Jia's transformation of barren hills not only restored the local natural environment, but also found a way out for the local economic development. She absorbed more than 20 farmers to participate in the greening cause, so that they had a stable income and solved the problems of food and clothing for them and schooling for their children. On June 20, 2005, Jia died of illness in the "Guizhen Garden" in Qingshan Mountain. She is single and has no children. She devoted her last days and all her savings to greening barren hills. Her deeds were reported in China People's Broadcasting Station, China Environment News, People's China and the Internet, which aroused strong social repercussions.
In the early 1980s, Jia resigned from school and went to Shenzhen to do business. In the early 1990s, Jia returned to Beijing to set up a logistics company, and his business was booming. Just as Jia's career was steadily rising, she was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid disease, whole body pain and joint deformation. Jia is a person who pays attention to life. She always feels that the air quality in the city is not good and the food hygiene is not guaranteed. Especially after she was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid disease, she always wanted to find a "paradise", raise a chicken, grow some fruits and vegetables, and the family could have a place to relax on weekends. 1994, Jia decided to give up the business that had been on the right track after learning the news of the regulations on the lease of barren hills and wasteland owned by rural collectives in Beijing. She found her brother Jia and told her that she wanted to rent a barren hill in the suburbs and live a "pastoral life". This was Jia's original intention of renting barren hills at that time.
What really made Jia embark on the road of environmental protection was a news report. 1994 A foreigner said in an interview in China, "You China people have no awareness of environmental protection at all. You only know that cutting trees wastes resources, and no one wants to plant trees. " This made Jia quite annoyed. She said that she would take the lead in planting trees. Since then, Jia has asked her friends to help her find information about barren hills. On the one hand, it is to fulfill my dream for many years, and at the same time, I hope to change the image that "China people can only cut down trees" through afforestation.
Every weekend from 1995, whenever he is free, Jia will accompany Jia to visit the barren hills in various suburbs. After several years, they went to many places, but they never found the right one. 1998, on the second day of the first month, a friend told Jia Shunyi that there was a barren hill in Longwantun Town. She immediately made an appointment with her brother to get there. At that time, the mountain was bare and desolate at first glance. She asked the local villagers that 50 years ago it was still a virgin forest. "Since it used to be a virgin forest, I have the confidence to restore it to a virgin forest." On the same day, Jia decided to invest 3 million yuan to rent this barren mountain of more than 3,000 mu.
After signing the lease agreement with the local town government, Jia paid the rent for 70 years and gradually sold his company's assets. Then he began to measure the land, build houses and buy trees. 1October, 1998, 165438, Jia moved to the foot of the mountain, and named this place "returning to the original garden", which means returning to nature. In order to save money, Jia cultivated saplings himself. The newly planted saplings are only a few centimeters high. Because the barren hills were seriously short of water, she hired several workers to water them. It took four workers three months to water it once.
1March, 1998, Jia got up early every day to inspect along the mountain, although he could not take part in tree planting due to physical reasons. It's time to water the trees, feed the chickens, go to industry and commerce and pay taxes. He hasn't been idle all day. At that time, many friends came to Shunyi and saw this barren mountain, saying that it was obviously a rocky mountain and that Jia was crazy. Jia invited an expert. According to the analysis of experts, this is the landform of Cosman, and there is rich water vapor under the stones.
From 1999 to 2002, due to the aggravation of illness, the wheelchair became Jia's means of transportation. Many times, she is in a wheelchair, pushing to the mountains to guide workers to plant every tree. At the worst time, she was lying on the sofa and couldn't move. The workers had to wrap her in a quilt and work in the mountains. But in those years, 6.5438+0.4 million saplings were cultivated under the mountain and transplanted to the mountain one after another. In order to solve the watering problem, she also invested in building a100t water tower on the mountain. Jia's more than ten methods of building a water tower were rejected one by one. Finally, he brainstormed and built a high water tower with an altitude of 170 meters by using the "trackless balanced feeding method". Without integral casting equipment, they worked continuously for 36 hours entirely by their hands. This is unimaginable for modern urbanites.
These barren hills are the result of logging for nearly a hundred years. They put on Jia's green clothes bit by bit. The saplings are still young and grow slowly, but the fragmentation and weathering of the mountain have been covered with fur. In the first year of greening, some birds came to settle down and she fed them. As a result, the number of birds suddenly increased in the second year.
A few years later, many animals settled in full of green, a barren mountain and a barren hill. However, the "Guizhen Garden" has only input and almost no output, and Jia has economic difficulties. The annual maintenance cost of 6.5438+0.4 million seedlings will exceed 6.5438+0.0 million. A few years later, Jia spent all his savings. According to statistics, Jia invested more than 5.8 million yuan in "Guizhen Garden" before his death, nearly half of which was borrowed from others.
