more than ten degrees Celsius below zero. The 37-year-old China Post Zoige County Post Office rural courier Haro seized the opportunity to send mail to the villagers in the snow.
This "post-80s" Tibetan man, who is cordially called the "grassland messenger" by the masses, is handsome, resolute, and slightly shy, and his wrinkles on his face look more vicissitudes of life than his peers.
In the past 14 years, he has traveled more than 400,000 kilometers by himself and a car, which is equivalent to more than 7 times around the earth along the equator.
In the 13 townships of Zoige County, except Tangke Town, which is handed over by the main mail car passing by, the remaining 12 townships are strung together by 3 rural mail roads with an average elevation of about 3,500 meters, with a round trip of 1,080 kilometers.
The most difficult and dangerous postal route in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province is covered with the relics of the Long March of the Red Army and is called the "Long March Post Road."
For more than 80 years, the Long March spirit has been passed on from generation to generation in this red hot land.
"Warm Messenger"
Zoige County is located on the northeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, northwest of Sichuan Province, with a county area of more than 10,000 square kilometers and a population of just over 80,000 people, with a population density of less than 8 people per square kilometer.
"It is destined to embark on the postal route." Ha Nong seized the opportunity very plainly and didn't talk much.
Since childhood, his father, who was wearing a green uniform, carrying a green postal bag, and carrying a bicycle over the mountains, is the most prestigious and remarkable person in his mind.
He said that when he was a child, it was "selfish" to pester his father to send him mail, because the fellow villagers were very enthusiastic, and he occasionally got a candy.
Harong seized the opportunity to still remember that one winter night when he was 10 years old, his father sent an email and broke a broken bone, but he still got up early the next day and went out: "The email has to be sent to the village, so you can't delay work." The mother looked at his father's back and could only wipe it away secretly. tears.
Even in the cold winter, sitting on the beam of the bicycle, he could notice his father's sweat falling down.
Those drops of sweat watered the "green seeds" in Harongduoji's heart.
In 2007, the 23-year-old Harong seized the opportunity to become a local postman, and since then set foot on the "Long March Post Road" on the snow-covered plateau.
The young township postman felt the hardship for the first time: in summer, mudslides and landslides, hungry to swallow a few mouthfuls of tsampa noodles; the lowest temperature in winter is about minus 30 degrees Celsius, the road is snowy and icy, driving on the cliff, even if the snow chains are hung. , There are also cars sliding down the roadbed...
A distress makes Ha seize the opportunity forever unforgettable.
In March 2018, Harong seized the plane and encountered a blizzard on the mail road. The mail car slid into a pit beside the road and the oil pipe leaked.
"There is mail from a township on the car to be sent. I can't report for emergency without a mobile phone signal. I went under the car for more than a dozen times for maintenance." Harun Duoji said that the last time he got under the car, his clothes and trousers were frozen by the road. It can only be slowly rubbed out from the bottom of the car, and the clothes and pants are also left under the car.
He who was curled up in the cab was tired, cold and hungry, and fell asleep...
Liu Xufeng, general manager of the Zoige County Post Office, who had been looking for him along the way, recalled: "His face was black and oily, as if he had been frozen, and he almost became a ration for wolves."
After Double 11 in 2018, Harong seized the opportunity and Liu Xufeng sent mail in Blizzard.
When passing through a section of the uphill road in Tangke Town, a large truck that was climbing in front of it slipped. The Harong seizure machine did not abandon the vehicle and escaped, but immediately reversed. "I subconsciously wanted to keep the mail truck at the time." He said, the truck was sideways. When parked on the road, it is only about 50 cm away from the mail truck.
It was dark when I arrived at the last stop in Maixi Township, and when I was about to return, a light suddenly lit up from the back of the car. It turned out that it was the people who used torches and mobile phone torches to help illuminate the road ahead.
"Dozens of light spots are behind me. I looked through the rearview mirror and felt that those light spots were like stars in the night sky." Harun seized the plane and said that he would never forget the scene.
At that time, Liu Xufeng, who was sitting in the co-pilot, was silent for a long time before speaking: "I finally know why you are working so hard and why the people like you so much."
In the vast snowy sky, except for the eagle in the sky, it is the mail truck on the ground.
Luo Zhou, the mayor of Brazil town, said: “Farmers and herdsmen often say that seeing the mail truck and seeing the plane seized by Harbin is like seeing their relatives.”
In the wind and snow and the severe cold, Harong seized the opportunity to carry out his own "Long March" on the rural postal road. In the past 14 years, this postal route has not been interrupted for a single day.
Harong seized the plane and drove 3 mail vans, with a distance of more than 400,000 kilometers, and delivered more than 4.5 million pieces of mail, and none of them was lost.
Harong's persistence in seizing the opportunity cannot be separated from the silent contribution of his family.
After 19 years of marriage, he ran on the post for 14 years and only spent 3 New Year's Eve at home.
He was on the post when his three daughters were born.
There are 2 elderly people, 6 mu of land, and 10 sheep. This family is supported by his wife, Ejiancuo.
"I was going to pass by my hometown, Zelong Village, and I honked the horn twice in the direction of the upper ridge. The first one told my family that I was back, and the second one told them that I was leaving again." Full of guilt.
The postal route is lonely, but the world where Harun seizes the opportunity is very rich.
Where there is someone to help, he is the waiter; where there is a traffic accident, he is the rescuer.
In the past 14 years, the dry food, medicines, and oxygen bags in his mail truck have warmed countless people during the crisis of raging snow.
