There was no money to immigrate yesterday.

July 30th, 200 1 year is an unforgettable day for 68 farmers in Zhen 'an and Houba towns.

On this day, the motorcade consisting of 50 military vehicles and 10 square vehicles, with the wings of hope, rushed to Weiyuan and Lezhi counties in Sichuan.

On this day, 325 immigrants will take the 10 sleeper bus and leave their ancestral hometown of Kaixian County, Chongqing. Journalists and immigrants, from emigration to emigration, heard and heard, not only felt the warmth of the party's immigration policy, but also realized the hardships of local governments and migrant workers, and had a deeper understanding of hardworking and simple rural immigrants.

Give up your family, take care of everyone and contribute to the Three Gorges Project!

Millions of immigrants, from slogan to action, from A to B, from hometown to other places, farmers hang their emotions on their faces and bury them in their hearts: during the loading interval, I am worried to find that the hands of the householders are shaking and touching, and their eyes are straight; On the way to say goodbye, I was surprised to see towards the distant, an old woman on crutches, praying with her eyes closed. At the farewell ceremony, although the gongs and drums were loud, firecrackers were jubilant, and the speeches of the officials of the immigrant district government were full of passion, I only read two words from the eyes of the participants: tragic.

Arrived in Kaixian County on the afternoon of 29th. Zhu Zhanquan, director of the Immigration Office, arranged for me to stay and leave immediately, saying that he would go to the Liu Bocheng Memorial Hall at 5 o'clock to hold the first military vehicle for transporting immigrants. Peng Xiaodong of Kaizhou Times in this county is an acquaintance. I pleaded with Chen, secretary of the Party Committee of the Immigration Bureau, and asked him to interview my colleagues. Secretary Chen readily agreed, but asked us to separate: he went to Zhen 'an, and then I immigrated to Lezhi County. It is said that more information will be collected and the situation will be more comprehensive.

Guests can do whatever they want. About Peng Xiaodong to go to the meeting at four o' clock, wait until half past seven, military vehicles to slowly. The person in charge was about to have a meeting when it suddenly rained cats and dogs, so the ceremony had to be cancelled. I didn't expect it to rain so hard that it didn't stop all night. When I looked at the window in the morning, I felt terrible. There is a rain leak in Kaixian County, and the immigrants may not be able to leave today (the locals are fighting drought and don't want to rain suddenly).

At about 8 o'clock, I called Lao Zhu and said I wanted to visit the immigrant's home. Lao Zhu said that the back dam could not walk, and the bridge was washed away by the rising water of the river dam. You can't get through, and neither can the motorcade over there. Go to Zhen' an town if you want to see it. I said, well, I want to see it wherever it is.

So, Lao Zhu sent a car to take me to Zhen' an Town Government in the rain.

You can go to the town immigration office to find out that villagers in several nearby villages have demolished their homes and moved their furniture to the roadside or relatives and friends' homes. Mayor Luo, who is in charge of immigration work, said that the dam was flooded and the ship could not pass. It kept raining, and several immigrants and military vehicles blocked the other side of the river. It's really urgent. After a while, Chen from the Immigration Bureau came. He called the county leader with his mobile phone, reported that the rain had not stopped yesterday afternoon, and requested to send an assault boat to prevent floods. In the afternoon, the rain finally stopped. Seeing the military vehicles with scattered furniture returning to Zhen 'an town one after another to spread out the "one" snake array, the people at the farewell ceremony were emotional and busy moving the venue originally planned for the conference room outside.

After lunch, people gathered in front of the town government. At 1, men, women and children in Zhen' an Town witnessed "the first transport of military vehicles in Kaixian County to bid farewell to foreign population" with mixed feelings. The secretary of the county party Committee and the representative of a Red Army Division in Chengdu Military Region delivered a warm speech, followed by the speech of the immigrant representative. In contrast, the immigration representative's speech is even more touching-even though he is also scripted.

After a short ceremony of half an hour, the immigrant military vehicle drove from the hillside of the venue to the corner. Specially hired wind bands played music heartily, and people on both sides of the street applauded and waved goodbye to the soldiers.

Slowly, slowly, the military vehicles left people's sight with the blessings and thoughts of their hometown relatives.

After the meeting, the people in the meeting were reluctant to leave for a long time. ...

