Around the vernal equinox, the peach blossoms in the Wumeng Valley gradually faded away, and the clusters of sisal on the hillside became greener. While waiting for the rain to come, people in the mountains were busy turning the ground and planting corn.
At dawn, two iron doors of Zhang Shun's house creaked open. Every Monday, Thursday and Friday are the days when he and Li Guoxiu go to the market. On Thursday, we will visit the town on Monday and Friday. They rushed to sell corn seeds, and the couple had been in this small business for more than ten years. When farming is in season, you can’t fall down by selling seeds. "Let's go after dawn, the stalls are gone, and business is delayed," said Li Guoxiu, who is sitting in the motor tricycle. The spring breeze was blowing, and her two sleeves were shaking.
Perhaps no one noticed: the two people in the car only have one hand and two feet in total.
"In terms of hardships and poor conditions, Zhang Shundong's family cannot find a second household in Dongchuan." Chen Chaoyun, head of the Bajiaoqing group, told reporters: "The government is also helping, but it mainly depends on itself. They are capable and capable. No one in the village is dissatisfied with this spirit!"
html On December 25, at the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping "named" in his speech: "Zhang Shundong, a villager from Bajiaoqing Group in Pingzi Village, Wulong Town, Dongchuan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, said: 'Although we are disabled, we are not mentally disabled. We still have brains and hands, let's think about it.'". The General Secretary’s love is warm and the spring in the small mountain village is stronger. Li Guoxiu said: "I'm really happy! We will never forget the General Secretary's expectations for the poor. We will live well, develop production, and live a prosperous life."With one hand and two feet, we have been married for 28 years. The couple has worked hard to get to this day. How can we get the sweet days when swallows carry mud and bees make honey? Wumeng Mountain is high, the river is long, and the warm red land of Dongchuan is written with the story of them not bowing to their destiny...
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Off the expressway from Kunming, about an hour and a half drive to Dongchuan District, "Tiannan Tongdu". Dongchuan, known to the outside world for its resource depletion and frequent mudslides, was once the only deeply impoverished (county) district in Kunming City, and was lifted out of poverty in 2019. After passing Dongchuan, you will cross the Dabai River and Diu River, cross a mountain, and before you will see Wulong Town in the valley. On the
navigation map, the mountain road is in a flattened "S" shape. The car climbed all the way, passed through the village, turned down a big slope from the main road, and arrived at Bajiaoqing.
pushes open the large iron gate of Zhangshun Dong’s house, and the right hand is neatly-coded firewood, and more than 30 chickens, ducks and geese in the house are pecking happily. Looking up, it is a clean and clean courtyard: the cement floor is swept and there are green flowers and plants on the steps, hydrangeas are blooming and strawberries are bright red. Surrounding the yard are low civil and industrial houses, cramped asbestos tiled houses and bright framed bungalows.
Three houses record a history of struggle.
1993, in several earthen walled houses, Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu began a new life after marriage. Zhang Shundong accidentally grabbed the high-voltage line at the age of six. His right arm was amputated and his two heels were seriously injured. He could only walk with his forefoot. And Li Guoxiu was born without arms. Worried that the two of them could not live together, Li Guoxiu's family disagreed at first. Zhang Shundong ran to the door again and again to help do this and that. Seeing that the young man was diligent and simple, the town girl Li Guoxiu married Bajiaoqing.
Li Guoxiu is ranked fourth at home, and people in Bajiaoqing are used to calling her "Li Xiaosi". When Zhang Shundong was in the fourth grade, he was stubborn and never showed weakness when he went up the mountain to pick up firewood and carry pine hair. The villagers called him "Zhang Laodong", which is homophonic to "labor". When he was in his teens, he carried grains to Dongchuan with the villagers, crossed mountains and ridges, crossed three rivers, and walked for more than 40 miles for three or four hours. "Zhang Laodong" could carry twenty or thirty kilograms at a time. Pan Fayun, an old party member in the village, said: "Zhang Shundong, I have watched Zhang Shundong, and I worked hard. I am not as good as him in the ordinary people."