"Brother Bringing Goods"
In recent years, with the improvement of transportation infrastructure, the "spring breeze" of online shopping has also "blowed" into the Ruoergai prairie. On the mail truck of Harun, there are more and more e-commerce packages from all over the country and agricultural special products out of the grassland. more.
"The parcels are mainly books, stationery, clothes, shoes, hats and other daily necessities." Ha Nong Duoji said that young adults in the countryside usually go out to work, and the elderly don't use their mobile phones to access the Internet, so he often helps place orders and also helps fellow villagers bring them. medicine.
Hamozeli, a villager in Zelong Village, Tiebu Town, said: “My son would have disappeared long ago without Hara seizing the opportunity to help bring medicine to treat tuberculosis.”
"Zoergai is high in the cold and lacks oxygen, and it snows for more than half a year of the year. Only the postal service delivers express parcels into the village. Although some remote postal services are losing money, the postal people have been sticking to it for the sake of the local people." Harun seized the opportunity. Said proudly.
Today, Ruoergai County arrives at townships 5 times a week, and 3 times a week to villages. Small warehouses in major towns are gradually built, and various intelligent facilities and equipment will be put into operation. The issue of the “last mile” of universal service is being effectively resolved.
Liao Tao, secretary of the party committee and general manager of the Sichuan branch of China Post Corporation, said that it is the mission of postal staff in the new era to continuously meet the new needs of the people for postal services.
"Nowadays, there are more and more abundant packages, such as guitars, cosmetics, pet food, etc., and each delivery basically has to be filled with a car, and sometimes it can't be finished." Haron Duoji said.
In the summer of 2019, Ha Nong seized the opportunity to hear a complaint from fellow Ma Yizu on the Xiangyou Road: “The wet fritillary that just came down the mountain is about 400 yuan a catty, and the couple can dig more than 1 catty a week. There is no such good thing. The sales channels can’t sell the price. The doll is still in school, so anxious."
In those days, the anxious look of the fellow villagers has always been in the mind of Ha Leng Ji. So many high-quality agricultural and animal husbandry products in my hometown, can I help them sell them on the Internet?
So he consciously paid attention to e-commerce.
In January 2020, Harong seized the opportunity to obtain a college degree in administrative management from the Open University of China through self-examination, and also bought books such as "Rural E-commerce" to study.
At the end of 2020, he established the "Harongduo Electrical and Mechanical Business Studio".
In March of this year, Harong seized the machine to start the first live broadcast, selling yak beef jerky, milk powder and local people’s sauerkraut, dried mushrooms, tartary buckwheat noodles, tsampa, sea buckthorn, Sydney paste and other products.
Recently, the reporter "watched" the third live broadcast of Harong seized the machine.
Sitting in the live broadcast room, he talked about the products of his hometown. "Our yak eats Chinese herbal medicine, lives in a scenic area, and drinks mineral water." The one and a half hour live broadcast attracted more than 30,000 viewers. , Selling more than 1,000 products.
"I hope that through the Internet, more and more high-quality agricultural and animal husbandry products in my hometown will be brought out of the mountains and into thousands of households." Harong Seoji is full of confidence.
"Red Inheritance" on the Long March Post Road
His father was a soldier, and Harong seized the opportunity to listen to the story of the Red Army's Long March and grew up with a heroic complex since he was a child.
What excites him is that there are many legends of heroes on the Long March Post Road.
Zoige County is the hardest and most tragic area among the three main forces of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Many Red Army soldiers sleep here.
Today, there are 28 revolutionary sites and relics such as the Battle of Baozuo, the site of the Brazilian Conference and more than 380 red cultural relics have been preserved in Zoige County.
"The country postal route I ran was called the Long March Post Road. Stories such as "Seven Matches" and "Golden Fish Hook" took place on this road." Harong said.
The grasslands and pastures, forest sea villages, and marsh wetlands that he walked every day have the footprints of the Red Army.
In 2001, Harong seized the opportunity to submit an application for joining the party to the party organization.
"Joining the party is my ideal and my father's wish. My father always educates us that communists are people who serve the common people." Haro seized the opportunity to say that when he was a child, he once asked his father: "Why are you so tired to go to the next village? Hurry up?" Father smiled and replied, "The folks are still waiting for me."
In July 2003, Ha Nong seized the opportunity to formally become a Communist Party member. The "selfishness" of childhood has quietly become the original intention of a Communist Party member.
Ruoergai grassland has beautiful natural scenery and attracts many tourists.
Harong seized the plane and often guest speakers told tourists, folks on the postal route, and children after "00" about Zoige's Long March story.
To his gratification, the eldest daughter Renqing Zhuoma submitted an application for party membership at the school not long ago.
There are many friends who run transportation in Harong Seizure, earning tens of thousands of dollars a month.
Many people advise him to change to a more profitable and easier job if he has good driving skills and familiar road conditions.
Harong seized the opportunity and refused: "There are party newspapers and confidential documents on the mail truck, as well as industrial products sent to the countryside and agricultural products sent to the city. If I can do something for the villagers, my life will be more valuable. ."
Harong, who has won honors such as "National Postal Industry Model Worker" and "National May 1st Labor Medal", is still as tough and fortitude as Gesanghua, and perseveres on the plateau in the wind and snow.
From the perspective of Harong seizing the opportunity, this Long March post route once led the revolutionary ancestors to victory, and now carries the yearning of the people in their hometown for a better life.
"Think of the revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed here. No matter how great the difficulty is, I can't stop me from walking along the Long March Post Road."