(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) China Times Review: Participated in the construction of the motherland for more than 100 years, Wu Liande has been

China News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, March 30th. Question: Wu Liande has been involved in the construction of the motherland for more than 100 years.

China News Agency reporter Chen Yue

Recently, the epidemic situation of new crown pneumonia in many countries around the world has increased, so some overseas Chinese have chosen to return to their home countries. Under the premise of complying with relevant regulations and safeguarding epidemic prevention, this is an understandable choice. However, some people have issued inappropriate comments on the overseas Chinese on the Internet, even biasedly saying that overseas Chinese "build your motherland, you are not there."

揆 With a hundred years of Chinese history, the phrase "building the motherland and you are absent" is not only ignorant but also wrong.

110 years ago, when China was also threatened by an epidemic, Wuliande, an overseas Chinese born in Penang, Malaysia, "retrograde" and returned home. Under his leadership, the epidemic that killed tens of thousands of people in the Northeast was successfully controlled within a short period of time, and Wu Liande was thus called the "pioneer of China's national defense epidemic."

Today's anti-epidemic weapon, masks, is actually inseparable from Wollend's contribution. The "Woollende mask" designed by him played a huge role in blocking the spread of the virus, and it was also the first medical mask in China to be reinvented to prevent the spread of disease.

The picture shows a bronze bust of Dr. Wu Liande standing in Penang. It was donated by Harbin Medical University in 2014 and has been greeted by hangers from time to time. Photo by Chen Yue of China News Agency

Today, a hundred years later, the 84-year-old Academician Zhong Nanshan was ordered in danger, rushed to the front line of fighting the new crown epidemic, and played a key role, which can be called "contemporary Wuliande". Little known is that Zhong Nanshan is also a family member of overseas Chinese. His parents are both returnees and have contributed to China's medical cause. As early as 2004, Zhong Nanshan was awarded the honorary title of "Top Ten Overseas Chinese" with his outstanding achievements in the fight against SARS.

Overseas, the overseas Chinese have not been absent in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic. They donated money and supplies, and "chartered to send masks." They should not be ignored in the "retrograde" groups in China's fight against the epidemic. And when living in the country encountered an epidemic, the overseas Chinese came out to match the living in the country, raise anti-epidemic materials, and help spread China's anti-epidemic experience to the world.

In the "epidemic" of this war, the overseas Chinese have always been participants in the fight against the epidemic in China and the world, and a bridge and link between China and the world in fighting the epidemic. Isn't it another embodiment of "building the motherland"? In spite of their contributions, they are also today's "Woollende" in the face of this new epidemic.

Recently, there is a saying that in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the overseas Chinese have hit the court. In fact, from Wu Liande to Zhong Nanshan, the contribution of the overseas Chinese community also penetrated the "full field" of the century-long history of epidemic resistance.

The data map is on March 18, Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, at a press conference attended by the Press Office of the People's Government of Guangzhou City. Photo by Chen Xin, reporter from China News Agency

Looking back on the course of the Chinese revolution and construction in the past century, the overseas Chinese community also participated in the "full court."

In the struggle to overthrow the monarchy and fight for the republic, the overseas Chinese were called "mothers of the revolution" and were important backbone forces of the 1911 Revolution. During the War of Resistance, overseas Chinese "destroyed their families and reported on the country." The group represented by mechanics directly participated in the Anti-Japanese War. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, overseas students such as Qian Xuesen returned to participate in the construction of the motherland. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, it was the overseas Chinese who became the "pioneers" to enter China. Overseas Chinese capital accounted for China's attraction. When the proportion of foreign capital was the highest, it reached 60% to 70%; during the Wenchuan earthquake, overseas Chinese donated more than 1.1 billion yuan for earthquake relief in 20 days ...

"However, the path you visit, the world is green and green," these engraved memories of history can be erased by the phrase "building the motherland, you are not here".

Sharing morality, He divides the two townships. No matter a century ago or today, overseas Chinese have never been absent from the motherland to fight the epidemic. They have always been in the construction of the motherland. (Finish)