It's the end of the year again, and the hometown is busy for reunion.
14 years ago, a young mother with a huge bag and a baby in her arms caught the train, which spread all over the Internet and became the epitome of the Spring Festival.
On January 30, 2010, Bamu Yubumu hurriedly rushed to the train at Nanchang Railway Station with a big bag and a child (**Xinhua News Agency).
14 years have passed, and another year of Spring Festival has begun. In Taoyuan Village, Banqiao Town, Yuexi County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the reporter met Bamu Yubumu, a 35-year-old "Spring Festival Mother". Now she basically no longer goes out to work, farming in her hometown, and taking care of her children and the elderly.
It used to take her three days and two nights to return to her hometown, but now the bullet train has gone straight to the west; The dirt road that used to be at the entrance has now been updated to a concrete road; Once crammed into a cramped adobe house, the family is now living ...... new buildingIn the past 14 years, there have been earth-shaking changes, and so has the Bamu Yubumu family.
The "Spring Festival Mother" who was bent over by luggage
On January 26, 2024, the sixteenth day of the lunar calendar, the 2024 Spring Festival officially opened, and the major railway stations have been weaving.
14 years ago, in 2010, which was also the first day of the Spring Festival, a photo taken at Nanchang Railway Station in Jiangxi Province touched countless people. The mother is carrying a huge bag, holding the baby in one hand and the bulging backpack in the other. She was hunched over, but her eyes were extraordinarily resolute. This ** was taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Ke, and after it was published, it resonated with countless people, and netizens affectionately called her "Spring Festival Mother".
* The mother's name is Bamu Yubumu, who was only 21 years old at the time, and was a villager of Taoyuan Village, Wayan Township, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province (now Banqiao Town) after the township was withdrawn and merged into the town.
On January 25, 2024, the reporter came to Taoyuan Village, which is dotted with houses, a cement road runs through Taoyuan Village, and bundles of dried tobacco stalks are neatly stacked in the fields. The snow on the top of the mountain in the distance has not yet melted, and the warm sunlight is shining, and the sound of children playing and laughing can be heard in front of the house of Bamu Yubumu.
The children playing at the door were Bamu Yubumu's second daughter Wang Xueyi and her younger siblings, and Bamu Yubumu was on the way home to pick up the eldest daughter. Wang Xueyi is 12 years old this year, and is in the fourth grade at Xinmin Town Central Primary School, which is lively and sensible. After the reporter revealed her identity, she seemed to have the appearance of a "little adult" in charge of the house, and warmly invited the reporter to take a seat, accompanied by Wang Xueyi's grandparents.
When Bamu Yubumu drove a tricycle home with his eldest daughter, who was in her third year of junior high school, the children scrambled around her mother, and Bamu Yubumu took out the apples she bought for the children from the tricycle body.
Compared with the ** in 2010, Bamu Yubumu is much thinner now, she wears a hat, and there is still dirt left in her nails. She said that it was the day of her eldest daughter's winter vacation, and she was still working in the field before going to pick up her eldest daughter, picking up the stones in the field so that they could be planted after the spring.
Bamu Yubumu took a group photo with his children.
It took three days and two nights to return home
Talking about the ** of the "Spring Festival Mother", Bamu Yubumu recalled that in fact, for many years, she didn't know the **. It wasn't until Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Ke found her in 2021 and showed her this ** that she learned that she was being paid attention to by so many people.
Bamu Yubumu told reporters that the backpack in the ** looked very large, but the main stuff was clothes, quilts, etc., and it was not very heavy. And the backpack she was carrying at the time was filled with instant noodles, diapers and other things.
In the ** of 2010, Bamu Yubumu was holding his young daughter in his hands, but unfortunately his daughter died soon after returning home. In 2011, she gave birth to another child, but the child died only ten days later. Fortunately, the four children she gave birth to since then have grown up healthy, and with the addition of her eldest daughter, who was born at the end of 2007, she now has five children.