1994, my daughter Zhang Guangqiong was born, and life at home was even more difficult. Li Guoxiu wiped tears with her feet: Sometimes she didn’t have a penny, and she felt that life was too bad as human beings. Others could harvest millet and could not harvest them themselves. When planting seedlings, they couldn’t find anyone to help. The two of them were so anxious that they cried, and they were all in a desperate situation!
The doll is dead, and the couple cried and had to fuck them.Zhang Shundong said that if someone can finish the work that someone can lose a few beads of sweat, we have to wet a few layers of clothes and grind out a few more blood blisters. The two of them went downstairs as soon as dawn. Zhang Shundong dug the pit in front of the corn, and Li Guoxiu planted the corn; the husband picked up the corn in front, and the wife picked it up with a basket in the back. Li Guoxiu, who had never cut vegetables at her parents' home, practiced basic skills in both feet. Slowly, her feet can cut vegetables, embroider flowers, and plant them: her feet can thread their needles, and the embroidered flowers look like real; she can clamp rapeseed the size of sesame seeds with her toes.
In 2013, his daughter Zhang Guangqiong was in her third year of high school and her life was at its most difficult time. My daughter studied art and went to Kunming to take the art exam. The tuition fees and painting supplies combined totaled more than 10,000 yuan. For Zhang Shundong and his wife who make a living by breeding and small businesses, this is a huge sum of money! I found a way to raise more than a dozen more pigs at home. The land is missing, and pigs are not well fed enough. In addition to the seven or eight acres of land, the couple also rented a few acres of land. Zhang Guangqiong said that after his parents finished their work at night, they would prepare pig food the next day, and it was often midnight.
At this time, Zhang Shundong's heels were inflamed. The wound that could be protected by a band-aid was cracked and his feet were swollen like a hammer. Sometimes when walking, the footprints are covered with blood; when soaking your feet at night, there is another pot of blood. When he was sleeping, the pus and blood flowed to the quilt and made a foul smell. Li Guoxiu had no time to wash and was bitten out of the hole by a mouse. His family advised Zhang Shundong to take a break, but he refused: "If your feet are free, your family will be free and your family will be free."
The injury continued to worsen, and Zhang Shundong's left foot reached the point where he had to amputate his limb.
's daughter advised him to have surgery, and Zhang Shundong shook his head, "The money is spent in the hospital, what should you do when you go to college?"
's daughter said, "I won't read the books anymore, I'm going to go out to work!" Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu were both angry and loving, and the whole family cried.
This year, Zhang Shun's home was included in the registered poor household. Later, he had left foot amputation surgery. According to relevant policies, the operation fee was more than 20,000 yuan, and his family only paid more than 800 yuan. Zhang Guangqiong will always remember: I went to college and my father exchanged it for me with his feet!
This is Zhang Shundong's first amputation surgery. Shortly afterwards, he inquired about the prosthetics everywhere, and there were prosthetics that could work. Others recovered from surgery and then installed it after one or two years. He only had more than a month of cultivation to install it.
Zhang Shundong's second and third amputations are all related to the house at home. Life improved in 2015. His family paid off some debts and replaced the green tiles of the house with asbestos tiles. From then on, they would never leak whenever they rained. However, due to fatigue, Zhang Shundong could not save his right foot.
In 2017, the state subsidized 51,000 yuan in agricultural hazard reform funds, and my daughter took out all the savings she had just started working. Just like a swallow building a nest, the new house in the family grows brick by brick with the small amount of money they save every day. However, Zhang Shundong had an amputation surgery on his right leg. In order to save money, he drove a tricycle to pull the building materials by himself. He worked day and night on the construction site, and his work was harsh again...
He told reporters: "Although the policies are good, you can't lie in the arms of the country. Only by living a good life can you live a good life."
watered it with sweat and blood, and dreams will always bloom. In 2018, Zhang Shundong's family became a "glorious poverty alleviation household" commended by Yunnan Province; in 2020, he won the National "Prosperity Award" for Poverty Alleviation, and in the same year he also won the "National Civilized Family" and "National Most Beautiful Family".
