The graduation thesis of more than 25,000 words, the thanks for the thesis of more than 6,000 words, and 65 people were named and thanked. Su Zhengmin, a graduate of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, majoring in civil and commercial law, described his bumpy study path: from a sheep herder to a college student, I finally realized my dream - study hard, get out of the mountains, and change my destiny.
On June 16th, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law held the 2022 graduation ceremony. As the representative of the graduates, Su Zhengmin, a Yi nationality boy from Liangshan, Sichuan, thanked the school for his training and education, and said that he was about to return to his hometown Liangshan to support teaching, always remembering "" Go where the people need it."
According to the Yangtze River Daily, Su Zhengmin reviewed his "up and down" but "full of light and hope" in his graduation thesis "On the Government Responsibility of Volunteer Service and Its Legislative Regulations".
In the acknowledgment section of the thesis, Su Zhengmin recounted that he was born in a small mountain village in Shamarada Township, Xide County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. "I have been malnourished since I was born, and the elderly in the village often persuade my parents to give up my sister and me. I stumbled and survived by the mountain spring and wild fruit."
Su Zhengmin recalled that although the family was very poor, his father still chose to smash the pot and sell the iron to send all three children to school.
The road in the mountains looks very close, but it often takes a long way. It is common to walk two or three hours on the mountain road to reach the school.
It is said that it is a school, but it is actually just a few mud-tiled houses built by loess. It often rains heavily outside the house and lightly rains in the classroom.
"My mother told me that if you follow the winding path, you will walk out of the mountain. In the faraway city of Beijing, there is a majestic Tiananmen Square, and the flag-raising ceremony on the square is very spectacular. I told my mother, I want to see more, I am more I want to see it." "I Want To See" is the first text he learned to recite, and it is also the one that impressed him the most.
Since then, "getting out of the mountains and wanting to see it" has become the belief of his struggle.
Because of the country's "Western Development" policy, this "sleeping" mountain has welcomed many teachers from big cities.
When he was in elementary school, what impressed him most was the group of young volunteer teachers.
Facing such a group of "little kids" with dark skin, ragged clothes, sweat all over their bodies, snot on their faces, and can't even speak Chinese, they taught them over and over again with patience.
"I don't understand how these group of volunteer teachers from big cities persevered in a place so hard that even local teachers couldn't stay. The teachers illuminated my narrow and rugged path with a little bit of fluorescence. "Su Zhengmin wrote.
After graduating from primary school, he was fortunate enough to enter one of the top middle schools in Liangshan Prefecture to continue his studies.
However, his poor Chinese, tattered clothes smelling of soot from the fire, and his short height have become the targets of ridicule.
The classmates around are basically from the city, not only from good families, but also enviable academic performance.
He took the countdown on the first test.
He wondered if he should persevere, "Young and sensitive heart, how can I save you?"
During the winter vacation of the first year of junior high school, he packed his bags, asked his parents to drop out of school, and planned to go out to work with his brothers and sisters in the village.
Just like in the movie, his father gave him a loud slap in the face, and his mother covered her face and cried bitterly, "Why do you and I work hard day and night for Ada (dad)? I clean the streets during the day and work part-time farming at night. "Why do you, Ada, burn bricks in a brick factory during the day and farm at night? Don't you just think that the three of you can study hard, change your destiny, and stop suffering from our lack of culture!"
He will never forget his father's scolding and his mother's cry, and they pulled him back to school.
Su Zhengmin worked hard to study, and bought all the study materials with the living expenses he saved by living frugally.
After self-study every night, he secretly turned on the flashlight, covered it with a quilt, and began to study these additional study materials while lying on the bed.
His hard work paid off, and his academic performance and Chinese proficiency improved by leaps and bounds.
Just when he thought he could get out of the mountains and change his destiny by studying hard, in 2013, 15-year-old Su Zhengmin encountered the first big storm in his life.
The father worked day and night for the education of his three children, and eventually became ill from overwork and suffered from various diseases, from heart disease to liver cysts and pulmonary edema, and finally died unfortunately.
Medical expenses also made this already precarious family worse, and owed hundreds of thousands of yuan in foreign debts for medical treatment.
Unable to bear to see their mother working hard, both Su Zhengmin and his elder sister chose to drop out of school without agreement, wanting to leave school opportunities to their younger sister.
My sister went to Guangdong, and he chose the yellow land that his ancestors had cultivated for generations.
At that time, he faced the loess and turned his back to the sky all day, "Is it like this all my life?" he repeatedly asked himself.
until someone shows up.
"(She) shone into my gloomy life like a beam of light." It was Zhang Junlan, a reporter from Tianjin Daily who changed Su Zhengmin's fate. She has a warm name - "Mother Zhang of Liangshan Children".
