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Have you ever heard the story of "The Fool Moves the Mountain"? If the "foolish father" fails to move the heavens and gets the help of the "Emperor of Heaven", what will he face in the end?
The answer to this question may be found in Sun Guoyou, who spent half his life in exchange for 10,000 acres of green, but for just a drop of water, he now has to kneel down and ask for help.
A weathered man knelt down in front of the camera, just for the tens of thousands of acres of water-starved saplings. He is Sun Guoyou, a former multimillionaire who is now fighting for his dream on the Gobi Desert.
The ideal is very beautiful, but the reality is cruel, he was full of expectations for the future, but now he wants to ask more than a billion people across the country for water. His experience is full of sadness and suffering, but it proves that fighting with the sky is endless; Fighting with people is full of difficulties.
His story makes us feel the greatness and resilience of human nature, and also makes us think about the relationship between man and nature.
Sun Guoyou, he could have lived and worked in peace and contentment in Sichuan, but he chose to go north to Ningxia and experienced a difficult life. He has set up a stall and opened a black taxi, but these did not make him give up.
Eventually, he took advantage of the opportunities of real estate and infrastructure to become a successful contractor and accumulated a fortune of tens of millions. Although he has succeeded, he still wants to make another move on the chessboard of life.
His experience teaches us that with perseverance, there is nothing that cannot be done.
In 2003, Sun Guoyou took over a road construction project in the Mu Us Desert in Lingwu City. During the bulldozing, the engineering team unexpectedly discovered that there was water under the desert.
Water, for the desert, is the most precious thing. With water, there is hope for life. This discovery gave Sun Guoyou a bold idea: to plant trees. Planting trees in the desert seems to be going against the laws of nature and challenging "God".
For ordinary people, this idea is simply whimsical and difficult. However, Sun Guoyou was not persuaded, he firmly believed in the spirit of "foolish man moving mountains" and decided to challenge himself.
So, he contracted more than 10,000 acres of white sand and began his journey of "moving mountains". At that time, he was only 44 years old.
Planting trees in the desert is a difficult task. Sun Guoyou once experienced that the saplings planted on the first day were all blown away by the wind on the second day. Sometimes, planting 10,000 saplings only ends up surviving 2,000, which is a remarkable achievement that requires a lot of time and money.
By 2019, Sun Guoyou had spent tens of millions of his family property on the purchase of tree seedlings, including all the houses and equipment. He exchanged these possessions for 180,000 acres of desert greening, but there are still 3,000 acres that cannot be changed.
In the process, his family began to understand his actions, and even his wife and family moved to the desert to support him wholeheartedly. Sun Guoyou's father-in-law died in 2005, and his mother-in-law died in 2009, and they spent their lives in the desert for the end.
In the past 20 years, Sun Guoyou's experience has sometimes made people feel sad, and sometimes it is a little funny. A few years ago, his tree was eaten by the herdsmen's flocks, and when they watched the desert grow greenery, the nearby herdsmen brought their sheep to visit like "nectar on dry land", and Sun Guoyou's green vegetation was gnawed into a mess.
This made his heart ache, and his face flushed with anger (although his face had long been tanned and could not be seen red). So he went down himself, yelling, waving his hands to drive the sheep away, and finally drove the herdsmen and the sheep away.
It is said that since then, Sun Guoyou has been particularly fond of mutton, and every time he eats it, he gulps it out and is ruthless.
Despite all the difficulties, Sun Guoyou has been able to cope with them properly. However, it wasn't until one incident happened that he encountered the biggest challenge of his life: the discovery of mineral deposits in the ground beneath his feet.
Around 2010, a mineral was discovered near Sun Guoyou's forest farm, and a coal mining company contracted it. In fact, from the very beginning, everyone knew that there would be disputes between the forest farm and the mine over the water source.
Therefore, before the establishment of the mine was approved, the local government set up a rule: the forest farm must be supplied with water. It can be said that "water supply to the forest farm" is one of the important conditions for the mine to obtain approval.
But will things really go so well?
In 2014, CCTV News reported on the current situation of Sun Guoyou's forest farm with the title of "Ningxia Shenhua Ningxia Coal Shuangma Coal Mine Discharge, Thousands of Mu of Sarin Destroyed". At that time, coal mining had already led to water pollution, and Sun Guoyou's more than 1,000 acres of sarin had suffered serious damage.