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"If people want to develop, they must use their brains", this is Zhang Shundong's catchphrase.
, for example, sell corn seeds. First, selling corn seeds is suitable for them. Coral seeds are not as perishable as fruits and vegetables; they are not as bulky as scrap copper and iron, and are not easy to dress up. Second, there is a way to sell corn seeds: a relative in the town does this business, and purchases are "close to the water". Third, there is also knowledge about selling corn seeds: What varieties are suitable for dry land? What is the best place to plant in a cool place? Or was the climate dry or the rainy water? They all have to adapt to local conditions, so they sell more than ten kinds of corn. Zhang Shundong said: "Selling seeds is like a doctor prescription."
Zhang Shundong, smart.
carry millet to sell, and he found that people in the city should look good first when eating rice. There is a water mill near the village. The beige produced is dark and rough, so he carried the mill to the machine mill on the edge of the city. The fine rice that was unshelled was shiny and naturally it was better to sell it.How to work after amputation in 2013? He spent more than 8,000 yuan to buy a motorized tricycle, and he relied on it to go to the ground and go to the market. He drove with one arm, braked on the right handle, and he found someone to change it to the left. Before going to the operating table that year, thinking that life was too hard, Zhang Shundong called the newspaper reporter for a report, and it really attracted donations from kind people, which solved some urgent needs. In response, Zhang Shundong said: "People cannot speak, one is one, two is two, we can't pretend to be pitiful."
Zhang Shundong, likes to think about it.
His convenience store has been open in that civil engineering house for more than 30 years and is also the only one in Bajiaoqing at present. During the interview, someone bought cigarettes. Li Guoxiu took the cigarette with her feet, then clamped it with her neck and shoulders and handed it to her. A pack of cigarettes costs 20 yuan, and the customer handed over a hundred yuan bill, and she used her feet to find the money to hand it out. The shelves of the convenience store are not high, and most of the daily necessities are placed on the ground, which is convenient for Li Guoxiu to "take". When talking about business, she sighed: "It's getting two yuan for a pack of cigarettes, and it's getting harder to do it."
"It's convenient to go to the market to the city, and there are many cars, so who can still come to the convenience store to buy things?" Zhang Shundong analyzed why it's "hard to do it": "There are many elderly people and children left in the village, and the children are starting school again, and no one is spending."
is difficult to "sit in business", so "trade business". Chen Fayun told reporters that it is not easy for Zhang Shundong and his wife. It is not good for the New Year. Every year, they drive a tricycle to Dayingpan to sell goods, snacks, firecrackers for children, and what they make money! Dayingpan is a tourist spot in Wulong Town. There is a custom of singing mountain songs for a few days during the Chinese New Year. Zhang Shundong didn't find it difficult to do this: "I'll see the scenery and make some money, and I'll learn what others sell."
In November last year, Zhang Shundong had another surgery on his leg and couldn't do farm work: if he had amputated again, he could only be above his knees, and he might never stand up again. In early March, Shi Yong, deputy director of the Dongchuan District Commerce and Investment Promotion Bureau, brought the e-commerce manager to his home to tailor the development plan for his family, and suggested using the couple's "brand effect" to do e-commerce. Zhang Shundong was a little confused. He said, "Rural people can only do rural work and do e-commerce. They want a few tons of goods at once. Where do you look for it?"
In fact, two years ago, he had the idea of e-commerce and bought a second-hand computer for it. This time, the "leap" is indeed a bit big. He participated in an e-commerce training class organized by the Dongchuan District Disabled Persons' Federation and also downloaded various software on his mobile phone. Under the guidance of his teacher, his online "Shundong Store" was opened, mainly selling Yunnan black tea and Dongchuan copper crafts. However, after some attempts, Zhang Shundong's first e-commerce trial was not very successful.