In the second half of 2002, the second phase development plan of "Guizhen Garden" was issued: 1 1,000 hectares of ecological forest, a large-scale ecological breeding base and an environmental education center that can accommodate 200 people. According to the budget, Jia needs to raise tens of millions of yuan to complete this huge development plan. At this time, Jia's health is getting worse and worse, and the daily maintenance of "Guizhen Garden" is also in a difficult situation.
In 2002, Jia won the "Ford Motor Environmental Protection Award". At that time, she was introduced at the award ceremony: Inspired by the accusation that "China people don't engage in environmental protection", Jia devoted all his personal wealth and hard work to the green cause. Over the years, Jia has never asked the state for a penny, occupied an acre of cultivated land, enjoyed any preferential policies, and closed mountains to facilitate afforestation, planting more than 65,438+10,000 trees. The winning organization wrote in her "reasons for winning" column: "Jia's personality and practices are very shocking. It is of great significance for social development and environmental protection to extend the personal behavior of greening barren hills to rational management of barren hills resources, inspire people to mobilize the power of cities, inject advanced technology and management into barren hills construction, reduce the burden on the government, and increase the intensity and pace of accelerating ecological construction. "
On June 20, 2005, Jia died due to the deterioration of his condition. Jia was always a lively person before his death, but he lived in seclusion in such an isolated place for the sake of that barren mountain. She was single when she died.
In the past seven years, Jia has covered the barren hills with green, and the vegetation on the slopes of three ditches, four beams and eight sides has been restored. Some places are already lush, and birds are thrown into the forest. There are now more than 200 nearly extinct wild ring-necked pheasants in China. Many kinds of wild birds, such as magpies, goshawks, kites and owls 10, have also settled here, and the silent barren hills are full of vitality. The chickens raised in "Guizhen Garden" are also natural, and they can easily fly from the ground to a tree more than one person high. Free-range eggs, which are very expensive in the city, are the daily food for three meals here. The apples in the "Guizhen Garden" are all green, and no chemical fertilizers and pesticides are applied, no hormones and auxins are sprayed, and mountain spring irrigation is used for ecological pest control.
On the night before Jia's death, she also had a phone conversation with her brother and sister-in-law who were far away from home to discuss the matter of cultivating saplings. The day after Jia was buried, many people came to collect debts. Today's "Guizhen Garden" is basically run by Jia. Jia needs to consider not only the huge debt left by her sister, but also the sustainable development of "Guizhenyuan". Because he knows that no matter how hard it is, he is reluctant to push his sister's hard castle peak to others. Jia clearly remembers how his beautiful sister worked miracles in the past seven years. Jia hasn't been down the mountain for seven years. It takes 20 days to water hundreds of thousands of trees on the mountain. When you are seriously ill, you can't hold things with your hands, and you can't even stand up from the stool. Every bird on the mountain is fed by Jia, a frail woman with several workers.
On June 26th, 2005, 10, Jia was selected as the first "Top Ten Outstanding People of Environmental Protection in China".
"When I heard a figure that a person needs to use 0.7 tons of toilet paper in 20 years, which is equivalent to consuming 15 big trees, I sprouted the ideal of planting trees." "At half past eight, I walked into the office and built it on the barren hill where I was changing. When it rains on cloudy days, I will immerse myself in the bathtub and look at the changing sky and swaying trees outside the window. The wind stopped after the snow, so I took my dog to the mountains to warm the sun. The snow in winter sets off the young trees all over the mountain. After sunset, the mountain wind rises, which is the time to ride a horse. Because of this illness, I can only sit by the pond. My dog Xiaocui accompanied me to see how Xia Guang gilded the horse at the moment it passed. " "When the rooster sings early, get up, take a shower, go out, sit on the porch in front of the mid-levels house, drink a cup of new tea, and watch the picturesque countryside evaporate like mist in the sunshine last night. Climbing to the top of the East Mountain, the sun looked at my breakfast: freshly squeezed milk, newborn eggs, and fresh fruits soaked in the cold last night. Often accompany me, and the bird that landed on the wire. Suddenly, as if the golden light of the sun flashed in its eyes, it flew away like an arrow and disappeared. At the end of the field, there is a Dai-like forest, behind which is the city where I have lived for too long. " "At that time, I thought food safety was too important, so I just wanted to get a piece of land and grow it myself. And all along, I think as a person, I should also have an explanation for nature, plant some pollution-free vegetables and raise some chickens, even if I die. After going up the mountain, we found that our understanding of barren mountain resources is really lacking. Those of us who claim to love nature actually don't know much about nature. You really don't know what nature can give you. So, I began to pay a lot, and time passed little by little. I found that as long as you live with nature, it will never let you down. "