At that time, I was mainly moving bricks in a brick factory in Nanchang. Bamu Yubumu said that in the early years, they could only farm in the mountains, but a few acres of thin land could not support their family. In order to make ends meet, she entrusted her eldest daughter to the care of the child's grandparents, and she took her other daughter who was born to work outside the home. Since she has not studied and is not proficient in Mandarin, she can only find strength to work when she goes out, working part-time while taking care of her children.
When the ** was taken, she was about to go home from Nanchang, and she was reluctant to throw away the quilts and clothes in her part-time job, and she had to carry them all the way home, so she had such a huge bag. It took her three days and two nights to go home that time, two days and one night to take the train from Nanchang to Chengdu, and after a night of rest in Chengdu, she took a train for more than ten hours to get to Yuexi County, and then took a bus to return to Taoyuan Village. On the long journey home, she could only rely on instant noodles and bread to satisfy her hunger.
Moved into a new building and successfully lifted himself out of poverty
For the hard days of the past, Bamu Yubumu has a deep memory. The eldest daughter, 16, Wu Qirabumu, also remembers that the family was crammed into a small mud house, and she had to sleep on the sofa at night.
At that time, if relatives came, two more people would not be able to sit down. Bamu Yubumu said that when she returned home in 2010, she did not go out to work again, but grew tobacco leaves at home with her husband, which gave her time to take care of the elderly and children at home. In the following years, he also went out to work, and the family worked hard to save money to build a new house in 2018. When she built a new house, she was very excited, and felt that the family finally had a real shelter from the wind and rain.
The reporter saw that Bamu Yubumu's house is a two-story building, the highway leads directly to the door of the house, and the ground at the door is also hardened, and she usually drives a tricycle to pick up and drop off the children to and from school. The indoor floor is tiled, household appliances are readily available, and there is a big blessing word hanging next to the door. The ** of the "Spring Festival Mother" was framed in a photo frame and placed in the living room.
Bamu Yubumu introduced that at that time, ** provided a subsidy of 40,000 yuan, plus part of their own money, to build the new home. The eldest daughter, Wu Qi Rabumu, finally had her own separate room.
In the past, there was a dirt road at the entrance, so you couldn't walk when it rained. Bamu Yubumu said, now looking back at the original **, thinking back to the past, I have the urge to cry. At that time, she was working outside, and what she was most worried about was that the family called ** that the child was sick or there was something else at home, and she was worried that she would not be able to help.
Today, with their own land and rented land, Bamu Yubumu and his wife have planted about 20 acres of tobacco leaves, and most of the farm work depends on the two of them, and they will only ask for help when the tobacco leaves are harvested. Bamu Yubumu said that the income of tobacco leaves is 70,000 or 80,000 yuan a year, and although it is also very hard now, the important thing is to be able to stay with the elderly and children all the time. In 2020, the annual income of Bamu Yubumu's family reached 100,000 yuan, including 30,000 yuan of salary income and 70,000 yuan of family production and operation income, successfully achieving poverty alleviation.
Whoever is admitted to university first will buy a car for whomever he wants."
In 2010, Bamu Yubumu returned home near the Spring Festival, a year when she missed the Yi New Year, which is very important to the Yi people. In the 14 years since, although she and her husband have also gone out to work, they have never missed the Yi New Year reunion of the family. Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu ......She ran a lot of places; Electronics factory, breeding plant, construction site ......I also did a lot of work.
Some of them go out to earn money to support their families when the farm is not working, and some of them go out because the flood has washed away the land and wait for the land to be restructured. "When I went to the seaside in Fujian to breed seafood, the first time I saw the sea, the fishing rafts shook around, and I always felt that I was going to be shaken into the water. Bamu Yubumu said.
Compared with the difficult journey back to Yuexi from Nanchang, she went home much smoother after work, sometimes returning to Yuexi directly by bus, and sometimes going home by bullet train. Nowadays, it takes less than 3 hours to take the bullet train from Chengdu to Yuexi.
Bamu Yubumu and his daughters.
Throughout 2023, Bamu Yubumu did not go out, but continued to grow tobacco at home. Every morning, she would drive a tricycle to see off the elderly.