Shi Yong advised Zhang Shundong that this time it was not his own business. The district integrated noodles and other specialties. Starting from opening an online store, successful e-commerce companies have guided and led them to teach poverty-stricken households and disabled people with mobility-inconvenienced sales. I heard that there is a unified organization and guarantee, Zhang Shundong has fewer concerns. Li Guoxiu also mobilized him: "Which insect doesn't bite your hand! Now that the policy is good, it may be really successful." - She was afraid that her husband would go to the fields to do labor again.
Before Shi Yong left, Zhang Shundong stated: "Everyone works together, this can be done."
Zhang Shundong, study hard.
Chen Fei is the director of Wulong Town Cultural Service Center and grew up with Zhang Shundong in the same village. Last year, Chen Fei accompanied the "children" and went to Beijing to receive the "Prosperity Award", and accompanied them to make a tour report, traveling to four provinces and regions, namely Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi and Hainan. He found that at the beginning, he helped two people scan the health codes at the airport, and it didn't take long for them to learn to scan by themselves. When doing a tour report, Zhang Shundong was pronounced typos at the beginning, but he listened and learned all the way, and their stories also moved countless people.
Chen Fayun told reporters that Zhang Shundong's "theoretical level" surpassed me! He didn't know that Zhang Shundong downloaded "Study to Strengthen the Country" and kept learning with his mobile phone at home.
Li Guoxiu graduated from junior high school and was not inferior to Zhang Shundong's enthusiasm for studying. In 2013, she came into contact with cross stitch from her relatives and thought that it was just enough to spend time in the slack farming season and could still sell it for money. Embroidery is not difficult for her because she has learned to knit sweaters for a long time. What is difficult is that it is more refined, and it requires patience and perseverance."Li Xiaosi" was in a state of mind, and he made up his mind and embroidered it with one stitch at a time...
was interviewed at Zhang Shundong's house. As the noon approached, he insisted on cooking and made a spicy fat intestine for the reporter and Chen Fei. "Make two dishes and one soup," he said with a smile. The reporter hurriedly stopped him, and he was a little displeased: "That dish is not difficult. I have eaten it outside and learned to make it."
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I heard that the reporter was coming to the school to interview him, Zhang Guangqiong sent a WeChat message to principal Li Yafang: Please trouble you.
Turned along the hardened rural road, and the reporter came to Guandu Primary School in Yanglin Town, Songming County, Kunming City. Li Yafang praised him when he met: "Zhang Guangqiong is honest!"
In 2017, after Zhang Guangqiong graduated from Qujing Normal University, he came to Songming to teach. She is a counselor of the first-grade brigade of the school and takes two courses in art and mathematics. Li Yafang said that when the leader arranged work for Zhang Guangqiong, she never refused; if she had less class arrangements, she even asked the leader to say "I have no idea"; in Zhang Guangqiong, she could not see the pampering and fragility of a newly graduated female college student.
In October last year, Kunming City organized a lecture meeting and asked Zhang Guangqiong to tell her family's story. She refused at first, and the relevant departments thought that the school was not allowed to leave. Li Yafang said that when she was walking together, she told me privately: The young teacher was not at ease working, fearing that the impact was not good. The school trade union counts the families of employees in need, but Zhang Guangqiong has never signed up. Many colleagues in the school don’t know that Zhang Shundong and his wife are her parents. Zhang Guangqiong said: "My parents are very strong and will not bother others easily." After four years in college, Zhang Guangqiong minimized his living expenses, went to tutor children's arts after class and went to work in a restaurant. In 2017, when she built a new house at home, she bought furniture and a flat-screen TV. She paid back a total of 28,000 yuan in four years of student loans, and she paid them back one year after graduation.
reporter asked her: "What is the biggest difficulty I have encountered in these years?"
She thought about it seriously and said, "It seems that there is nothing that cannot be overcome." Then he added, "I have a more personality like my dad" and smiled.
