Red Star Over China (2) three years ago
Xinjiang city of Kashgar in western China's most
The years 1997-2000, a period of impressive
January 15, 2000, Urumqi Tianshan Hotel
Hotel on the second floor conference room is being held a "farewell will be the first Yuanjiang cadres," a lively atmosphere, more than 200 from Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Henan, eight provinces and municipalities Yuanjiang cadres the meeting hall, wearing red flowers sat満; the Xinjiang Autonomous Regional Party Committee, government, people's congresses, CPPCC Xinjiang and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps leaders seated on the rostrum.
11 am, the meeting officially began. The Moderator, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, deputy secretary of the Standing Committee Zhou Shengtao opening speech: "Today's grand send-off in the first batch of Yuan Jiang cadres returned to the Mainland, the first asked all to stand and work in Xinjiang comrades lost their lives during the silence!"
The venue a solemn, people's feelings a long time can not be calm.
As the harsh living conditions in Xinjiang, social environment, complicated and dangerous, backward medical conditions, more than 200 cadres from the Mainland, Yuan Jiang, in the Xinjiang three years of work are subject to severe physical and psychological tests, and many cadres suffered from a variety of diseases, some terminally ill (with two people suffering from cancer), and even sacrificed their precious lives.
Let us remember that their bar! Certain departmental-level cadres from Beijing, Jin Jiang before work would have good health, Jin Jiang, after increasing pressure due to work-life, just entering middle age due to ineffective treatment and died of a heart attack ; from Zhejiang cadre of young Yuan Jiang Wang Li, in Xinjiang's Hotan Prefecture most difficult work, due to poor living conditions suffered from hepatitis, the local medical conditions and backward condition deteriorated rapidly so that the latter help to Urumqi, the Xinjiang Military District Hospital by helicopter , but gave up his 28-year-old died a young life, his pregnant wife, Yuan Jiang has more than six months when he died the child does not満years!
The three years 1997-2000, more than 1,000 days and nights, we are away from home, away from their loved ones, suffer from loneliness and solitude, and are subject of "natural disasters" the dangers and hardships. Can be said that has withstood the test of life and death, the baptism of blood and fire!
Three years, has experienced more than a magnitude 6 earthquake 10 times more than magnitude 4 earthquake felt hundreds of times; three years, a very small number of ethnic separatism and religious extremists (in East Turkistan separatists master) in Xinjiang have created dozens of cases of violence and terrorism, which alone in the Kashi region is 30 times the incident created an explosion, poisoning, killing a dozen cases; this during the 1997 handover of Macao in 1999 Congress return to the cross-century in 2000, it was a time when the international situation is changing, they shouting out: "96 years of hands-on, 97 years, go all out, by the year 2000 Xinjiang independence," "Hong Kong, Macao, Xinjiang independence "...... It can be said, we are troubled times came to a contentious region!
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Author: hcw1969
