China Overseas Chinese Network, December 26th, title: 2020, too warm!
Editor's note: It's the end of another year.
For many people, this year is an unforgettable year.
At the end of 2020, China Overseas Chinese Network launched a series of manuscripts for the year-end planning "The Words of Overseas Chinese This Year" to learn about the ups and downs of the overseas Chinese this year.
In 2020, the overseas Chinese are "busy" and "difficult".
At such a difficult time, overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives have united unprecedentedly. From industry experts who bravely went to the front line to the overseas Chinese sister who silently guards overseas students, everyone has contributed their own strength to the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
Bits of warmth dispelled the haze and brought hope.
"Come on such a big event,
You should contribute your own strength"
Huang Xiqiu, a returned Indonesian overseas Chinese and architect, is 79 years old this year.
Huang Xiqiu is the first doctor of medical architecture in the history of New China.
During SARS in 2003, Huang Xiqiu led a team to design Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital.
Hearing the news of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, he couldn't sit still again, and wrote a "Please War Letter", saying that he was "ready to participate in the anti-epidemic project at any time."
A few days ago, returned overseas Chinese architect Huang Xiqiu was interviewed by a reporter from Chinanews.com in Beijing.
Photo by Wu Kan
On January 23, 2020, the Wuhan Urban-Rural Development Bureau sent an urgent help letter requesting technical support for the “Wuhan City Construction of a Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Hospital”.
An hour later, Huang Lao delivered the revised complete set of Xiaotangshan Hospital drawings to the other party.
Subsequently, Huang Xiqiu led the team to discuss design details with the design team of Huoshenshan Hospital, improve the design plan, and participate in the construction of the hospital.
Huang Xiqiu, a 79-year-old returned Indonesian overseas Chinese, stopped in front of his booth to introduce him.
Photo by Ran Wenjuan
"What do family members worry about you?" "The elderly are at higher risk of infection. What should I do if they are infected?"...Faced with these questions, Huang Xiqiu was very calm: "People at our age have grown up with the new China. When encountering such a major event, you should contribute your own strength."
"Voluntarily join the reserve echelon of the medical support team in Wuhan,
Regardless of life or death, no remuneration"
"I voluntarily joined the backup echelon of the Wuhan support medical team to fight against the new coronavirus pneumonia, regardless of life or death, regardless of remuneration..." On the morning of January 26, 78-year-old Jiangsu Yixing overseas Chinese dependent Deng Junpu delivered a handwritten petition to Yixing City Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Deng Junpu, a 78-year-old veteran family member of Yixing, Jiangsu.
Photo courtesy of Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Federation
Deng Junpu, who has practiced medicine for nearly 60 years, was born into a family of Chinese medicine practitioners and has been working in the frontline of clinics.
His daughter also works at the Chinese Medicine Hospital. After seeing the hospital's notification of recruiting volunteers, she immediately sent WeChat to tell her father that she wanted to sign up.
Deng Junpu decided to sign up to go to Wuhan with his daughter, so he handed in this "invitation letter" to the hospital leadership.
Deng Junpu said that in the face of the epidemic, every medical staff has no reason to retreat, and no right to escape. The more we are brave and the harder we can bring health to more people.
"Both China and Britain are my hometowns"
On February 14th, He Caixia, a Chinese nurse who has lived in the UK for more than ten years at London Heathrow Airport, prepares to fly back to Beijing.
On February 3, she submitted a letter of resignation to the Royal Invalides Rehabilitation Hospital and decided to fly back to China to participate in the fight against the epidemic.
"The domestic epidemic situation is severe. Seeing so many white angels retrograde on the front line, their spirit moved and inspired me. I am a Chinese, a medical worker, and I have the responsibility to go to the front line."
Data map: He Caixia, a Chinese nurse living in the UK, quit her job and took a flight back to China to fight the new crown pneumonia epidemic in China.
Photo by Zhang Ping
After returning to China, He Caixia volunteered in a hospital in her hometown of Anhui, answering patients' questions.
With the gradual improvement of the domestic epidemic situation, companies began to resume work and production, and He Caixia took advantage of foreign languages to be responsible for the reception and isolation of foreign reworkers at the isolation point.
Soon after finishing her voluntary epidemic prevention work in China, He Caixia chose to return to the UK to participate in the local epidemic.
He chose to go retrograde twice. He Caixia said that the virus is the common enemy of mankind. China and Britain are both their hometowns. “I want to do my best to help.”
"I also want to donate to express my heart"
At the beginning of the year, Ye Xiying, a 98-year-old overseas Chinese in San Francisco, USA, saw the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in Wuhan from the news of the local Chinese TV station. She was distraught and worried about Wuhan.
On January 31, she learned that her daughter-in-law was mobilizing local overseas Chinese to donate to Wuhan, and said to her daughter-in-law, "I also want to donate to express my heart."