Zhang Guangqiong introduced that his parents attach great importance to the education of themselves and their younger brother. The family is so difficult, I insisted on not letting my daughter drop out of school. , I never owe tuition and living expenses every year at the beginning of school. Sometimes my family can’t afford it, and my relatives and friends all borrow it. My parents saved money and had never worn any decent clothes, and all their bodies were covered with burrs...
Li Guoxiu said: "My daughter was admitted to university. I feel that I have lived for more than 40 years, and the first time I have hope."
html When she was 113 years old, Li Guoxiu said to her father, "I want to go to school." My father took him to the teacher, and the teacher looked at her appearance and asked her to write a few words first. Unexpectedly, Li Guoxiu wrote neatly with her feet - she had been learning and practicing secretly. After going to school, Li Guoxiu's stool is as tall as the tabletop. In winter, her feet couldn't hold the pen, and she had to stay up to midnight when she had to do more homework. She persisted until junior high school and had to go to high school to take the college entrance examination, but English and mathematics became her "stumbling block". She failed to pass the high school entrance exam, but she was unwilling to repeat the exam for a year, but she still failed. But that year, she met Zhang Shundong."We are not yet in high school education, but we have a dream of studying," Zhang Shundong smiled again.
As soon as her daughter started working, Zhang Shundong took the initiative to go to the village department to cancel her daughter's minimum living allowance. "She has a job, so she shouldn't have taken the minimum living allowance," said Zhang Shundong.
Chen Chaoyun said with admiration: "His family is ambitious. If you give him 100,000 yuan, you can't live like this!"
Since 2006, Zhang Shundong has served as the disabled liaison officer in Pingzi Village, serving more than 130 disabled people in the village. Zhang Shundonggan is serious about applying for certificates, receiving equipment, conveying materials, and pursuing policies. The state has nursing subsidies and difficult living subsidies for disabled people, and the subsidies for different disabilities levels are different. Many disabled people in rural areas do not know how to apply for disability certificates, so the government will come to the door to apply for a certificate. Some disabled people can get auxiliary equipment, and the auxiliary equipment can be repaired and replaced... These are all Zhang Shundong's job, and he is subsidized by 224.5 yuan per month. Wu Xingmin, a liaison officer for the disabled in Wulong Town, told reporters: "The benefits of 'Zhang Laodong' people, I admire him for not having any trouble with my work!"
walked into the yard of Chaocui's house in Bajiaoqing, and sheep, donkey, pig, hum, and there was a lively scene in the pen. Duan Chaocui was limping at the feed with half a bucket of feed.A few years ago, her and her husband's tricycle rushed down the slope and overturned, and they couldn't move on the spot. After lying on the bed for a year, he slowly daring to move down the ground, so Zhang Shundong sent the "walking aid" he was pushing. Duan Chaocui was grateful: "We don't understand the national policies. It's worry-free to have 'Laodong Zhang'. He is also a role model for the disabled."
Duan Chaocui's family is not bad either. The husband and son are doing business outside and come back to the field to work in the evening. There is a micro-tiller in the yard, and his family planted more than 20 acres of land. Duan Chaocui was identified as a second-degree disability, raising five sows, more than a dozen sheep, and a donkey. Wu Xingmin said: "We are hardworking people here, and many disabled people work outside. They are physically disabled and mentally disabled."
In January 2020, Dongchuan District held the first Disabled Games, and Zhang Shundong signed up to participate in designated basketball and table tennis. Although he didn't get the ranking, he still felt it.
reporter asked Zhang Shundong and his wife: "Life is good, and reputation is good. What are the plans for the future?"
Li Guoxiu said first: "I want to build another floor of the house, so that my daughter and son can bring their children back to live in the future."
"Happiness comes from labor. Only labor can lead a good life." Zhang Shundong replied: "Ride a horse for thousands of miles, and wear big red flowers when wearing flowers!"
The mountains are deep, the sky is high and the earth is thick. The more difficult and difficult, the more tenacious the struggle is, the more exciting the spirit of Wumeng Mountain people. Hu Jianghui, secretary of the Dongchuan District Party Committee, said: "This is a red land that is cultivated with sweat and even blood. It is also a red land that is getting stronger and stronger. The spirit of Zhang Shundong and his wife has soil."
