The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been in the past year, and the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine has completed its evacuation time and time again in the war state.
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The Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022 is described in four words - "there is beginning but no end".
On the morning of October 8, a truck exploded on Crimea Bridge and caused a fire, and some sections of the bridge collapsed instantly.
This is war, and even the clearest sky will be "overwhelming".
After October 10, 30% of Ukraine's power plants were destroyed. Ukraine continued to take power restrictions on the same day, requiring people to prohibit the use of irons, electric heating, floor heating, washing machines and other electrical appliances from 17:00 to 23:00 every day.
People did not usher in the dawn of peace,
On the contrary, the darkness of war follows like a shadow.
Ukrainian Boluojiangka,
People and cats perceive light on their mobile phones in the dark world,
This is also the only way to save power.
Local time on October 12, 2022, in Kiev, Ukraine, satellite images showed new damage to the substation of the Tets-5 power facility.
On October 18, the energy infrastructure of Kiev was attacked, and
here became almost the only "light source" in the dark.
At the same time, 11 countries including India, Serbia , and China have also successively evacuated from Ukraine , or directly closed the embassy in Ukraine.
However, if we count the experience of evacuating overseas Chinese from Ukraine in detail this year,
Only China can be called "Ride for thousands of miles, and the journey back is a long time."
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Laotian , a Chinese who has lived in Kiev, Ukraine for more than 20 years is experiencing this war.
Early in the morning of October 17, before he could wake up his child to take online classes, local residents were told to enter shelter again.
The Russian drone attack that lasted for several days has caused Kiev and Kiev Prefecture , other six states including Ukraine, Odessa, Vinnica, and 6 other states have also sounded air defense alarms.
Lao Tian said:
"I have been very calm about this scene. I used to watch wars in the media, but I didn't understand why children continued to play outside after fighting. Now I have a deep understanding of being in the war.
Life has to continue. In the face of protracted war, everyone has become accustomed to this state of war readiness."
Lawtian, like many Chinese people who have lived in the local area for decades,
Due to living here for a long time, they did not evacuate in advance.
But now, this is the most dangerous place in the world.
On the same day, Lao Tian received a notice from the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine.
Kiev Chinese Xiaoyi was also awakened by the explosion in the early morning of the 17th, and
Then she hid in the cellar at home.
There is a lot of food in the cellar and a bed,
Although water, food, the Internet, etc. are basically normal.
However, for safety reasons, she registered as soon as possible after receiving the embassy’s evacuation notice.
Amid the flying gunfire, two words flashed in my mind:
Go home !
As of 13:47 on October 17, Ukrainian time, when Xiaoyi submitted the registration form, the system showed that 159 centralized evacuation demand registrations had been collected.
Staff from the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine said that the second batch of
is expected to be in November.
Recalling the evacuation of the overseas Chinese half a year ago, the thrilling and vivid memories are still vivid in my mind.
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Li Min studied and lived in Ukraine for 5 years. If it weren't for this war,
Maybe she was still in a foreign country at this time.
The Russian-Ukraine war broke out on February 24, and for the first time she felt that the war was so close to her.
On February 28, at the Ukraine- Moldova border port,
Chinese evacuated Chinese people lined up with other personnel to wait for the transit. Photo by Li Min/
On February 25, the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine issued an emergency notice,
Please register Chinese citizens who intend to evacuate from Ukraine.
At 9:46 am on March 5, Beijing time, the first batch of second temporary flights to receive Chinese citizens from Ukraine and return to evacuated from Chinese citizens landed safely at Zhengzhou Airport ,
Li Min is one of the 156 evacuees on this flight.
Half a year has passed, and she occasionally wakes up from her dreams.
Perhaps this is the nightmare brought by war.
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Wendi studied History and International Relations at Zaporozer National University. He just obtained his master's degree in February this year.
Originally, she planned to go to Kharkov , then visit her tutor, say goodbye to her friends, and then return to China to prepare for the Chinese teacher qualification certificate exam.
However, the perfect plan was broken by the war.
For security reasons, Wendi purchased a flight ticket to Odessa, a western Ukrainian city, on February 22, because Odessa has a Chinese Consulate General.
I think, what's the matter? It's always safer to get closer to the embassy.
Facts have proved that this is a wise move.
On February 28, the Chinese Consulate General in Odessa organized a evacuation and transfer operation from Odessa to Moldova, and Wendi was on the list of the first batch of evacuation and transfers.
Odessa area implements a curfew policy, and everyone will turn off the lights during the curfew to avoid becoming a target of attack. At night, Wendy sat in the dark room, listening to the gunshots coming from time to time from afar. The sound of
was exactly the same as the sound of firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, but it was terrifying.
When she received the evacuation registration notice from the embassy, she signed up immediately.
On March 4, in Bucharest, Romania, the first batch of Chinese evacuated overseas Chinese finally boarded the plane and returned home.
Compared with those international students who chose to return to China at the first time,
has such a group of people who are in a dilemma.
Because boarders need to hold Chinese passport or travel permit ,
can be found in , who has been in wu for many years, Du Shaofu has already married and had children in the local area.
All he can do is take his two children back home.
Ukrainian wife advised him:
"Don't kill the group, take the children away first, just walk as many as you can."
In the face of the war, it is inevitable to separate flesh and blood.
Du Shaofu and his wife and children
Also in trouble is Sun Guang, who has lived in Wu for more than 20 years.
In addition to his wife, he has 5 children and parents-in-law.
How can he leave his relatives and return to China alone?
Hand photo of Sun Guang, his wife, Liana and his younger daughter
Hand heartbroken, the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine issued a notice:
Foreign spouses, parents or children of Chinese citizens can leave together by car.
