In order to promote Esperanto and let more people know about this language, I was invited by the National Association to share my experience and experience of learning Esperanto with all of you. 
The author's Esperanto enlightenment teacher (from left: Huang Wei, Gao Jingjie, Gao Fengmao, Jin Kang, Li Shude, Liu Xiumei) remembers that in the early 80s, I heard about Zhang Haidi's story from the newspaper broadcast. Although I didn't have the opportunity to go to school, I studied all the courses in elementary and middle school, as well as university English, Japanese, German, and Esperanto, and studied for university and master's degrees. I was deeply inspired by the strong belief and enterprising spirit of a young woman who was a high paraplegic, and I was secretly determined to follow Heidi's example and make my own contribution to the early realization of the four modernizations! I also knew Esperanto from Zhang Haidi's deeds, but I didn't know what kind of language it was. In the summer of 1984, on my way to work, I saw an advertisement at the entrance of the Esperanto Enrollment Brochure at the entrance of the Electrical High School in our city, and I immediately signed up and started my ......Esperanto journey
On July 15, 1984, the first Esperanto workshop in Jiamusi City opened. The teacher had a strong Hunan accent and was named Gao Fengmao. Mr. Gao said that in 1887, the first book of Esperanto program created by the Polish ophthalmologist Dr. Zamenhof was published, and he hoped that there would be no war on the earth, a piece of peace, and that people would express their wishes in the same language, understand each other, tolerate each other, trust each other, and let the world be full of love and achieve world harmony. 
The author (middle) took a group photo with Shi Chengtai (left) and Gao FengmaoI learned about Esperanto for the first time and became interested in it. I listened very carefully and remembered it very well! Esperanto pursues world harmony and human peace, and its inner ideals share the same philosophy and original intention as the communism we believe in! I want to learn Esperanto, and I want to learn it well! After a month of part-time study, under the guidance of Liu Xiumei, Gao Jingjie and Huang Wei, we finished learning the textbook compiled by Li Weilun. Then we set up a study group to study at the home of Professor Jin Kang of the School of Medicine. When we saw that the communication between the teacher and his wife was smooth and there was no language barrier (Mr. Kim Kang is Korean, my wife is Japanese), I was even more determined to learn Esperanto! After some time, the teacher and his wife were going back to Japan to settle down, so we said goodbye to the teacher. At this time, it was already the autumn of '84. On September 9, the Jiamusi Esperanto Research Association was established, and the meeting elected Li Shude (then secretary and deputy director of the Municipal Health Bureau) as the president, Gao Fengmao as the vice president and secretary general, and our three teachers Liu Xiumei, Gao Jingjie and Huang Wei as the directors. We, the students, are all members. In the spring of 1985, the Harbin Esperanto Association was established, and the research society sent me to attend the meeting and deliver a congratulatory speech on behalf of the Jiamusi Esperanto Research Association. As a result, I got to know many teachers in Harbin, including Yang Ren, You Kuanren, Yang Yanben, Wu Jie, Shi Chengtai, the principal of Tailai County School for the Deaf and Dumb, and so on. Since then, I have been on the road of Esperanto to go further into the future. 
In the summer of 1985, the Jiamusi Esperanto Research Association received a notice from the All-China Esperanto Association: in order to welcome the 71st International Esperanto Congress held in Beijing in 1986, the Beijing World Association would hold a three-month oral training course to train staff for the conference. As soon as I received the notice, I asked for leave from school to go to Beijing to learn Esperanto. Together with Zhou Hang and Wang Xiaoqiu, I went to Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which is now Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and received three months of oral training there. During my three months in Beijing, I learned a lot of things that I had never learned before, and I met a lot of people and things that I had never seen before, which opened my eyes. I also got to know a lot of mentors and friends, including Li Shijun, Zeng Heyao, Xie Yuming, Dai Songen, Zhu Mingyi, Hang Jun, Liu Junfang, Xue Meixian, Zhang Haiping, Liu Ling, Hou Zhiping, Zou Guoxiang, as well as Chen Shide, who is over eighty years old, Zhang Dali, Kong Lei, Ke Baiyang, Li Jianglong, Chen Yafen, and Mr. Zeng Dingzhi, the oldest member of our class, and so on. These people are firmly engraved in the depths of my memory and have laid a good foundation for my life! After three months of oral language training, I graduated with honors and participated in the first National Esperanto Conference held in Kunming, Yunnan Province, as one of the representatives of the first oral training course of the Beijing Esperanto Association. In July 1985, at the age of 22, I came to Beijing from Jiamusi and boarded a train to Kunming with my teachers and classmates. After a few days of travel, we came to Kunming, which is like spring all year round, this is the first time in my life to Yunnan, and I still remember the demeanor of Jing Jiguo, the heroic instructor of the battle heroes on the front line of Laoshan in Yunnan. This year's congress simulates the agenda of the International Congress in preparation for the 71st International Esperanto Congress. Here I experienced the beauty of nature, the unique cultural customs of ethnic minorities, the unity and friendship of various ethnic groups, and the charm of the Esperanto language. 