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Last October, the National Advanced Deeds Tour Report Conference was held. As one of the members of the Eighth Reporting Group, Zhang Shundong participated in the reports of the four provinces and regions of Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi and Hainan. After making the first two reports, he took the initiative to submit to the relevant departments: When he was giving his own report, he asked his wife Li Guoxiu to stand beside him. So Li Guoxiu, who did not say a word, also stood on the rostrum.
None of them can do without each other!
Zhang Shundong went to his relative's house when he was a child. Seeing him walking, his relative said, "When you grow up, I will tell you that a girl in Wulong Town is her daughter-in-law." Zhang Shundong's brother was the same school as Li Guoxiu Junior High School. Zhang Shundong secretly asked: How does Li Guoxiu look? In 1993, Zhang Shundong and his brother went to the tobacco station to sell tobacco leaves. When they met Li Guoxiu for the first time, they felt that they fell in love at first sight: people are shorter, but they are a perfect match! Li Guoxiu also has a good impression of Zhang Shundong: she is quite handsome in a pair of white sneakers.
Zhang Shundong married his wife with a bride price of more than 300 yuan and said to Li Guoxiu: "As long as we are not lazy or cowardly, our lives will not be bad."
In spring, it is his turn to let the rice go to the field at night. Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu came to the field one after another, one after another, one after another. Li Guoxiu used his head and shoulders to illuminate Zhang Shundong who was hitting the ridge of the field. The sky was full of stars, the breeze was blowing, and the grass was worms were chubby. Zhang Shundong used his hands and feet to repair the ridges. The two of them lighted soybeans on the ridges. In the future, they would have beans made tofu and pickled black beans.
Winter sweet potatoes, the two of them came to the field as soon as dawn, stepping on the white frost, Zhang Shundong walked in front with a fork hoe and a basket on his back, and Li Guoxiu followed behind. Zhang Shundong raised his fork hoe with one arm and waved it hard, digging out a bunch of sweet potatoes. Li Guoxiu put down the basket, picked up the sweet potato with her feet and threw it in. The sun rises slowly, and the sunflowers on the side quietly raise their heads...
The sunset is setting, and on the country road, they rely on support. Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu's disability levels are both first-class. Zhang Shundong said to Li Guoxiu: "I am your hand, you are my feet." They are "a brother and a wife".
Work hard and life is not easy. Sometimes Li Guoxiu complains, and Zhang Shundong will yell at the mountains: Life is like climbing a mountain, life is like wading on a river, step by step, life has to be lived like this...
Endure in the work, work through hard times, and the hard days have an end. There are 807 households in Pingzi Village, and 420 poor households were registered in 2013. But among the first few households to get rid of poverty, there was Zhang Shun's home. In 2020, Zhang Shun's annual income was more than 20,000 yuan. His daughter is a teacher and his son works outside. His family lives in the middle and upper reaches of the village.
Chen Fei admired Zhang Shundong and his wife very much: "I went to his house for dinner during the Spring Festival two years ago. It was made by a girl. My son was also very capable and the baby taught well." Li Guoxiu couldn't help but talk about the hardships of parenting: "The children are hugged with their feet, and I owe them a hug for the rest of my life." Zhang Shundong and his brother took turns supporting their mother in their 80s. The family took care of their mother for half a year, and they worked hard to take care of their daily life. The old man said, "'Old Dong' is a good son, and Guoxiu is a good daughter-in-law."
came out of Zhang Shundong's house and walked down the slope for one or two hundred meters, which was his vegetable garden. In a vegetable field, lotus flowers are white, garlic sprouts, leeks and peas are lush and full of weeds. Li Guoxiu has good vegetable planting. There are no less than 10 or 20 varieties in the vegetable garden all year round. If you can’t eat it, you will give it to everyone. Chen Fei's vegetable field was separated from Zhang Shundong's house by a small ditch. Chen Fei's mother said that the family lacked green onions and beans, so Li Guoxiu asked her to pick them in her own field. She said: "'Li Xiaosi' also helped me pick peanuts, and my feet were more quicker than my hands!" The reporter talked to several women chatting on the roadside about Zhang Shun's house, and everyone praised him...
