is China's first film from the perspective of a diplomat, " Homecoming " is adapted from a number of real evacuation events, which highly restores Chinese diplomats' high brilliance in protecting the lives of overseas compatriots in the face of overseas riots , and the hardships and difficulties of protecting compatriots abroad to return to the motherland safely, demonstrating the responsibility and responsibility of Chinese diplomats.
1. Diplomat Sun Bo
The diplomat Zong Dawei, played by Zhang Yi in the movie, was once captured by the rebels and threatened with a gun to make pro-opposition speeches on behalf of the Chinese government. This episode is the true story that happened to Sun Bo, the commercial attaché of my embassy in Kuwait during the 1990 Kuwait war .
In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the Kuwait War broke out. The Chinese embassy in Kuwait quickly started work to find out the situation of Chinese citizens in Kuwait and formulate a plan for the evacuation of overseas Chinese. As a working member of the embassy, Sun Bo was assigned to assist in the evacuation of 240 overseas Chinese stranded in the embassy. On August 13, due to the war, the embassy's food supply was cut off. Sun Bo and another colleague, Lu Hong, went out to buy food together. But just as the two were shopping for food, a team of Iraqi soldiers who had entered the capital of Kuwait, Kuwait City, suddenly appeared and intercepted the two. Iraqi soldiers took the pair to the nearby Regins Hotel for questioning. After the two presented the relevant documents of the Chinese diplomats, the Iraqi soldiers eased slightly. When Sun Bo breathed a sigh of relief, he was suddenly pointed at the head with a pistol by the Iraqi officer in front of him, and then the officer asked in a threatening tone: "As a Chinese diplomat, what is the attitude of the Chinese government towards our Iraqi attack on Kuwait? What's your attitude?" There was a lot of meaning in the words that if the answer didn't suit my mind, I would shoot my head.
Faced with the intimidation of Iraqi officers, Sun Bo was not intimidated, but maintained the integrity of a diplomat. He replied in a humble manner: "As a diplomat of the Chinese embassy in Kuwait, my attitude is the same as that of the Chinese government. The attitude of the Chinese government is the same, and you understand the attitude of our government, don’t you? If you have any objection, you can resolve it through diplomatic channels, instead of using brutal force to treat diplomats!”
The Iraqi military officer felt Surprised, he immediately put down his pistol and signaled his soldiers to let go.
But just as Sun Bo stepped on one foot of the car driving out of the embassy, two gunshots suddenly sounded behind him. One of the bullets was swiping close to Sun Bo's left ear, and a huge sonic boom It caused Sun Bo's left ear to lose his hearing on the spot, and Lu Hong beside him was shocked, but Sun Bo knew that this was the intimidation and play of the Iraqi officer just now. Although the left ear suffered huge pain, Sun Bo did not look back. After waiting for his colleague Lu Hong to get into the car safely, Sun Bo immediately stepped on the accelerator and returned to the embassy safely.
2. Evacuation from Libya - Desert Diplomacy
There is also a scene in the film where diplomats Zong Dawei and Cheng Lang cross the war zone and bring 125 Chinese compatriots through the vast desert to the evacuation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Overseas Chinese camp. This experience is actually based on a real event that happened in reality, that is, the evacuation of Chinese citizens from Libya in 2011.
Libya, a country located on the coast of North Africa, has an area about the size of 17 China's Zhejiang Province, but its total population is less than a Nanjing city. An important reason for the serious imbalance in the proportion of people to land is that most of Libya's land is desert or semi-desert areas, with harsh climate conditions and an extreme lack of fresh water, making it difficult to meet people's most basic living conditions, and there are few population gathering places. However, in Libya in 2011, many Chinese companies came here to invest and contract construction projects and railway construction projects. On February 15, 2011, the 13th day of the first lunar month, the employees of Huafeng Company were still filled with the joy of celebrating the Spring Festival. Large-scale anti-government demonstrations broke out in Benghazi, 150 kilometers away, and the situation in Libya was taking a step forward. progressive deterioration. Soon, thugs armed with machetes and hammers appeared at the entrance of the company. They were in groups of three or five and deliberately looted. For three consecutive days, thugs rushed into the company's office building to snatch property. forTo protect the life and property of the company's employees, the company organized workers to defend themselves, and arranged dozens of employees to stand guard at the gate every day to guard against gangsters' attacks.
