Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 1: "I want to show him the new changes in Yumai"

　　Xinhua News Agency reporters Shi Jingnan, Chen Shangcai and Li Jian

　　"Can the general secretary call my name, can you not make me excited?" Recalling the warm scene four years ago, Zhuoga, the former head of Yumai Township, Longzi County, Shannan City, Tibet, smiled happily.

　　In March 2018, Zhuoga, who was newly elected as the representative of the 13th National People's Congress, walked out of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and entered the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

　　"The general secretary came to us, and he was as amiable as he saw on TV." Zhuoga said word by word in the Chinese he had just learned: "General Secretary Xi Jinping, hello!"

　　"The representative around told the general secretary that I am from Yumai, and the general secretary asked if it was Zhuoga from Yumai Township." Zhuoga nodded again and again, and responded to the general secretary's concern with "Zashi Dele".

　　Less than half a year before that, on October 28, 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote a reply letter to the Zhuoga sisters - "Only a country can have a home, without the peace of the border, there will be no peace of ten thousand families. A piece of grass on the territory of the motherland. Ichiki, we have to be optimistic about it..."

　　This letter is hung in the most eye-catching place in Zhuoga's house.

She said: "What the general secretary said to me in the letter often reminds me of those days when I followed my father on patrol."

　　Yumai used to have only three people - the village chief Sanjie Quba and his two daughters Zhuoga and Yangzong.

34 years ago, after taking over Abba's crutches, Zhuoga was walking on the way to patrol the border for the country.

　　When she was tired of walking, she looked up at the holy Rila Snow Mountain, and remembered that her father was holding the five-star red flag that she sewed by herself and told her: "To protect the land under your feet is to protect the country."

　　No pompous, no rhetoric.

After receiving the reply from the general secretary, Zhuoga still faced the wind and snow and insisted on patrolling the border.

"The general secretary's entrustment and my father's wish are my spiritual sustenance."

　　The next time I saw the General Secretary up close was on June 29, 2021, in the Golden Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where the "July 1st Medal" was awarded.

　　"Tashi Delek!" General Secretary Xi Jinping greeted Zhuoga cordially with a smile on his face.

　　With mixed feelings, Zhuoga held the hand of the general secretary tightly, and said shyly: "Hello, general secretary, you have worked hard!"

　　Unforgettable scenes turned into precious photos.

Whenever Yumai welcomes new builders, Zhuoga will take a photo and tell them: "The 'July 1st Medal' awarded by the general secretary does not only belong to me, the party and the country will not forget, all ethnic groups who stick to the border of the motherland. people."

　　Once, with joy and gratitude, Zhuoga showed everyone the "planning map" of Yumai Township at the National Two Sessions.

　　Today, the blueprint has become a reality - the former "three-person township" has become a well-off township with more than 200 people in 67 households and two administrative villages under its jurisdiction.

In 2021, the per capita annual income of the township will be nearly 40,000 yuan.

In front of the door of every household, the bright five-star red flag is raised high; the newly built kindergarten and primary school spread the laughter of children...

　　Zhuoga's eldest daughter, Pasang Zhuoga, graduated from University and chose to return to Yumai to become a village revitalization specialist; her nephew, Solang Thondup, graduated from University and became a civil servant in Yumai Township... more and more Young people are like beautiful Gesang flowers blooming on the border of the snowy plateau.

　　The opening of the National Two Sessions this year coincides with the Tibetan New Year.

The proposals prepared by Zhuoga are about subsidies for border residents, road construction and tourism development.

　　Showing the photos and videos on her phone, she said happily, "If I see the general secretary again, I'll show him the new changes in Yumai!"

General planner: Fu Hua

Producers: Zhao Cheng, Shen Hongbing, Huo Xiaoguang

Coordination: Wu Jing, Wang Xuan, Shi Yongnan

Text: Shi Jingnan, Chen Shangcai, Li Jian

Editors: Yang Wenrong, Zhang Aifang, Zhang Huihui

Video: Gyaltsen, Loden, Kelsang Langer

Vision | Poster: Xu Zhuang

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