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Four months after the Jishishan earthquake, the reporter met Yang Shoulin in Jintian Village, Zhongchuan Township, Haidong County, Qinghai Province. He was short, dark-skinned, and had a simple and honest smile on his face. This man, during the earthquake That night, Yang Shoulin struggled to save seven neighbors. Looking back, Yang Shoulin still felt scared.
"It was dark and cold at the time, and I could only hear the sound of houses and trees collapsing in the distance, like firecrackers, crackling." Yang Shoulin said. On the night of the incident, he and his wife washed a bucket of clothes and were about to dry them when there was a sudden strong shaking.
Yang Shoulin, who had experienced the Yushu earthquake, was keenly aware of the earthquake. He grabbed his wife and ran out of the house, asking her to start the car quickly. He quickly knocked on the neighbor's door, "It's an earthquake, it's an earthquake...run out quickly!"
Hurry! A knock on the door woke up the sleeping neighbors. The terrified neighbors had no time to put on their cotton-padded clothes and hurried out the door. Yang Shoulin woke up one household and immediately knocked on the door of the second and third households... While knocking on the neighbor's door, he called his brother and asked him to take his sister-in-law and run out the door. After
woke up three or four neighbors, he asked the neighbors who escaped from the house to continue knocking on the doors of other neighbors, and he drove quickly to pick up his brother and sister-in-law one kilometer away. When he picked up his brother and sister-in-law who had run out of the house, he got into the car and left quickly. He witnessed the surging sand surrounding the wall of his brother and sister-in-law's house.
On the other side, when a neighbor knocked on the door of the seventh house, a woman was injured in the leg by the collapsed wall of the house. Fortunately, through everyone's concerted efforts, the injured were successfully rescued in a very short time.
"After bringing my brother and sister-in-law's family to my house, I heard someone asking for help in the WeChat group." Without enough time to settle his family, Yang Shoulin jumped out of the car, started another car and followed the sound. It wasn't until dawn that he realized that he had been wearing slippers full of mud.
In times of crisis, Yang Shoulin used practical actions to explain the responsibilities and responsibilities of a probationary party member. "At that moment, I didn't care about fear. I just instinctively saved people. Anyone else would do this." Yang Shoulin said in the interview. Now, as a candidate for the National May 1st Labor Medal, Yang Shoulin has a heavier burden on his shoulders. He thinks that he can do more and help more. Recently, he and several neighbors have been active, helping each other and doing their best to move bricks and sand to repair their homes together.
The construction site of the resettlement project. Photo by Ma Kexin of People's Daily Online
On the other side, we walked into the site of the earthquake disaster avoidance and relocation project (Jintian Village and Caotan Village, Zhongchuan Township) of the Jishishan Earthquake in Minhe County, Qinghai Province, where they were constructing access roads, excavation of house foundations, and preparing work and materials... Post-disaster reconstruction work is in full swing. The project started on April 12 and the affected people will be moved into new houses by the end of August. The style of decoration of the house has become a topic among the villagers in the past few days, and the joy that has not been seen for a long time can be seen in the brows.
Peach blossoms are blooming in the Peach Blossom Spring in Minhe County. Photo by Ma Kexin, People's Daily Online
Because of its low altitude, spring comes earlier in Minhe County than in other areas of the province. The peach blossoms are in full bloom, and the trees are sprouting new buds. Soon, this land will be covered in green again, and people here are enjoying the first spring after the earthquake. "The plan for the year begins with spring. We will live every day of the future seriously and live a better life for our relatives who have left." Yang Shoulin said. (Compiled by interview with People’s Daily reporter Zhang Liping)
