In the last month of 2022, a special courier was sent from Aksu, Xinjiang, more than 4,000 kilometers away, to the Zhejiang Freshwater and Fisheries Research Institute. “Comrades, the apple of love of Aksu has arrived!” Hao Guijie, secretary of the first branch of science and technology of Zhejiang Freshwater and Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute, excitedly informed everyone in the branch group. It turned out that in order to help rural revitalization, the first branch of science and technology participated in the “I Have a Tree Grows in Aksu” public welfare assistance activity sponsored by the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Provincial Forestry Bureau, and the Zhejiang Provincial Xinjiang Aid Headquarters. After waiting for more than half a year, the apple trees adopted by the branch finally bore fruit, and boxes of sweet rock candy heart apples crossed the “thousands of rivers and thousands of mountains” and reached the hands of the branch members.
Located on the northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang’s Aksukeke Ya area has a fragile ecological environment, is at the forefront of desertification and salinization, and is also a key source of wind and sand in Xinjiang. In order to improve the ecological environment, since 2020, the “I Have a Tree Grows in Aksu” Zhejiang Public Welfare Aid to Xinjiang to Help Farmers and Farmers has planted more than 20,000 fruit trees in the Aksuke Keya area, and the trickle of love has gathered into patches of green in the northwest frontier of the motherland, soaking the endless Gobi desert.
Last year, Hao Guijie, secretary of the first branch of science and technology, accidentally learned about the public welfare activity during a listening to the radio, and immediately mobilized the branch members to participate in the public welfare planting activity through the method of “cloud planting trees” and jointly adopted an apple tree. This year, the love has been continued, and the adopted apple trees have also changed from one to two. Now, looking at the boxes of loving apples sent by Xinjiang fruit farmers, the branch members are deeply encouraged and enthusiastic, and they have said that the power of a tree is very small, but 10,000 mu of forest can make the land green again, “I have a tree growing in Aksu” insist on industrial aid to Xinjiang, help farmers and help farmers, we, as party members, will give full play to our exemplary pioneer role, continue to take the lead in participating in the “cloud planting trees” activity, and “add bricks and tiles” to promote Aksu fruit farmers to increase income and improve the environment of Aksu, and “Xinjiang” will be carried out beautifully to the end!
(Source: Zhejiang Freshwater and Fisheries Research Institute)