Immediately, the old man took out his wallet from his pocket and took out the largest denomination of 100-dollar banknotes and handed it to his daughter-in-law: "This is a little bit of my heart! I hope the people in the affected areas can get through the difficulties soon."
The next day, Ye Xiying passed away at home.
The day before his death, he still remembered donating money to Wuhan. The story of the old man Ye Xiying touched countless people.
"Thinking about doing good deeds without leaving a name"
On January 31, the staff of the Chinese Consulate-General in Penang, Malaysia, found three gray cardboard boxes placed side by side outside the gate of the consulate.
There was no one around the carton, and there was no message left.
For safety reasons, the local police sent a group of bomb disposal experts, hazardous materials handling teams, firefighters and ambulances to the scene.
The police finally decided to dispatch a remote-controlled robot to detonate these cartons.
Under the expert's operation, the remote-controlled robot approached the box and placed the detonator.
With a "pop", the box was successfully detonated, and square white objects-masks flew out.
It turned out that it was a few Malaysian Chinese youths who left 3 boxes of masks at the gate of the consulate, took a short video, and ran away.
They also took a group photo with the signs of "Going on China" and "Wuhan Hold On".
These young Chinese who are concerned about the epidemic in China have a simple mind and want to do good things without leaving a name.
"I'm afraid you kids don't buy enough food,
I brought you something from home"
In early March, Italy announced restrictions on travel of people nationwide.
One day, Chinese student Sun Wen (pseudonym) and her roommate who were sheltering from the epidemic in Milan found a pile of things outside the house, and a piece of paper with a Chinese flag, which read:
Letter from an overseas Chinese neighbor to the student next door.
(Photo provided by interviewee)
"Hallo! I'm your big sister next door. Our neighbor has been around for so long. I only know that you are international students. You are all children held in the palms of your hands by your parents in China. People in a foreign country must take good care of themselves. You kids didn't buy enough food. I brought you something from home. Don't worry your relatives in China at this time. Let's cheer together!"
Sun Wen and her roommates received food and daily necessities from the overseas Chinese neighbors next door.
(Photo provided by interviewee)
The note also specifically marked in brackets: "Writing is really too difficult for someone like me who has only read the first grade of elementary school in China!"
In addition to some food, there was disinfectant water that was difficult to buy locally.
Sun Wen said that she only knows that her neighbor is an overseas Chinese, and she usually just says hello, and she has not had a deep contact. This time she suddenly received a "gift" from the neighbor and felt really warm.
"They are fighting the virus with their lives,
We should let them have warm and delicious meals"
After the outbreak in the United States, many restaurants were overwhelmed and closed.
The American restaurant group "Old Sichuan" is no exception. Many of its stores have closed and takeaways have stopped.
But many old customers, especially those who are fighting the epidemic, hope they can continue to provide services.
In late March, Hu Xiaojun, the owner of the “Old Sichuan” restaurant in Chicago’s Chinatown, learned that the local front-line staff were almost too busy to prepare three meals, and that it was difficult to even pick up the meals, so he decided to start from his own shop and provide free for those who insist on working Police, firefighters, medical staff and other front-line staff provide lunch and dinner.
After the event started, the response was very good, and many businesses actively asked to join.
The activities of sending love meals quickly expanded from Chicago to Illinois, and then to the entire United States.
Love Chinese Food has moved many frontline workers.
Many people posted photos on social media and wrote heart-warming text, and some gave thank you cards full of signatures of medical staff.
Hu Xiaojun said: "They (front-line workers) are fighting the virus with their lives and serving the community. Of course we should provide them with back-up work so that they can have warm and delicious meals."
"My compatriots are in trouble, how can they sit back and watch!"
After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in Argentina, overseas Chinese in Argentina spontaneously formed a "anti-epidemic volunteer team", including restaurant owners, supermarket operators, travel agency owners, and college students.
Helping the sick overseas Chinese, delivering medicine, food, masks, and acting as an interpreter... As long as the compatriots need it, they will be there on call.
Jiang Mengling, a Chinese girl, is a law student at the University of Buenos Aires. She is affectionately referred to as the "translator girl".
Li Ming, a supermarket owner who lives in Rosario, Argentina, has a nickname called "Smile Miami" because of his good personality and patience.
The volunteer team does not have a specific scope of business. Compatriots can call at any time when they need it and can do their best to do it.
“I was the only one who volunteered at the beginning, and since then, enthusiastic overseas Chinese have continued to join. There are now 61 volunteers in the team,” said Captain He Xiongming.
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2020 will not be easy.
However, because there are many such "warm" stories, and because of love, no matter how difficult it is, you can survive.
In 2021, I hope everything will be better.
(Reference: China News Network, the United States, "World News", American Press news etc; Author: Han Hui; ID: qiaowangzhongguo)