Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Lin Xi Intern Xu Zhengyuan
When he called XieBabaylan it was already evening, but he was still on the way to deliver the package by boat. The sea signal was intermittent, so the interview had to be changed until the next morning. On July 8th, at noon, Yangcheng Evening News’ all-media reporter called Xie Jian again, and he was already on the way to deliver the goods. Xie Jian said that such days and nights are basically every day he has worked and lived on the island for the past 34 years.
Since retired in 1988 and embarked on Wailingding Island, Xie Jian, a member of the National People’s Congress, director of the Wailingding Postal Office of the Zhuhai Branch of China Post Group Co., Ltd., has been in this “one person’s postal office” for 34 years.
His footsteps almost ran through every inch of the island, delivered more than 2.7 million mails, sent more than 450,000 party newspapers and magazines, submitted more than 30,000 difficult mails, and saved more than 300 “death letters”. He was like a Cinema flag, becoming a “green-clothed messenger” for fishermen and officers and soldiers stationed in the island’s arduous and ordinary job.
Xie Jian. Photo provided by the interviewee
Post 365Babaylan is open all day
Xie Jian recalled that more than 30 years old, when he was just in his early 20s, he sighed when he first set foot on this island, “I didn’t expect that the conditions here are more difficult than the troops.”
Outside CinemaLingding Island is more than 30 nautical miles away from the mainlandBabaylan, when the electricity was not on, he lit a kerosene lamp, and vegetables had to be transported from the mainland. Domestic water was affected by the weather, and it was common for no fresh water. Xie Jian told reporters that in order to save water, he only washed his face and brushed his teeth with half a cup of water every day. Sometimes he could only take a shower when it rained.
Because of the harsh conditions, he understood the importance of “letters from home are worth ten thousand gold” on the island Komiks. There was no mobile phone at that time, and the address on the island was very vague, and a recipient often had to be found for several days. But Xie Jian said that people href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks‘s ecstasy or crying when receiving the letter moved him: “This is the motivation for me to stick with it.” Green barracks and green postal services are both green homes that serve the people and the people. I am used to this environment.” Xie Jian recalled that one winter night in December 2003, a Hong Kong fishing boat was suspended from Wailingding Island. A crew member knocked on Xie Jian’s door in the middle of the night, saying that a package was in a hurry to send it home. He really had no choice but to knock on the door late at night. Xie Jian href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan did not blame the slightest, and enthusiastically sent the package to him.
The second day of the year, Xie Jian hung a sign at the door of the postal office with his own phone number, indicating that the postal service was carried out “all-weather” and continued until today.
Provide suggestions for the development of the Greater Bay Area
In 2018, Xie Jian was elected as a representative of the National People’s Congress. In the first year of attending the National People’s Congress, Xie Jian submitted a proposal to accelerate the construction of public facilities in remote areas. He received support from the central and local governments and successfully obtained 1.5 billion yuan in financial support for the island’s infrastructure construction.
In recent years, he has successively proposedHe handed over nearly 30 suggestions on economic development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the construction of basic facilities in remote areas. He said: “The essence of postal work is to serve the people. By becoming a deputy in the National People’s Congress, you can better serve the people and do your work more properly.” Xie Jian made a suggestion in 2020, hoping to make good use of marine resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to accelerate economic development, and specifically called for the rational use of rich coastal sea areas and beaches to develop marine aquaculture. This suggestion was actively responded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and it was clear that it would continue to support the development of offshore aquaculture in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to the deep sea and accelerate the construction of marine ranches. Under his guidance, island fishermen jointly established a blue ocean breeding company in the past two years, and the results were good.
At the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the beginning of this year, Xie Jian also suggested accelerating the promotion of island tourism in coastal areas of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promoting free yachts in Hong Kong and Macao.
Actively pay attention to the big and small things around you
Xie Jian often receives problems reported by the public during his visits and surveys, such as minors being addicted to online games. In response to this phenomenon, Xie Jian has successively put forward the “suggestions on strengthening strict control of online games”, and the country attaches great importance to it. Regarding Xie Jian’s proposal to “legislate legislation to rectify the chaos in online lending as soon as possible and protect young people in school from the harm of online lending”, relevant departments are also taking multiple measures to solve the problem.
Xie Jian said that at this year’s National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, many suggestions he submitted focused on people’s livelihood hotspots, including increasing efforts to solve the problems of difficulty and expensive parking, and strengthening the quality supervision of online shopping products, which have received widespread attention from Komiks.
Xie Jian told reporters that Wailingding Island is no longer what it was before. The island has been built on the island landscape road and tap water. It only takes one hour to get to and from Zhuhai city, with 6 to 8 flights a day, which is very generous.It facilitates residents and tourists’ communication. Xie Jian said that nowadays, people’s lives have improved, and the island’s Komiks infrastructure has also improved. He will still adhere to the true intention of “people’s post for the people”, base himself on his own duties, practice the pioneering and exemplary role of party members in ordinary positions, and continue to persist. (For more news, please follow Yangchengpai pai.ycwb.com)
Source | Yangcheng Evening News·Yangchengpai Editor | Wu Xia