Who can define your life? Who can define what contemporary youth looks like?
In 1915, Chen Duxiu, who returned from Japan, founded the magazine "New Youth" in order to appeal to aspiring young people to actively save the country, and wrote a founding statement full of idealistic enthusiasm: "Youth are like Early spring is like the morning sun, like the sprouting of flowers, like the new growth of a sharp knife, it is the most precious period of life. Youth is like fresh and lively cells in the metabolism of the human body, and decay is always present in nature. The path of elimination, and the fresh and lively ones with their position in space and the life of time."
The former "new youth". /Wikipedia
In any era, youth are a vital force for social progress. In every era, the mission of youth is different. More than 100 years later, numbers are reshaping real society. This generation of young people also faces more challenges, but they also have more opportunities to break their constraints. Today is the May 4th Youth Day. In this festival for young people, we focus on a group of young people who are engaged in new professions and realizing value in cutting-edge positions.
They may have a low starting point, but they resolutely resist fate and jump out of the script that has been written; they may face the pressure of secular stereotypes, but they do not look back, make brave choices, and are true to their hearts. They are "undefined" young people in everyone's eyes. They swim in the ocean of the Internet, break traditions, dare to innovate, and redefine their own destiny on a road rarely traveled.
Refusing to Accept Fate: The Adventure of a "Crazy Knight" from Factory Worker to Programmer
"The Knight of the Windmill", Wen Xuegui saw it in the novel "Don Quixote" My own shadow - "I may not be able to do what I am doing now, but I still have to give it a try." From a factory worker who "tightens screws on an assembly line" in Shenzhen to a programmer at Guangzhou Tunda Software Company, it would take a little bit of the idealism and perseverance of a "crazy knight" to complete such a transformation.
While working in the factory, a batch of robots introduced by the factory made Wen Xuegui feel a faint sense of crisis. The sense of uneasiness also comes from the foreseeable long emptiness in future life - "Today has already completed the rest of my life." A crazy idea suddenly appeared in front of Wen Xuegui: teach yourself programming.
Wen Xuegui became a programmer.
Previously, Wen Xuegui did not go to college, but chose to go to a technical secondary school after graduating from junior high school - that was the fastest way to help his family share the financial burden. As the eldest son in the family, Xuegui has four younger siblings, so he must be sensible. For him, it has been a long journey from self-taught programming to "deployment as a programmer".
Returning to the dormitory after get off work every day is his precious two hours of study time. But in the boys' dormitory, the sound of videos playing outside was mixed with the sound of various games and chatter. In addition to this, there is also the exhaustion after coming back from get off work every day.
For young people from small towns like Xuegui, who have low academic qualifications, the biggest obstacle to "breaking through" comes from lack of confidence. When he started trying to learn programming, people around him would always comment, "This thing is too difficult" and "Can you really teach yourself?"
But Wen Xuegui often thinks of a joke said by the head teacher of a technical secondary school: "The poor performance in the high school entrance examination may be due to the month of birth." This sentence seems to be purely "metaphysical" today. But he found a kind of strength when he was frustrated, not because his intelligence was not up to standard, not because of lack of learning ability, it might just be an unexplained "bad luck".
When Wen Xuegui began to adjust his self-study efficiency and implement learning goals more strictly, he discovered that "programming is not as difficult as he imagined."
People around me always comment on "this thing is too difficult" and "can you really learn by yourself?" /Tu Chong Creative
After several months of online classes, Wen Xuegui began to focus on finding a job and sending in resumes. After more than three months of job hunting, he received an interview: front-end development of WeChat mini programs.
Immediately afterwards, he became a small program engineer. In fact, it’s not just academics. According to a report by the Academy of Information and Communications Technology, mini programs will drive 7.8 million jobs in 2020, becoming the core engine for WeChat to drive employment.
After entering Guangzhou Tunda Software Company, from building various small program malls for enterprises to designing entertaining "digital blind boxes", when the small programs developed by myself and my team were launched into the market, Xuegui has seen the direct impact programming has on the lives around him.
Now, Wen Xuegui works harder than others.
"On the assembly line, no matter how hard you tighten the screws, you can't get anything out of the way." But in the digital world of code, it seems that you can change the world. Wen Xuegui was proud. Although he only participated in the development of many small programs, he saw his own value when he thought that the small programs at hand would cover tens of millions of people.