But soon, the company employees who went out to investigate the news reported that the thugs who robbed the past few days have been entangled in a violent group of thousands of people, and they are preparing to storm the company camp on February 21. If this is the case, not only the company's property safety will not be guaranteed. , even the lives of more than 900 employees cannot be guaranteed. In order not to sit still, the company decided to cross the Sahara Desert to Benghazi, which has a harbor terminal, and take a local Chinese company boat to evacuate safely. On the evening of February 20, 936 employees of Huafeng Company, holding steel bars, carrying food and drinking water, set off towards the vast desert. After a hard day's trek, I finally found a village in the desert. Fortunately, the owner of the village is a gentle Libyan , who warmly entertained these guests from the far east. The most important thing is that there is a satellite phone that can be used in the village. The employees of Huafeng Company contacted the Chinese embassy by phone, and the Chinese embassy quickly adjusted the evacuation route. On February 23, 936 employees of Huafeng Company successfully arrived at the Benghazi port. At this time, thanks to the efforts of the Chinese government, the port of Benghazi has already berthed a cruise ship to assist in the evacuation of overseas Chinese. 936 people, a lot of them, all boarded the cruise ship to Malta , and then transferred to the island of Malta. Chinese government charter flights for Eastern Airlines to China. So far, Huafeng's "desert" evacuation operation has ended successfully.
also went through a desert trip to evacuate the overseas Chinese, and it also happened to the employees of the project in Libya of China Construction Eighth Bureau. But unlike the compatriots in Huafeng Company, the evacuation process experienced by the compatriots of the China Construction Eighth Bureau was even more thrilling. On February 24, in view of the rapidly deteriorating situation in Libya, the senior leaders of China Construction Eighth Bureau decided to bring back 269 employees in Libya via Egypt . This evacuation task was handed over to Wang Shouhe, the laboratory director of China Construction Libya Branch at the time. implement. From Benghazi, Libya to the east to Cairo, Egypt, there is a total of 1,600 kilometers. During this journey, nearly half of the area belongs to the war zone. Not only the signal is vacuum, but also the fighting is constant. The layers were set up, the refugee teams on the road continued one after another, and there was a chaotic and tense atmosphere of war everywhere. After a arduous journey, a total of 935 compatriots, including Wang Shouhe, China Construction employees and other tourists, finally reached the border of Lie. When
crossed the border, the crowd was crowded and the scene was chaotic. Wang Shouhe raised the five-star red flag in a hurry and shouted that his compatriots gathered together, everyone sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China , held up the Chinese passport , and wore a mighty crossed the border of Egypt. On February 26, 2011, the Airbus chartered plane carrying 277 CSCEC employees and overseas Chinese took off and flew towards the motherland.
Wen Shijun said that
in the movie "Returning Thousands of Miles", director Rao Xiaozhi drew material from China's overseas evacuation events over the years, and the deeds of diplomat Sun Bo and the desert evacuation are just the tip of the iceberg of many real events. However, unlike the previous Chinese movies with the theme of evacuation of overseas Chinese, "The Journey Home" does not have much "verbal preaching". Every picture in the movie is very realistic and realistic. The story comes from reality. Although it has been artistically processed, there is still no distortion. The real evacuation is more thrilling than what you see on the screen. War, killing and chaos, these human tragedies are not far away from us. A hundred years ago, our ancestors Just like today's people in the Middle East and the Middle East, they suffered from the flames of war. Because of a strong motherland, our compatriots have no fear in the face of disasters, and because of a strong motherland, the people have a strong backing. , without fear of thousands of miles of hardships, we always have a smooth way home.
References
Ma Qianli: "Libyan Evacuation Operation and China's Soft Power Improvement", "Learning Monthly", No. 7, 2011.
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