Group photo of teachers and students of the Beijing Speaking Class at the First Esperanto Congress in ChinaMany of the firsts in my life happened in 1986. In July 1986, on the eve of the 71st International Esperanto Congress, Du Zhonghuan, a Esperanto classmate from Jiamusi, and I came to Beijing. During this period, I met through Du Zhonghuan and Liu Jingjing, a fellow Esperanto from Jiamusi Huanan, and became husband and wife. Although we have only been together for 20 years (my lover Liu Jingjing passed away due to illness in 2008), this journey will never be forgotten by me. 
In 86, the author (right) and his teachers Zeng Heyao (left) and Dai Songen were on the Great Wall, and when I was studying in the Beijing speaking class, Mr. Xie Yuming was our main teacher. He often takes his daughter to the class to interact. This child was the first girl in my country to speak Esperanto as her mother tongue since birth, and I was so envious of that! I was secretly determined that in the future, I would let my children also speak Esperanto as their mother tongue. (It's just a dream .......)I participated in the 71st International Esperanto Congress as a volunteer, and during the conference I learned a lot of knowledge that I couldn't find in books, and I came into contact with more than 2,000 people from 52 countries of different colors and nationalities! And I was shocked that so many people of different races spoke the same language. 
Group photo of the 71st International Esperanto Congress in BeijingAfter that, I had the honor to attend the first International Esperanto Congress of Science and Technology held in Beijing. After returning to Jiamusi at the end of the meeting, I took advantage of the convenience of my work at that time to hold a workshop. Two workshops were held in the library and the agricultural school, with about 200 participants. In the spring of 1987 in Harbin, I co-founded the Heilongjiang Youth Esperanto Association with Professor Geng Tiezhen of the Japanese Department of Harbin Institute of Technology and other Esperanto scholars and served as its vice president. In the spring of 1989, under the attention of the Jiamusi Youth League Municipal Committee, the Jiamusi Youth Esperanto Association was established and I served as the president. 
In October 1988, Mr. Yoshimi Umeda (third from left in the front row), Vice President of the International Esperanto Association who received visits from Jiamusi Esperanto (front row, third from left): In 1990, I was transferred from the post of school teacher to work in the Public Security Bureau, and temporarily left the Esperanto community to start a public security work for 32 years. Despite my busy schedule, I have not forgotten my original intention and often find time to attend Esperanto conferences and events held in various places. In 2003, I participated in the 5th National Esperanto Congress held in Yanji, Jilin Province, in 2016 I participated in the 8th Asian Esperanto Congress held in Quanzhou, in 2019 I participated in the 13th National Esperanto Congress held in Shangyu, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, in 2023, I participated in the 14th National Esperanto Congress in Beijing, and more than 10 regional Esperanto congresses. In 2016, on the recommendation of Shi Chengtai, the elder president of the Heilongjiang Esperanto Association, I began to serve as the president of the Heilongjiang Esperanto Association. Over the past few years, in order to develop local Esperanto activities, I have traveled from city to city in Longjiang, connecting with Esperanto speakers from all over the world and encouraging them to carry out learning and exchange activities. The teaching and research work of the Harbin Esperanto Research Association has been carried out very well, and Ms. Song Ping has held Esperanto workshops at various levels, and actively organized exchange activities at home and abroad. The activities in Jiamusi City have also been carried out very well, and learning and activities have not been stopped during the epidemic. They will organize members to assemble on every major festival to commemorate the birthday of Comrade ***, sweep the tomb of Yingzi Midorikawa, visit the museum and the sculpture hall of the Anti-Japanese Federation, as well as poetry and calligraphy friendship activities. The biggest achievement of Jiamusi is that after more than three years of unremitting efforts, the Jiamusi Esperanto Association has finally been approved by the civil affairs department and has become one of the official Esperanto associations in the country. I have been working with Esperanto for nearly 40 years. In the past 40 years, I have benefited a lot, not only broadened my horizons, increased my knowledge, but also made many friends. In Jiamusi, we have more than a dozen good friends who have been together because of Esperanto and have not broken contact for 40 years. We treat each other like brothers and sisters, like brothers and sisters, and we share weal and woe. In the past 40 years, my personal organizational and coordination skills have also improved greatly, and more importantly, I have gained a deeper understanding of Esperanto. Esperanto's concept of universal harmony is consistent with the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind advocated by President Esperanto, and we are willing to make efforts for this great goal. In the new era and the new international situation, we will continue to promote the dissemination and promotion of Esperanto. We will also discover Esperanto talents in more cities, establish Esperanto organizations, promote the development of Esperanto in the north, and carry out online and offline teaching activities, so that more people can understand Esperanto, learn Esperanto, and join the green wave of Esperanto. 
In September 2023, the Jiamusi Esperanto Association was officially established through the review of the Ministry of Civil Affairs**: the All-China Esperanto Association.
Does Esperanto work? Let the facts speak! (Huang Yinbao).