According to the plan, the migration and relocation convoys are separated. The usual practice is: the truck goes first, and a few hours later, the bus carrying immigrants leaves home. Went to Zhen' an town to watch the fun. After the ceremony, I should say goodbye to Peng Xiaodong and go back to Houba Town. Xiaodong is in his prime and writes well. I believe that he will follow the immigrants to Weiyuan this time and will certainly write a wonderful report.

After the dam river has not subsided, it still can't pass, so we have to wait in the county immigration office and chat with Zhu. He has been a director for several years and is familiar with the situation of immigrants in the county. He said that Kaixian County has outstanding people and enjoyed the reputation of "the hometown of raising children" in the past. The county seat is a rare big town in eastern Sichuan, with a permanent population of 65438+ 10,000. There are two rivers around the county seat, with gentle terrain, which is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. The population of the county is more than 65,438 +0.5 million. Because the county seat and many towns and villages are below the water level, the immigrant population in this county also exceeds 50,000. Only 9,000 people have been resettled, and the county planning has been completed 1 10,000.

Speaking of the hardships of migrant workers, Zhu Zhanquan listed many touching examples emotionally. He told me that at the end of June this year, the county held a report meeting on immigrant deeds, and 12 spokespersons headed by Chen gave a report on their own experiences on the stage, which made the participants burst into tears. Lao Zhu said that such an emotional meeting, such a touching scene, such a meeting that inspires people's fighting spirit and enhances people's sense of mission and responsibility is probably unprecedented in Kaixian County. This is because: Kaixian immigration is unprecedented!

After dinner, Liu Yongliang, director of the Immigration Bureau, and I took a Mitsubishi SUV to Houba to check the loading situation. At this time, the river has subsided and the river can be opened to traffic. Before arriving at their destination, most immigrants have boarded sleeper buses, and most military vehicles are ready to go. Unexpectedly, a small problem happened temporarily, but it was also a big difficulty: five families who had refused to move changed their minds at 3 pm and were willing to accompany them. Now we have to temporarily call the local car, the sleeper is full, and we have to requisition vehicles from the transportation bureau to transport the remaining 20 people.

This toss has disrupted the original plan to leave at 8 o'clock. The motorcade drove through the county to the suburban gas station, waiting for the special car sent by the transportation bureau, and didn't really hit the road until 10 at night. Because of the command vehicle, Director Liu led the team, accompanied by Director Zhao, who is in charge of Sichuan relocation of Chongqing Immigration Bureau, and Wang Jun, chief of the urban relocation section of the bureau. The driver, surnamed Xiao, was alert and said that he had followed his boss for tens of thousands of kilometers this year. Before the motorcade left, their four mobile phones kept ringing, either telling this one to pay attention to safety or telling that one how to coordinate, which deeply touched me.

On the way, I had the following conversation with Director Liu Yongliang: "Director, is it difficult to be the first?"

"Angry yo. Great responsibility and psychological pressure. You see, we are too busy to get on the road until now. Along the way, it will pass through ten counties and cities of Kaijiang, Liangping, Dianjiang, Changshou, Chongqing, Bishan, Weinan and Anyue, with a distance of 1000 kilometers. Something is wrong. "

"How old are the children at home? Is it a daughter or a boy? "

"Baby girl, 14 years old, in Grade 2!"

"Do you care about your children's studies?"

"Who cares? Hey ... I can't control it if I want to. Fortunately, my wife is in the Environmental Protection Bureau, unlike me. "

"Don't you complain that you have neglected your family for a long time?"

"Hatred-how can you not complain? Whoever doesn't complain, I will! "

"Madam can understand you, right?"

"Understand. This job is destined to pay more and more than others. We are immigrants, aren't farmers who have left their homes human? It should be said that they complain more than we do. To tell the truth and do immigration work, we must first learn to suffer indignities, suffer hardships and even be beaten and scolded! But we ... what can I say? First of all, you are party member, a national civil servant. It is our duty to do everything possible to solve problems for immigrants. When the government hands over the immigrants to us, it should do the work patiently and carefully, send them safely to the resettlement sites, and leave a special working group to do the aftermath ... immigrants are living people, not wood or stone, and move as they say. You see, the total number of people I brought today is only 33 households 149. It's hard to go from yesterday to now ... "

It is difficult to return, but the spirit of a grassroots immigrant cadre has been reflected in my heart.

