China News Service, Hohhot, December 7th. Title: Where did the 30,000 sheep donated by Mongolia go?
China News Service reporter Shang Hongbo Zhang Wei and Li Aiping
In February, at a time when China's new crown pneumonia epidemic was severe, Mongolian President Khaltma Battulga visited China and announced that he would gift 30,000 sheep to China to express his support for China's fight against the epidemic.
Where are these 30,000 sheep now?
From October 22 to November 13, these 30,000 donated sheep arrived in China in 14 batches.
After quarantine, quarantine, slaughter, sub-packaging, and transportation turnover, from Erenhot, which is more than 20 degrees below zero degrees Celsius, all the way south. As of December 7, medical teams from all parts of China have received donated mutton, 289 boxes in Inner Mongolia and 486 boxes in Shaanxi. , Guangdong 954 boxes, Guangxi 348 boxes...
"It's not necessarily the rich who can give you meat in a famine year, but it must be Anda (Mongolian, meaning brother-in-law)." This is a proverb widely circulated on the grassland. These 30,000 donated sheep are called "Anda" sheep, it confirms the Mongolian people's support for China's fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
"Mongolia is an animal husbandry country, and the sheep represents a cultural symbol of Mongolia. Through this move of giving Mongolia cultural symbols as gifts to China, it shows that the two countries are a permanent good friend relationship." Said Tao Getu, a researcher at the National and Regional Research Center of the "One Belt and One Road" of the National Committee of the People's Republic of China-Mongolian Research Center and Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication of Inner Mongolia Normal University
On November 20th, the Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce announced the distribution plan for mutton. The first-line medical workers in designated hospitals for the treatment of new coronary pneumonia in the province and the medical teams from all parts of the country who have made significant contributions to the decisive results of the Hubei and Wuhan defense wars. And the family members of those who died on duty during the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hubei Province shared this warmth and touch.
In Hubei, the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University invited representatives of medical staff, volunteers, and builders who had worked side by side in the Leishenshan Hospital to share the "Anda" lamb.
Jiang Xiang, an employee of China Construction Third Bureau who participated in the construction and maintenance of Leishenshan Hospital, said that "Anda" mutton eats in his mouth and warms his heart.
In Inner Mongolia, the medical team member of the medical aid to Hubei, the nurse of the International Mongolian Hospital Sarina, and her colleagues received a box of mutton, but she was not willing to eat it yet and wanted to taste it with her parents.
In Henan, Cui Dongfeng, a member of the medical aid to Hubei and a doctor from the Third People's Hospital of Zhengzhou, was assigned a rib, a leg of lamb, and a piece of mutton.
On the night he got the mutton, he and his wife tried it together.
At the same time, on Chinese social media, the friendship of "Anda" is also "steaming" with comments-Shaanxi people "call their name" lamb buns, Sichuanese "love" lamb hot pot, cumin lamb, Stir-fried lamb with scallions, kebabs, mutton soup... In the comments, everyone felt the true feelings.
Seeing this hot discussion, Bayarma, a Mongolian student studying in Inner Mongolia Normal University, was particularly happy.
He said that in Mongolia, the host would kill the sheep to entertain the distinguished guests at home. The more the guests eat, the happier the host will be.
In the non-governmental exchanges in Mongolia, the most precious gift is sheep, which expresses sincerity and enthusiasm.
Just as the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian responded by quoting the Mongolian proverb, "Send a camel when you are successful, it is better to send a needle when you are down."
He emphasized that Mongolia's donation of 30,000 sheep to China reflects Mongolia's firm support for the Chinese government and people in fighting the epidemic, vividly interprets the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, and highlights the profound friendship between China and Mongolia and the two peoples.
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