In an office building in an international trade center in Guangzhou, Wen Xuegui was taking a break and looking out the window at the foggy city after heavy rain. On the 22nd floor, he has broken away from the surface that stuck to him. In the future, he hopes to go higher.
Loves challenges: She uses algorithms to "change the world" even though she can rely on her looks.
Can women also become top programmers? 27-year-old Liu Enyu is using personal experience to prove: Of course it can. Liu Enyu is an algorithm researcher in the Multimedia Laboratory. His current main research direction is image and video processing. Through the combination of traditional formula modeling and artificial intelligence algorithms, he completes work including image generation, video repair, and video enhancement.
At only 27 years old, she not only participated in and led multiple multimedia-related projects, but also submitted 2 patents and published 7 academic journals and international conference papers.
She remembers that when she was a child, a documentary about Chinese engineers working hard in Silicon Valley was broadcast on TV. The image of programmers on TV made her yearn for it - professional, capable, knowledgeable, and most importantly It can change the world!
The seed of a dream was planted from then on.
For example, "I want to live a challenging life."
Since junior high school, Liu Enyu has enjoyed the derivation process of science; his first choice in the college entrance examination was electronic information, even though the concept of AI was not yet popular at the time. She was successfully admitted to Wuhan University, and during her sophomore year she began working with her tutor on a scientific research project on images and videos - image dehazing.
She is more serious, "When doing model design, I may experiment for two months and find that the effect is not as expected; or I may have completed the experiment and achieved the expectation, but when I compare it with the algorithms on the market , I found that my algorithm is not as good as others..." Overthrow, start over, improve, and improve again; fight with bugs, race with competitors and myself, and also fight against time.
Enyu recalled that she worked continuously for a month and basically lived in the company. "When I opened my eyes, I thought of work, and worked overtime on Saturdays and Sundays to read literature and papers."
When women study science and enter the AI ??industry, they will be questioned or "admonished" due to stereotypes. On many occasions, Enyu has been questioned because of labels such as "young" and "beautiful".
Liu Enyu never paid attention to these voices. "I want to live a challenging life." In many dimensions, the Internet has promoted true openness and equality, diversifying opportunities and choices.
She said, "In my job, people don't look at what you look like, they only look at how well you write code."
In Liu Enyu’s world, there are no difficulties that cannot be overcome.
On the Qingming Festival not long ago, Enyu participated in an image optimization project for the restoration of old photos. When the damaged and blurred photos become new and clear - the old soldiers in the photos suddenly come alive.
The old soldier in the photo had passed away. When Liu Enyu handed the photo into the hands of the old soldier's son and saw his complicated emotions of excitement and forbearance, at this moment, she understood her own value and determined the direction of her future efforts. As a programmer, in the process of using code to change the world and promote technology, Liu Enyu feels a call of mission, a kind of satisfaction and determination to realize self-worth.
New mission: to be a village cadre and an "anchor" in the mountains
Tang Qiang is a village cadre in rural Guangxi. His other identity is the "anchor" in the mountains. By operating a video account, he recorded the touching experiences and interesting moments in the process of helping farmers. While winning the trust of villagers, he also gained the attention and recognition of many white-collar workers in cities outside the mountains.
Before settling in the village, Tang Qiang spent almost all his life practicing the issue of "how to get out of the countryside."
Thirty years ago, Tang Qiang was born in a small mountain village in Yulin, Guangxi. At that time, the parents who came from peasant backgrounds had only one belief in their hearts: they must send their children out of the mountains and make a difference. Tang Qiang remembers that during his childhood, he had to walk several miles to go to school. When school started, he had to carry rice on his back.
Tang Qiang has no time to go to and from get off work, and he can leave at any time if something happens.
In 2009, Tang Qiang lived up to expectations and was admitted to Guangxi University. Life after that was smooth sailing. After graduation, he passed school recruitment and worked at the Qiaogong Hydropower Station under the Guangxi Investment Group.
In 2020, Guangxi Investment Group openly recruited a new batch of village-based cadres. Tang Qiang signed up by accident and came to Nongkun Village in the mountains of Guangxi.
Tang Qiang, who grew up in the land, has an affinity for the land. While others tried their best to get out of the countryside, he walked back persistently. He enjoys facing others' confusion and feels extremely fulfilled by "helping the villagers make a little progress every day."
Before going to bed one night in 2020, Tang Qiang came across a video "from above 3,200 meters above sea level". The scenery was stunning. This video was produced by a poverty alleviation cadre in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan.