Near zero, the motorcade arrived at Lishi Town, Kaijiang County, and some immigrants stopped to eat: in the afternoon, they were busy moving furniture and getting on the bus, and all the villagers had no time to add their stomachs. The three Chongqing Evening News reporters who accompanied them to Houba Town were also hungry. Director Liu and his party arranged for the immigrants to have dinner, and then drove to Qiao Qi Town, liangping county, where half of the immigrants stopped for dinner. In this way, the command vehicle looked ahead and stopped, and the motorcade ran from dark to dawn, and finally arrived at the hometown of Marshal Chen Yi-Lezhi County, Sichuan Province at 3 1 morning 10: 40.

The county town is small, and the buildings and streets are not trendy enough, but the atmosphere is quite warm. Before the motorcade arrived, I heard drums and music, the car approached the venue, the yangko team with thick makeup danced, Lezhi County had put down the handover ceremony, and multi-level cadres came forward with a big smile.

The handover ceremony was short, cheerful and lively. The immigrants were lying in their cars overlooking the venue, and two words overflowed their eyes: expectation. I'm looking forward to getting off the car early and walking into my new home early.

I pay special attention to the numbers of township cadres who have moved in. They all hold rosters in their hands, and together with the township cadres who have moved out, they call the names of the heads of households one by one and hand them over to their counterparts; Later, the cadres who moved in led the new partners in the village to take various cars rented from all over the country.

If you are idle by car, you will run around. Lezhi County is divided into three towns according to the resettlement situation of Houba Town in Lezhi County. The immigrants told the women to follow the leader into the car and disappeared. It's too late to ask the number of households in each township, and it's too late to ask the immigrants how they feel when they come to a new place. Like a blink of an eye, they all disappeared without a trace.

Fortunately, I know where they are going.

At 3 pm, I followed the leaders of Sichuan Immigration Office and Lezhi County to drive to Tianchi Township to visit immigrants. When I arrived at the resettlement site, I deliberately fell behind and stayed at the entrance of Zhujiajian.

Here are two families, door to door, the house is a two-story structure, and the facade is tiled, which looks quite imposing. Walking in, there are many rooms upstairs and downstairs, and there are parapets, toilets, pigsty and pools in the backyard, which gives people the impression that the owner's economic strength is not weak and he is quite calculating. Unfortunately, the furniture hasn't arrived yet, and the house seems to be surrounded by walls and empty.

The shopkeeper is nearly 40 years old, lean and looks very old, but he doesn't look like an honest farmer. Upon inquiry, two brothers, *** 10, moved in to build a house together, so that they could take care of each other.

He proudly told me that he built the house himself.

Walk to the door. I asked him how big the housing area was, and he said it was more than 300 square meters. Asked how much he spent, he squinted and smiled: "Not much, not expensive".

Just then, a sleepy woman came out of the room. He introduced: "This is my wife".

I asked, "Sister Zhu, is this your first visit?" She replied, "Yes".

I asked again, "From my hometown where I have lived for many years, I came all the way to my new home. What did you think when I first saw your house? "

She replied lazily, "The house feels ok." But there is no shortage of electricity or water, and we will live in the future. I'm annoyed. I don't know if the dead man's head is possessed, so I chose such a terrible place. "

"How can there be no electricity?" I'm surprised. "Yes, wow, it's like a ghost fire." The woman glared at her husband.

The husband quickly explained: "The voltage is low, there is no transformer in the village, and I can't watch TV at night."

"What about water? Why is there no water? " I am anxious to ask.

"Poor sand, I heard that there is no river in this county. It has been working here for a long time, and it is said that it comes once in a hundred years. Ponds and fields have long since dried up. "

My heart sank after listening to his words.

Houba Town in Kaixian County is a land of plenty. How can immigrants survive without electricity and water when they move here? Now the relocation is completed, but it seems that the situation is not optimistic.

There are three new houses around the corner from Zhujiajian Island. Three households side by side, rough cement walls, white slate. It seems that the economic conditions of these three households are far less than those of the Zhu brothers. The cadres bossed around an old man. I guess they must have listened to the old man's complaints. From a distance, I lost interest in getting close to them.

In this way, the cadres turned back. On the way, Director Liu saw that I was depressed and asked, "What do you think of seeing this place?"