The villagers also helped their house. Wumeng Mountain has a custom: whenever there are red and white things, the whole village will help if there are any problems. If anyone does not have a family, there will be fewer people in his family to help. The Bajiaoqing group held a special meeting for Zhang Shundong's family: his family's situation is special, and there is no need to be a job for business and business; there is no need to be a job for public welfare undertakings in the village, and his family does not need to be a home. But Zhang Shundong's family has not been left behind in the village, even if they are going to stand alone.
In 2019, the daughter got married and the couple held a wedding banquet in the village. More than 20 neighbors in the village came to help and held more than 30 banquets. At the wedding, my daughter talked about her parents' grace and she burst into tears. Pan Fayun was invited to be the "maintainer". He said that everyone who came to help was sincere. This was something that could be eaten from the taste of the meal. "Everyone also brought gifts. Originally, the work was not paid according to the rules."
Just when I was growing sweet potatoes the year before, Li Guoxiu fell ill and saw that the sweet potatoes could not be planted. Chen Chaoyun brought more than a dozen people to help, and more than two acres of land and a lot of seedlings were planted.
Chen Chaoyun sighed: Before Zhang Shundong got married, the village sent a relief fund, and he also came to ask for it, but it was not allowed to not give it to his family. After marriage, the village had assistance and gave priority to taking care of his family. Now Zhang Shundong has changed a lot and has become "always supporting the work in the village." In fact, behind Zhang Shundong's changes, it reflects the development of rural areas, especially the great changes in the mountains and villages brought about by poverty alleviation. He told reporters: "I used to be a solid and poor person, and it would be difficult to live without fighting; now I have a good life, so I can make a lot of land for construction, and everyone is not petty."
In November 2020, Zhang Shundong's inflammatory infection in his leg recurred and was admitted to the district people's hospital. His condition affected many people. As soon as the meeting ended, Deputy District Mayor Yan Yin jogged to the ward to visit Zhang Shundong and his wife. Yan Yin took Zhang Shundong's hand and asked about his condition, saying, "Don't bear the difficulties yourself. Everyone is a family, let's think about the way together." The leaders of Wulong Town, Health and Family Planning Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau, Disabled Persons' Federation and other units also came and asked him to treat him well...
From high school to university, Zhang Guangqiong has been enjoying scholarships. The District Disabled Persons' Federation and the Wulong Town Government have sponsored Zhang Shundong to adapt to prosthetics several times. The wheelchair he is now in at home was also provided by the District Disabled Persons' Federation for free last year. Among Zhang Shundong’s current annual income of more than 20,000 yuan, part of it is policy-protected income. He and his wife both enjoy rural minimum living allowances, each with a monthly allowance of RMB 405 per person. The nursing subsidy for disabled people, they each have 110 yuan each month, and there is also a 70 yuan monthly living allowance for difficult living...
Zhang Shundong usually likes to hum "grass" -
"No flowers, no trees are tall, I am a grass that no one knows;
Spring breeze and spring breeze, you blow me green, sunshine, you shine me;
Rivers, mountains and rivers, you nurture me, earth, mother, you hug me tightly!"
He said: "Since you are destined to be disabled, don't be too inferior and painful; a dew drop on the top of a grass, as long as everyone is self-reliant, you will be as happy as a grass."
During the labor gap, Li Guoxiu spent a month embroidering the flag with one stitch and thread, embroidering the five-word striped words "Follow the Party forever", embroidering the gold-toned party emblem, and the shining "sickness and axe" in the upper left corner was also printed in the hearts of the couple...
Editor's note: The picture is provided by the Propaganda Department of the Dongchuan District Party Committee. I would like to thank
(Source: People's Daily Client Yunnan Channel)
