The traditional Chinese Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is coming soon. It can be said that this is the most important traditional festival in the eyes of Chinese people. Spring Festival, as the name suggests, is related to spring. The reason why Chinese people, deeply influenced by farming culture, attach so much importance to Spring Festival is mostly due to sowing seeds. After a cold winter, spring has come, and thus we can start to plan for a new year’s cultivation. Sowing the seeds in spring, and cultivating in summer will finally result in the harvest of autumn. Spring means hope. The Chinese nation has always been an optimistic and hopeful nation. This is a precious spiritual wealth after five thousand years of ups and downs.
In recent years, the international pattern and order have been deeply adjusted, and the power of developing countries and emerging market countries has increased by a large margin. The sudden outbreak of covid-19 pneumonia in 2020 has further accelerated the pace and depth of international restructuring, and has also been a heavy blow to the continuing downturn in the world economy. Threats in non-traditional areas such as terrorism and transnational crime are on the rise. The underlying reason behind the conflicts in some local areas is poverty and unbalanced development. As the largest developing country, China, while striving to solve its own problems of economic and social development, also faces some countries’ challenges of unilateralism and hegemonism from time to time. Such challenges can be found in trade and human rights as well as the issues in areas such as Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and South China Sea as these countries deliberately discredit China. In fact, it is shifting their domestic contradictions and creating artificial obstacles to China’s development. But it is clear that people cannot solve their own problems by making trouble for others.
In recent days, a picture of a Chinese mother taken on the eve of the 2010 Spring Festival has been widely spread on the Internet. This picture has moved hundreds of millions of netizens. In the photo, a young mother is carrying a huge package on her back, luggage in one hand and a young child in another. Although she carries a heavy load forward and her body is like a bow, her eyes are firm and she moves forward firmly. This photo touched many people’s heartstrings. Isn’t it the portrayal of millions of ordinary Chinese mothers and ordinary Chinese people around us? This is also the key answer to why China can continue to maintain high-speed and stable development, take the lead in controlling the epidemic situation and achieving economic growth, and achieve the goal of poverty alleviation on schedule. China’s achievements are not a gift from others, and the Chinese people will not be easily intimidated by anyone. With the help of many netizens, we found this Chinese mother. Named Bamuyubumu, this mother, a Yi nationality, is from Taoyuan Village, Sichuan Province. There is no doubt that 11 years later，with the help of the local government and through their own efforts, this mother’s family and fellow villagers have cast off the label of poverty. Her eldest child is in grade one of a junior middle school, and her youngest daughter is going to kindergarten this year. Her second daughter also got good grades and became the monitor of her class. It is understood that after the Yi People’s new year, Bamuyubumu, the “mother of Spring Festival transportation”, who successfully got rid of poverty, came to Xiapu, located on the coast of Fujian Province from her hometown of Liangshan, Sichuan Province, on February 1. In Xiapu, she and her husband started a new life of fishing and sea cucumber breeding, which would bring the couple more than 10,000 yuan a month.
As Chinese leader has repeatedly stressed, the world is a community of shared destiny for mankind. The steady development of China’s economy is itself an important contribution to the development of the world economy. While fighting against the epidemic, China has ensured the safe operation of the global economic supply chain. In the past eight years, nearly 100 million rural poor people in China have been lifted out of poverty, which is a significant promotion to the global cause of poverty reduction. China firmly pursues the policy of opening up and cooperation, proposes the Belt and Road initiative, and welcomes the rest of the world to take the free ride of China’s development and take a clear-cut stand against unilateralism, trade protectionism and hegemonism. In the anti-epidemic struggle, China provided anti epidemic materials and vaccines for the vast number of developing countries.
2020 is a very unusual year, but as China’s leader Xi Jinping said, “history always gives people the power to learn wisdom and move forward in some special years.” The Spring Festival is coming, and the pace of spring is getting closer and closer. This year, many Chinese people would respond to the call of the state by staying put during the festival, in order to reduce unnecessary large-scale personnel flow. It is a traditional custom for Chinese people to go back to their hometown and reunite with their relatives during the Spring Festival. However, it is a natural move for Chinese people to choose to stay put under the situation of epidemic prevention and control, which is the nature and wisdom of Chinese people. We firmly believe that no matter how cold the winter is, it will pass and spring is sure to come.