However, the story did not garner widespread attention and was quickly drowned out by other interesting reports. Seeing that the forest farm he had worked so hard to plant could not grow normally due to lack of water, Sun Guoyou felt very sad and helpless.
As a result, he was forced to replace some drought-tolerant shrubs and tried to buy water sources in the surrounding area to water the trees. However, in desert areas, the water retention rate of the land is extremely low, and usually only a dozen saplings can be watered by a truckload of water.
Therefore, Sun Guoyou's efforts are undoubtedly inadequate.
Faced with the dilemma, Sun Guoyou had no choice but to compromise and began to ask the mine for water. However, the mine rejected Sun's request on the grounds that "the salt content of the discharged water is too high to be suitable for watering trees".
The mine is obviously reluctant to become the focus of the ** again and avoid being on CCTV again. However, Sun Guoyou did not understand this, believing that the mine has the ability to remove salt from the water, because the mine needs to use two to three thousand tons of water a day, some of which has already been successfully desalination.
However, there is a cost to removing the salt, which the mine is reluctant to pay for the forest. In fact, as early as 2003, before he started planting trees on the farm, Sun Guoyou had already asked an agency to test the groundwater situation, and at that time it was concluded that the water source could be used directly for irrigation without any treatment at all.
So why did you need to remove the salt later? The answer is self-explanatory.
After experiencing several setbacks and difficulties, Sun Guoyou finally saw the dawn of hope with the help of **. After internal consultations, the mine decided to resume the water supply to Sun Guoyou Forest Farm at 10 a.m. on the 27th.
After learning the good news, Sun Guoyou was so excited that he didn't close his eyes all night, and he immediately hired technicians from Lanzhou and rented two generators and other mechanical equipment to make adequate preparations.
However, just when everyone thought that the matter was about to be resolved satisfactorily, a ** from nowhere shattered this hope. ** The head of the mine changed his face dramatically, and he told Sun Guoyou that he would rather lose his credit than lose his job.
In the end, Sun Guoyou still didn't get the water he was looking for.
Water is the source of life, and this is a truth that everyone understands. Without water, 10,000 acres of forests and farmland will face the fate of destruction, and there is only a dead end left. Seeing that 20 years of hard work was about to turn into ashes, Sun Guoyou couldn't suppress his emotions and knelt on the ground and looked up to the sky and roared.
He couldn't understand whose interests he was violating by planting trees, and why it was so difficult. Could it be that the story of "the fool moves the mountain" can only become a myth? In our modern society, don't we need such a tenacious spirit as "Yugong"? "
Sun Guoyou's "foolish" spirit is not unquestioned, after all, for most people, only "fools" will do things that are "unprofitable and harmful to themselves and others".
Some people even took out the fact that Sun Guoyou had received 7 million yuan in compensation because of the mine, thinking that he only planted trees to cheat compensation and make money. But I would like to ask a question, did the forest farm come first, or did the mine come first?
Some people questioned why trees were planted in the desert instead of grass. They believe that the desert is short of water and that planting trees will only exacerbate the strain on water resources. I disagree with that.
Excuse me, which is more effective in changing the desert environment, tree planting or grass planting? If water is plentiful, why don't we plant trees in the desert? This kind of questioning is like "why not eat minced meat", which has no practical meaning.
According to the latest information, Sun Guoyou's negotiations with the mine have ended, but the water supply has not yet been restored. Instead, one company quickly issued a statement distancing itself from the mine.
Clearly, things go beyond the water supply problem, and it will take time for the mine to figure out how to solve the problem. Nevertheless, we can foresee that Sun Guoyou's matter will eventually be resolved satisfactorily, those irresponsible mine workers will be punished as they deserve, and the 10,000-mu forest farm will continue to have access to water.
However, I can't help but wonder if Sun Guoyou's problem was really solved, and was it entirely because of his actions that moved the mines? What if they are not in the public spotlight?
In general, although "Yu Gong moves mountains" is just a myth, our world does need people like "Yu Gong", who are all passionate and not afraid of difficulties and insist on doing things.
They are the backbone of our society, and without them, our society would be a state of misery. Therefore, we should respect them and not let them feel cold. Finally, I would like to emphasize that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets".
Some people only see the value of minerals and ignore the importance of protecting the environment. I hope they can understand this truth and respect the "foolish" and our environment.