Second, old. The third and fourth children go to school in Xinmin Town, and then go home to work. From her home to Xinmin Town, it only takes about 20 minutes for her to drive a tricycle.
Bamu Yubumu said with a smile that she learned to drive a tricycle because her husband needed to drive agricultural machinery at that time, and no one cared about the tricycle on the side of the road.
However, because Bamu Yubumu and her husband could not read and write, they could not get a motor vehicle driver's license, so they gave up their dream of driving a car to their children. "Whoever of you gets into college first will buy a car. Bamu Yubumu said to his children. The second daughter, Wang Xueyi, took over the conversation and said that this "heavy task" must be completed by her.
Bamu Yubumu told reporters that in 2010, the daughter on the ** died because the medical conditions were too poor. Wang Xueyi was the first child in their family to be born in the hospital, and it was snowing on the day of birth, so they got the name "Snow Doctor". The children born after that, like Wang Xueyi, delivered babies free of charge in the county hospital.
They are very sensible, we can't read, the eldest will tutor his younger siblings when he is at home, and they will follow us to help when we break tobacco leaves. Bamu Yubumu said that she has always hoped that her children can study well and live a better life.
Due to the preferential policy, the fourth child now goes to kindergarten for free, and the rest of the children in school also have corresponding preferential policies, and the eldest daughter Wuqi Labumu also has a living allowance every semester.
The baby's hat is embroidered with the words "Years and Years of Peace".
In the evening, Bamu Yubumu took a walk in the sun with the fifth child who was less than a year old, and the children always liked to circle around their mother, laughing and laughing. The baby's hat is embroidered with "Years and Peace", which is also the wish of the Bamu Yubumu family.
At present, the Spring Festival has begun, and a large number of migrant workers have embarked on the journey back to their hometowns
The number of motorcycles returning home has plummeted
With the start of the 2024 Spring Festival, the Longshan gas station in Foshan in the early morning of January 26 ushered in a motorcycle team tens of meters long. These motorcyclical drivers are called "Spring Festival homecoming motorcycle army", every year in the Spring Festival tide, there is such a wave of motorcycle army on the road, most of them are workers from other places to Guangdong to work, before the Spring Festival will ride motorcycles back to Guangxi, Guizhou and other places, in their hometown and family reunion for the New Year.
According to statistics, the peak of the "motorcycle army" returning to their hometowns during the Spring Festival once reached more than one million. With the development of infrastructure such as road networks and high-speed railways, and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the scale of motorcycles has been reduced to 30,000.
Foshan Longshan gas station is a must for most motorcyclists returning from Guangdong to work. At about 10 o'clock on January 26, migrant workers returning to their hometowns on motorcycles at the Longshan gas station came to the gas station to refuel and pick up items. According to the on-site volunteers, after an 8-10 hour drive, many of them can return home to reunite with their families on the same day.
The gas station staff fills up the motorcycle. This is the 12th consecutive year that Sinopec has carried out this social welfare activity since 2013, and has provided free refueling, rest and other services for more than 4.58 million "returnees returning to their hometowns for the Spring Festival, more than 530,000 volunteers volunteered.
This year, the service objects of the "Warm Station" activity have been expanded to "warm people on the way home", providing nearly 20 kinds of free services for returning motorcycles and inter-provincial truck drivers, and giving away 4,500 "free refueling gift packages" and 10,000 "New Year refueling gift packages".
The recent drop in temperatures is undoubtedly a very test for riders returning home on motorcycles, but even so, it can't stop them from returning home.
The number of motorcycles has plummeted in recent years. According to the data of the Guangdong Provincial Transportation Department in 2022, the "motorcycle army" people who ride motorcycles to and from Guangxi, Guizhou and other places through Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, have shown a significant downward trend year by year since reaching a peak of about 1.1 million vehicles during the Spring Festival in 2013.
Nowadays, the high-speed rail and highway network are faster, and the number of motorcycle trips is gradually decreasing.
On January 26, the first day of the Spring Festival, migrant workers in Foshan filled up their fuel and set off on motorcycles to return home.