Tang Qiang was deeply inspired by some of his observations and insights while working in villages to help farmers. He decided to take action himself and use video recording to help poverty alleviation. The matter of helping farmers spread to further cities.
It only took Tang Qiang less than a month to go from being a novice in shooting and editing to staying up late to learn the entire video production process online. Although he is usually very busy at work, helping villagers apply for subsidies, dealing with infrastructure damage caused by rolling rocks, and visiting households, Tang Qiang always finds time to spend on video planning, filming, dubbing, copywriting, and editing.
Tang Qiang plans to use short videos to sell things in the village.
In June last year, Tang Qiang was invited to open the video account "Hardworking Daqiang". In less than a year, he released more than 100 short videos, recording Every detail in the process of staying in villages to help farmers.
Despite the poor soil, with the exploration and help of the village cadres, the village produced mountain wine, dry lotus root vermicelli and other special agricultural products according to local conditions. In the future, Tang Qiang will promote these local characteristics through live e-commerce and continue to promote rural revitalization.
With the development of short videos on the Internet, Tang Qiang found his unique joy as a village cadre and will help rural areas achieve economic development.
In Tang Qiang’s view, the video account is like a connector, not only connecting the countryside and the city, but also forming a The closed loop of functions and business will not only help win more recognition for the work in the village, but also help achieve the next goals - e-commerce poverty alleviation and the integration of production and marketing.
Be yourself: an 18-year-old changed by e-sports
On the eve of the college entrance examination, 18-year-old Xia Shengqin suddenly came to a crossroads in life. In his senior year of high school, Xia Shengqin came into contact with "Glory of the King". In just 4 days, his account reached level 21, and soon after, he ranked first in the district rankings. A professional invitation to the Shanghai Mu Club followed.
Are e-sports players “internet-addicted teenagers”? /Tu Chong Creative
There are two paths before him. One is to enter university through the college entrance examination like all his peers; the other is to become a professional E-sports player. The former is a road traveled by many people and is safe; the latter seems to everyone to be "not doing a proper job" and an excuse for Internet-addicted teenagers to avoid studying, and the future is uncertain. During the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, Xia Shengqin took 3,000 yuan and took the train to Shanghai without telling his parents. Since the "Honor of Kings" e-sports had just started at that time, Xia Shengqin and his team lost every game because they did not have scientific training.
Xia Shengqin was shaken, with hesitation, confusion, and frustration surrounding him. He kept thinking, was he escaping from life, or did he really regard e-sports as a dream? He decided to report to the university first. Xia Shengqin's college life only lasted two days.
After arriving at the university campus and briefly visiting the student dormitories and classrooms, he grabbed his luggage that he had not yet had time to unpack and returned to the e-sports embrace. Thinking about it many years later, Xia Shengqin was grateful for his choice. Talent, hard work and bravery did not fail him.
In 2016, Xia Shengqin, who had just joined the Chongqing QG happy club, completed the "first kill" in his career with the role of Sun Shangxiang. In the regular season of the KPL Spring Split in May 2017, Xia Shengqin’s Sun Shangxiang led the team to reverse the defeat and successfully come back with a score of 1-5.
In 2017, the newly formed QG happy team became a blockbuster, winning the "Triple Crown" of the 2017 Spring League, Champions League and Autumn League in one fell swoop, becoming the first annual Grand Slam team in the KPL. On March 21, 2020, Xia Shengqin once again reached the peak of his career. In the KPL Spring Split, he used the hero Sun Shangxiang to successfully unlock the KPL 1500 kill achievement and became the first "Mr. 1500 Kill" in KPL.
He has won and lost. However, after truly integrating into e-sports, Xia Shengqin understands the ups and downs better than anyone else. But because of e-sports, he also learned to face everything with a more positive attitude, because e-sports is just like life. "If I hadn't played e-sports, I might be working now, maybe doing business with my father, or maybe opening a shop and being the head of the canteen." At this point, Xia Shengqin showed a smile, "It's not that working is not good. ."
But in that case, there would be no "sharp shooter Hurt" (Xia Shengqin's best position in "Glory of Kings" is the shooter).
Guarding the bottom line: Policeman Xiao Zhu’s anti-fraud journey
Zhu Qiliang is an anti-fraud policeman from the Criminal Police Detachment of the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau. In Zhu Qiliang's words, this job is one that "changes every day and every month." Since the forms of information network crimes are flexible, the detection methods must also change accordingly. This job of "cat-catching mice" on the Internet gave him a sense of urgency to keep learning.
