" Yale University ! Full scholarship! I got admitted!" 20 years ago, when he just graduated from high school, he took the standardized test for American university entrance.
Because of his outstanding performance, Yale University invited him to receive a full scholarship, and he can enjoy many free subsidies such as tuition fees and travel expenses.
That year, there were only two high school graduates in China with this qualification. And he is one of them.
The proud son of a poor family
His name is Qin Yuefei . He was born in a poor worker family in Chongqing in 1985.
His parents were both workers at the lowest level. With a meager income, the family of three lived in the basement of an old housing area, living a hard life of frugality.
Sometimes in order to save money, they will buy processed foods that are on the verge of expiration.
is from such a poor family. Qin Yuefei has never given up his love for learning, because he deeply knows that only by succeeding in his studies one day can he change his own destiny and let his family live a good life.
Therefore, Qin Yuefei has been outstanding since he was a child, and his grades have always been among the best.
In 1998, he was successfully promoted to Chongqing Foreign Languages Experimental Middle School. is the only secondary school with foreign language majors in southwest China.
After the high school entrance examination, he was admitted to the famous Chongqing Nankai Middle School.
And when he was about to graduate from middle school and everyone was still hesitating about filling out their application, he simply signed up to take the TOEFL exam.
That year, his TOEFL scores were all perfect in all four categories, and his goal was to attend the highest university in the United States.
Returned Village Official
He is a veritable academic master, a proud son from a poor family. He has used his own strength and hard work to win a bright future that is envied by thousands of people.
When he arrived at Yale, he completed two degrees in politics and economics. Before he graduated, many outstanding companies offered him an olive branch, and offered him an annual salary of one million yuan, hoping that he could stay and work in the United States.
At a young age, he has risen through the ranks. This is the path to wealth that many overseas students dream of.
However, after Qin thought about it on his own, he actually chose to return to China after graduation.
In the graduation season of that year, he, who had achieved academic success, came to rural Hunan alone with a "Village Official Registration Form" in his hand. The job he wanted to apply for was the position of "Village Director Assistant", and the salary was only more than a thousand yuan per month.
Everyone was dumbfounded by Qin Yuefei's decision, and many people even ridiculed him. Even his American classmates said: "Such a good set of life cards, but you have been beaten to pieces."
Only he knows what he wants. He gradually understood that the world never lacks outstanding elite students, but it lacks people with excellent minds and at the same time willing to work down-to-earth for the people.
Touched China
Qin Yuefei is very happy to work for the people, even if he just starts as a village official. But the little village official is not that easy to do.
Hejiashan Village in Hengyang, Hunan Province is a completely poor mountain village, with only a few hundred people in the whole village.
When Qin Yuefei first took up his post here, no one came to pick him up. When he arrived at the village committee, he was led to a small house with only a few square meters. This will be his office for the next three years.
The people in the village don't pay attention to any top students who have returned from overseas. Every family here has a difficult time to recite, and what ability does a young boy who has just entered the society have to call on the work of the whole village?
Qin Yuefei naturally understood that the test had begun. He followed the locals and put on coarse clothes and cloth shoes. He searched for the countryside and visited every household in the village. He consciously and actively adapted to the life and work here. In order to save water, he asked himself to take a shower only once a week.
In one month, he visited 258 households in the village and learned about the members and different difficulties of each household.
This young man with a childish face can sit anywhere, chat with everyone he meets, fix electrical appliances, find children, and take care of everything. He has suddenly transformed into Hejiacun 's "one of our own".
"It feels good to do things for the people in the village, just like doing things for my parents." There is always a small book beside him. He records in detail whose roof is leaking, whose children's tuition fees are not paid, and even whose family has to do weddings and funerals, and then does it personally and helps each other. During the three years that
was here, he broke his legs and talked nonsense, attracting millions of poverty alleviation funds for the whole village.
There were no roads in the mountains, so he organized young adults to dig mountains and build roads. It was difficult for remote students to go to school, so he repeatedly worked in the county and won school buses and subsidies to pick up the children. Even the surrounding areas will benefit.
The village had difficulty in drinking water, so he planned to open a canal for drinking water. The street entrance was too dark, so he went all out and applied for the installation of street lights. He really solved the problem for the villagers, allowing everyone to live a good life in a down-to-earth manner.
In 2014, his term came to a successful end. Despite his excellent work performance, he refused to be promoted and instead requested to be transferred to the more remote Baiyun Village of ..
He said : "I grew up in a poor family. The reason why I study and work hard is to make every common people who work as hard as my parents happy."
The next year, he launched the Black Soil Wheatfield Charity Plan. The plan of
is to integrate hundreds of thousands of rural areas across China, from Shandong to Tibet, and connect all young village officials to a common network to achieve crowdfunding, e-commerce rural areas, entrepreneurial assistance and other issues.
He hopes to use more resources and better methods to allow rural people in different areas to benefit from knowledge, so that young people in the village can understand the society and the mountain villages, so as to further drive the mountains and the whole of China to go further.
This plan achieved breakthrough results. In the same year, many agricultural and sideline products in different villages gained industrial development prospects through crowdfunding. Once sales channels were secured, farmers' incomes naturally increased.
High-level dignitaries also visited the project base and spoke highly of it.
When another three-year period expired, Qin Yuefei once again rejected the increase.
He believes that his own value lies here. He believes that the connection between young students and rural areas should become closer and closer. He must fight all the way with rural people, and this road has just begun.
In 2017, he was selected as one of the top ten people who moved China. He is the "most handsome village official" elected by the people.
Thousands of troops and thousands of horses are not enough to cherish.
The ancients said: Thousands of troops and thousands of horses are not to be cherished. It hurts people just to get a general.
In today's era, in order to pursue fame and fortune, we constantly stage thousands of troops crossing a single bridge.
Therefore, when we see many people who can obviously live a better life, we feel it is a pity and wonder why they don’t let themselves live a better life?
However, what is called a pity actually comes from everyone’s different inner standards. If the utilitarian standard of success or failure is removed, wouldn’t it be a pity and bad cards would be more valuable?
Compared with Mr. Qin, who suddenly emerged as a new force, isn't it "a pity" for those educated elites who worship foreigners and never return to their hometowns?
