China News Service, Chongzuo, March 7 (Wang Weichen) "Today our border patrol mission is about 3 kilometers and we have to pass six boundary markers. We must pay attention to observation during the border patrol..." On the morning of March 7, Chongzuo, Guangxi Mo Xianfen, director of the National Defense Mobilization Office of Zuopingxiang City, explained the day's border patrol tasks to the members of the Pingxiang Red Kapok Women's Border Guard Team at the border marker on the China-Vietnam border.

　　Pingxiang City is located on the border between China and Vietnam. The only Friendship Pass among China's nine famous passes that still performs customs clearance functions is located here.

Mo Xianfen introduced that the Red Kapok Women’s Border Guard Team was established in 2019. It is the first women’s border guard team among the eight border counties (cities, districts) in Guangxi. It is composed of 9 female leaders and cadres from the Pingxiang City National Defense Mobilization Office, accounting for 10% of the total. 70% of the total number of people.

　　After briefly explaining the mission, Mo Xianfen led the team members to start patrolling the border.

The mountain road is rugged and the slope is steep. The pedestrian patrol road, which is not wide, is occupied by fallen wild plants.

Mo Xianfen said that in recent years, with the country's investment in border areas, border patrol roads have basically been hardened. If it had been a few years earlier, the team members could only walk on dirt roads and climb rocks. A border patrol would take up to several days. days time.

　　Thanks to the infrastructure construction in border areas, on some border patrol routes, team members do not need to bring their own dry food, and lunch can be delivered by vehicle to a location relatively close to the highway.

　　In his spare time, Zhao Xianhua, deputy director of the Pingxiang City National Defense Mobilization Office, shared his border patrol experience with young team members.

Zhao Xianhua said that in the past, the patrol roads were muddy and thick wild plants covered some natural potholes, and she once rolled into the pits.

On some of the patrol routes, you need to climb over many rocks as high as one person.

The picture shows members of the Pingxiang Red Kapok Women’s Border Guard Team having lunch near the boundary marker.

Photo by Wang Weichen

　　Zhao Xianhua told reporters that her family hopes to see a sunny and positive self. The most valuable asset that patrolling has brought to her is to make herself stronger so that she can set a good example for her children.

　　The reporter noticed that there were many new faces in the team.

Zeng Ningshan, a member of the border guard team who was born in 1999, was influenced by her family and took the initiative to choose a border guard job in her hometown.

She told reporters that growing up in a border area made her understand the importance of border protection better.

"I feel very proud to do this job. Maintaining the border for the motherland is a very proud thing." (End)