"It was her thin body that helped tens of thousands of poor students in Liangshan like me to return to school in the past twenty years," Su Zhengmin wrote.
According to public information, in August 1997, Tianjin Daily reporter Zhang Junlan interviewed the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, engaged in news poverty alleviation.
Witnessing the heartbreaking poverty, I vowed to spend my whole life working hard to get rid of poverty in Liangshan.
In the 23 years since then, she has walked into Liangshan 33 times to engage in student aid and poverty alleviation: entrusted by all sectors of society to build three Hope Primary Schools, set up scholarships and grants in seven colleges and universities, and worked together with patriotic philanthropists to create six More than a dozen orphan classes and girls' classes named after "Fuhui Star" also carry out "one-to-one" case study assistance. Tens of thousands of poor students and orphans have been continuously funded for more than 20 years. Engaged in disaster relief, emergency case assistance, etc.
On the road to Liangshan, Zhang Junlan went from 35 to 58 years old, dedicating her golden years to the Yi compatriots in the poverty-stricken areas of the southwest border.
Hubei Daily reported that when Su Zhengmin was most confused after dropping out of school, someone reached out and held him.
The school teachers and the village party secretary visited the home many times to persuade Su Zhengmin to continue his studies and help the Su family apply for the minimum living allowance.
Zhang Junlan, who has been engaged in public welfare funding in Liangshan for many years, also connected him with a targeted funding of 2,000 yuan per year, and he finally had the opportunity to return to school.
After returning to school, the head teacher talked to him and said, "Asu, now so many well-meaning people from the party, the country, and the society care about you so much and have given you so much help. The teacher hopes that one day you can also learn to turn your hands towards you. Go down and help others." This sentence affected his life.
Sitting at his desk again, Su Zhengmin studied hard. In 2017, he was admitted to Zhongnan University of Economics and Law through the national preparatory enrollment plan for contiguous poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities, becoming the first student in the village to be admitted to the "211" University.
My father couldn't see the day when he was admitted to university and walked out of the mountains.
With the expectations of the villagers and the earnest teachings of his mother, he walked out of Daliang Mountain and began to study again.
"The soma flowers in my hometown are blooming again, there are no father's heavy footprints on the hillside anymore, and there is only my mother who is sick with longing by the fire."
His mother was an ordinary sanitation worker.
Before, in his youthful and sensitive years, he was always ashamed to talk about his mother's work.
During the years of studying abroad, whenever he ate delicious food, he would suddenly feel sad and even cry, and he would always think of whether his mother in the distance had just solved his meal with a bowl of buckwheat and a potato in order to save money. .
"It was this 'unremarkable' sanitation worker who supported his family with a small broom in his hand, and raised three children by himself with a thin body." In Su Zhengmin's eyes, over the years, his mother has relied on honesty, kindness, Perseverance and gratitude teach them to grow and teach them to "be clean and conscientious".
After he was admitted to Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, he realized his childhood dream of "escape" from the mountains by studying.
From elementary school to middle school, he has traveled for many years. He wants to know: the mountain is still the mountain, and what is the university beyond?
"No matter what the future looks like, maybe I can find the answer here."
During his college career, he built up his confidence, really got rid of his inferiority complex, and became a confident and optimistic person.
In 2019, he launched the Liangshan Ayi (Children) Student Aid Program, calling on students to "save a dollar a day and drink two cups of milk tea less a month", and use the monthly donation to help the needy students in Liangshan.
Over the past few years, 180 teachers and students from all over the country have joined the program, and 65 poor students in Liangshan have been funded with a little bit of light.
During the Spring Festival of 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic was raging. Although he was not in Wuhan, he also wanted to do something for this heroic city, so he immediately signed up as an online volunteer of Shuangjian Community in Hongshan District. 249 households of Wuhan residents provide living needs statistics services, and make 60 to 70 calls every day.
"2021 is the historical moment of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The historic change from lack of food and clothing to comprehensive poverty alleviation and a well-off society, along the way, my family and I, it is in this great change Witnesses and beneficiaries." Su Zhengmin wrote.
This year, with everyone's support and help, he participated in the establishment of the Liangshan Prefecture Education Foundation Ayi Study Aid Special Fund to provide spiritual assistance to more Liangshan students and help them better get out of the mountains.
Approaching graduation, he chose to sign up to join the postgraduate teaching group and returned to his hometown, Daliangshan, to support teaching.
"I know that a person's strength is very small and may not change anything, but I believe that in the continuous struggle of our generations of Central South University youth, we will definitely be able to light up more Liangshan Ayi (Yi, 'child') the way of study.”
The Paper reporter Wu Yi