This job requires continuous learning online every day.
Mastering the skills required for anti-fraud investigation is a big test for Zhu Qiliang, who majors in public security. Back then, when he was first transferred to the anti-fraud center, Zhu Qiliang was "very ignorant and didn't quite understand how online fraud works." Once when they encountered a stock trading fraud platform, Zhu Qiliang and his colleagues disguised themselves as investors and negotiated with the other party to understand the situation. They spent a lot of time investigating in the early stage. Finally, after a lot of effort, they uncovered all the network proxies layer by layer.
Zhu Qiliang is careful, loves to learn, and likes to think. These qualities have helped him complete the transition from security work to anti-fraud work.
Fighting crime online requires more patience and care than traditional crime. /Movie "The Heart is Burning"
Every day, Zhu Qiliang and his colleagues receive a large number of police reports. The first thing they do is to trace the defrauded funds of the victim and find out the flow and direction. Intercept funds in a timely manner and conduct further investigation on key clues involved in the case. Sometimes they also participate in combat pursuits. In addition to hunting, Zhu Qiliang's daily work also includes early warning and dissuasion. The technology of early warning and dissuasion originates from the cooperation between the public security department and the Internet technology platform. Once Zhu Qiliang and his colleagues discover that citizens have been targeted by fraud gangs, they will immediately come to dissuade them. Although he has been engaged in anti-internet fraud work for 8 years, Zhu Qiliang still laments the cunningness of criminals from time to time. Fortunately, the devil is as good as the road, and the continuous advancement of information technology can always allow them to curb crimes in time.
The case was solved, Officer Zhu’s happiest moment. / Tu Chong Creative
For example, fraudsters often used the "fake base station" fraud method in the past. The so-called "pseudo base station" uses other equipment to block normal communication signals, and pretends to be a bank customer service and other staff to send phishing link text messages to the owner. Later, the police cooperated with Tencent to develop a tool to counter "fake base stations".
Zhu Qiliang said that after a few months, there were almost no "pseudo base stations" in Shenzhen. The combination of traditional criminal investigation and digital technology has greatly facilitated more anti-fraud police officers like Zhu Qiliang. Zhu Qiliang also has a full sense of accomplishment in his work. He remembers countless thrilling "interception" crime moments.
Once, through hard work, Zhu Qiliang and his colleagues discovered a citizen who was about to transfer money to a fraud gang. After many visits, they finally succeeded in dissuading him at the last moment, and a huge sum of money was safely intercepted. Seeing that the client's funds were safe and sound, Zhu Qiliang felt proud from the bottom of his heart. Today, the situation of telecommunications and network fraud is still severe, and the workload of anti-fraud police is also increasing. It is difficult for Zhu Qiliang to spend enough time with his family. But every time he hesitated, he would be pulled back by work.
In Zhu Qiliang’s view, anti-fraud work is actually a “virtuous” job.
Officer Zhu’s daily break.
Postscript
What should youth look like? It should not be defined.
In the past, we always felt that "poor students" had no future and "internet-addicted teenagers" were not doing their jobs properly; we thought that girls could not study science well, and we questioned that female programmers could not endure hardship; we thought that so-called traditional jobs , we should and can only go step by step... We would like to thank these "non-definition" young people who pursue their dreams wantonly. They spend their youth and create new possibilities.
These young people are not only a small number of bright figures in life, they are also the epitome of countless new young people in the world who are chasing their dreams and bravely trying the unknown. Today, the Internet digital economy is developing rapidly, and more and more unfamiliar professions and positions are emerging. Under the wave of Internet digital employment, these prejudices are being broken one by one.
It can be said that the new business formats spawned by the Internet have, to a large extent, given young people the courage and opportunity to transcend their origins, stimulate their new potential, and live a new life of their own choice. The 2020 "Research Report on New Occupations and New Positions in Digital Employment" released by the Academy of Information and Communications Technology shows that in the past year, new job opportunities derived from WeChat alone reached 36.84 million. In these new professions, young people see new possibilities, acquire new skills, discover new potential, and become truly "non-defined youth."
No need to be limited by location, education, or capital... No one can define your life and want to shine, let alone lack of experience, low education, or tearing up inherent labels on the front lines. If you have a fever, just go and fight for it. This is a life worthy of admiration