On the first day of the Spring Festival, at the Longshan gas station of Sinopec in Foshan, Pan Zhisheng participated in the "Warm Station" activity for free refueling. "I came from Xiaolan, Zhongshan, and before the epidemic, I would come here every year to refuel, and this tank of oil was just enough for me to drive to my hometown in Wuzhou, Guangxi. Pan Zhisheng told reporters, "My luggage is very small, and the big bags and small bags in the back seat are actually snacks for the four children to bring back." ”
Go home comfortably and safely, and return to work full of vitality
According to reports, Chongqing, Guangdong, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Dalian and other places have launched a series of pragmatic measures to help migrant workers return to their hometowns during the Spring Festival. For example, Chongqing Human Resources and Social Security has launched 12 heart-warming measures, involving employment services, travel services, rights and interests protection, care and assistance, etc.; Guangdong trade unions issued 20,000 free "safe return" subsidy coupons to migrant workers; The Hangzhou trade union issued 10,000 ticket subsidy exchange places to migrant workers; The Xi'an Trade Union, in cooperation with relevant units, opened a special train to return home to send migrant workers and new employment workers home for the New Year free of charge; The Dalian trade union, in conjunction with the municipal transportation department, provides migrant workers with services such as group ticket purchase and special car.
After a hard year, every migrant worker is looking forward to buying tickets smoothly and returning home safely. Although the current transportation capacity has been greatly improved compared with previous years, for migrant workers, getting their own tickets as soon as possible and minimizing travel expenses are their very specific needs. The warm-hearted services provided by the trade unions in various places for the return of migrant workers to their hometowns have undoubtedly played a great role in helping the majority of migrant workers to go home more quickly, safely, and money-saving, not only allowing them to "walk", but also enabling them to "go well", and sending them the real warmth and care of the trade unions.
One of the highlights of the above-mentioned measures launched by local trade unions is the use of digital means. Open the trade union's APP or applet, move your fingers to fill in a little bit, you can enjoy the convenience of the Spring Festival provided by the trade union, in today's widespread use of smart phones, this can not only make the trade union's services real-time and efficient delivery to the migrant workers, but also let the migrant workers know more about the trade union, and then get close to the trade union and join the trade union. It is through these seemingly subtle "little things" that the cohesion of the trade union is silently reflected, so that migrant workers can perceive that the trade union is with them "all the time, everywhere, and everything", and that the "mother's family" is by their side.
Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and other 10 departments jointly issued the "Notice on Carrying out the 2024 "Spring Warm Migrant Workers" Service Action" to make arrangements for the service guarantee of migrant workers during the Spring Festival. Doing a good job in travel services and sending migrant workers home safely and safely is part of a series of work of trade unions at all levels to serve migrant workers during the Spring Festival. In addition, key work such as the protection of the rights and interests of migrant workers, care and assistance, and employment services should also be promoted simultaneously.
For example, it is necessary to continue to further promote the winter special action on wage arrears to ensure that migrant workers can get their arrears of wages before they go home. It is necessary to supervise and guide employers to strengthen the protection of the labor rights and interests of migrant workers working outdoors in severe cold weather. It is necessary to intensify the investigation and resolution of risks and hidden dangers in the field of labor relations to avoid the occurrence of mass and extreme incidents. Care should be strengthened for migrant workers who spend the holidays on the spot, and their legitimate rights and interests such as rest and vacation should be safeguarded. For migrant workers who have returned to their hometowns, it is necessary to investigate and find out their family living conditions, carry out visits and condolences to unemployed migrant workers and migrant workers in difficulty, and promptly issue relief funds to eligible migrant workers in difficulty, so as to solve their sudden and urgent basic living difficulties. At the same time, it is necessary to make full use of the Spring Festival holiday to investigate and map the needs of migrant workers for skill improvement, strengthen vocational guidance services, guide migrant workers to improve their skill level and employability, and ensure that the return to work after the Spring Festival is basically stable.
Where the needs of the workers are, the services of the trade union will be extended. It is believed that under the escort of the meticulous and warm service of the trade union, migrant workers will be able to go home comfortably and safely, and return to work full of vitality.
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