I asked, "Do you want to hear the truth or the lie?"

"Of course it's true!"

I said, "The geographical conditions are poor. It seems that the transformation of rural power grid in Lezhi County has not yet started. I am afraid that new immigrants will be unhappy when they come. "

Director Liu sighed: "To be honest, I feel very uncomfortable when I read this. The person in charge of Lailezhi resettlement in Kaixian County is not responsible, and the resettlement site has not been selected! "

What can I say when he comments like this?

When I came to Peacock Township, the reporter was bright and refreshed.

Peacock township government is located in a small town with dilapidated houses, but along both sides of the highway, two rows of two-story small buildings have been built in turn, forming a new street. There are 43 people in Houba Town 10 households in Kaixian County. The new houses are located here, one by one, very beautiful. When the new immigrants saw my visit, they all looked very happy and kept talking around me. In the warm atmosphere, what I feel most is the gratitude of the immigrants to the receiving government, especially the township leaders.

How fast! At the same time when the county leaders came to visit the immigrants, the township cadres had given a stack of brand-new household registration books to the immigrant Xu Xinmin, asking him to distribute them on his behalf. Xu Xinmin is 36 years old and uneducated. He works in Guangdong all the year round. This time he moved back on purpose. He said he would go to Guangdong when it was arranged here. There are four people in his family. The eldest daughter 10 years old and the little boy is only one and a half years old. He was fined more than 7000 yuan for giving birth to a son. He said that he was nominally a farmer, but he was not used to staying in the countryside to grow crops.

Compared with the immigrants in Tianchi Township, there is obviously no shortage of water and electricity here. James Wang, a 59-year-old immigrant, told me quietly: "Look, the cement pole in front of the door is a line specially used by the township government for us. The leaders here treat us as relatives! "

The king said, he, his wife, his two daughters and son-in-law, and his grandchildren are here. He lives in the same apartment as his youngest daughter, and so does his eldest daughter. The two families are next to each other. Because the house is in urgent need of repair and the downstairs is wet, I can only live upstairs first. The new house covers an area of nearly140m2, and the unified building standard is 230 yuan/m2. The window is made of aluminum alloy, and the door is built upstairs. There are two large rolling gates on the first floor, and the unilateral price is also more than 1000 yuan.

I asked him how much it always costs to build a house. Lao Wang said with a smile: "More than 30,000, not expensive. The owner of this house didn't make any money. " Just then, the landlord came. When I asked him what it was, the boss said frankly, "The township leaders take special care of this 10 immigrant house and are not allowed to engage in black-hearted money. So I didn't focus on making money. "

I joked, "Are you willing to do business at a loss?" The boss smiled: "There are many ways to make money. Why not hang yourself from a tree? "

I also smiled: "Boss, you are a thief, so you can catch big fish with a long line-right?"

The boss gave me a hand: "Thank you for your kind words. Doing business is natural. You don't make money here, you can make money elsewhere! "

From the boss's mouth, it is true that it is business, but from the issue of building houses for immigrants alone, it is not difficult to see that the local government leaders are really smart and do practical things for immigrants, which is very political! When I met Li, a stocky secretary of the township party committee, I asked them if they still had the receiving task. He smiled and said, "No, not much, just 10 households. We have overfulfilled the task. "

Proud and proud beyond words. I admire such township cadres. He is concerned about the sufferings of immigrants, who are well known. I think it is not easy to live alone and live in the praise of ordinary people. I hope there will be more and more such township officials in the Three Gorges resettlement area.

At 5: 30 in the afternoon, the military vehicles carrying furniture arrived, and 10 immigrants immediately became lively. Every household hangs red silk on the door and sticks "earth red" in front of it. Wang's little daughter flew up, took a chicken from the house and rushed out to kill it, throwing chicken blood in front of the door.

When the military vehicles turned around in turn and landed in front of the immigrants' homes, the rumbling firecrackers suddenly sounded. Soldiers and householders are scrambling to lift the hood, unload the car and take the furniture home-I can't take pictures, but in the face of this situation, I can't help but lift the broken camera I carry with me.

I think my photography skills may be poor, but the friendship between immigrants and their children is real, so these photos have real value.

I think people's memory is limited. With the passage of time, these real images will be made into a monument in the tragic history of the Three Gorges immigrants-a monument without words!