In contrast, the United States evacuated its overseas Chinese from Wuhan, which is a real version of the separation of wives and children.
Benjamin Wilson has been living in Wuhan with his Chinese wife and 7-year-old daughter. After learning that the United States has evacuated overseas Chinese, he said he refused to return to the United States, because he "will not leave his wife."
At that time, about 1,000 Americans lived in Wuhan.
However, the evacuation flight can only carry 230 people,
and passengers need to pay for the ticket themselves.
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Compared with the evacuation of overseas Chinese in Afghanistan in July last year, the evacuation of overseas Chinese in Ukraine was significantly slower.
just negotiated with the Ukrainian government, and it took a full four days. After
officially evacuated the Chinese people, he did not fly directly from Ukraine to China, but first transferred to the neighboring country.
In fact, the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine has also considered directly chartering flights to evacuate overseas Chinese. On February 25, the Embassy also issued a notice on the need to register for charter flights to evacuate overseas Chinese.
But the danger of charter flights is in front of you.
Ukraine implements strict air control measures, and often encounters shelling and missiles in the air. If you encounter danger during the charter flight evacuation, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Ensure the safety of Chinese citizens is a prerequisite for evacuating overseas Chinese.
must try every means to minimize the danger!
At 10:26 Beijing time on March 1, Beijing time, flights in Europe
Finally, on the 8th local time, more than 10,000 foreign citizens, including Chinese citizens, evacuated from Sumei, the country in three batches.
vehicles carrying 115 Chinese students departed in the first batch. There were about 50 international students from Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Turkmenistan and other countries evacuated with the Chinese convoy.
html On the 39th, more than 100 Chinese students in the Samui area have safely evacuated from high-risk areas, and the vast majority of Chinese citizens in in Ukraine have evacuated. In the consular express train, the first and second ones...
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evacuation messages are constantly updated.
A local international student wrote on Weibo:
"I burst into tears when I heard 'Motherland pick you up home'. We took off from Warsaw, Poland and arrived home at 7:30 the next morning. Thank you all staff, thank you for my motherland!"
On the flight back to China, everyone sang "My Motherland and Me" together.
Throughout March, dozens of evacuation flights returning to Ukraine landed at Chinese airports, and the Chinese-style evacuation once again amazed the world.
The United States, which has always been self-proclaimed, issued a statement on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine on March 24:
The United States has suspended its consular service in Ukraine on the same day, and The U.S. government will be unable to assist U.S. citizens to evacuate Ukraine. Consular services for American citizens in Ukraine will be provided by the embassies of the United States in Hungary, Moldova, Polish , Romanian and Slovak .
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evacuation of Ukraine for nearly a month can be described as dangerous.
During the evacuation of the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine, a staff member of the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine escorted 88 students on a bus to Moldova.
encountered three bombs exploded less than an hour after departure.
When the students were escorted back,
Because the driver was too tired, the car fell into the ditch...
Fortunately, it did not overturn, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong also mentioned:
" While checking a certain venue on the spot, our diplomat was suddenly pointed at the head with a gun . Fortunately, it was finally safe."
There are more than 6,000 Chinese citizens in Ukraine. In addition to the more than 1,000 people evacuated by themselves, the embassy and the Consulate General in Odessa worked closely together and worked together to organize, guide and coordinate the evacuation of more than 5,000 people.
In the words of Ambassador Fan:
"In such a tense and critical situation in Ukraine, all staff were safe and sound except for one person being injured. As the saying goes, 'Bullets do not have eyes'. It is really a miracle to be able to not die."
On the afternoon of March 9, local time, with the last batch of Chinese students evacuated from Sumei, Ukraine arrived at the Lviv Railway Station in the western Ukraine city of Lviv, Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong announced that 's mission of evacuating Chinese compatriots from Ukraine has been successful! The task of
has been completed, but their mission is not over yet.
To this day, the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine still sticks to Lviv .
As the alarm keeps sounding,
ambassador Fan Xianrong often wears body armor for interviews.
diplomats are called suit soldiers who do not carry guns, and this is true.
Some diplomats will write suicide notes in advance when performing tasks.
If you encounter danger, you must first protect your face.
Because once an accident is killed, this will be the only "credential" to identify the identity.
In fact, if you strip away the identity of diplomats, they are also ordinary people with flesh and blood.
ahead is the dangerous evacuation road, and behind them are the family members who care about each other.
But when danger arises, they will still choose to stand in front of their compatriots and open up the way in the face of the war.
unarmed and move forward.
A foreign actor in the movie "The Road Back" collapsed and cried after entering the role and said something in his heart.
We are not living in a peaceful era, we are just lucky enough to live in a peaceful China.
The smoke and crying in the distance are not far away.
Today's China is no longer the past.
In 2022, China officially surpassed EU and became the world's second largest economy.
In 2021, China's GDP increased by 8.1% over the previous year, with a total economic output of 114.4 trillion yuan, reaching 17.73 trillion US dollars, exceeding the EU's 2 trillion US dollars, which is equivalent to one more South Korea than the total of the 27 EU countries.
30 years ago, China's economic scale was less than half that of Italy, and
but now it has exceeded the total of the 27 EU countries.
If China surpassed Japan in 2010, foreign media were still quite dissatisfied and repeatedly emphasized that China's bubble was serious and could not stay in this position for long,
Then when it surpassed the EU in 2022, foreign media would be much quieter.
Only when the country is strong can the people be dignified;
Only when the country is strong can the years be peaceful.
Wish to send China with an inch of heart and give the years to the mountains and rivers;
Wish to defend the prosperous China with our youth.
