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$5,000 grew into a forest: American donor returns to China to reunite with desert reclamation partner_我的网站
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At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, after a flight of more than 10 hours, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
The thrill of his homecoming had washed over him most vividly during the final moments of his flight. "When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home."
Sakolsky, an American retired teacher from Pennsylvania, is visiting China from Sunday to September 1 for a journey that will take him to Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Central China's Henan Province. It is a reunion nearly three decades in the making.
That reunion began with a single act of generosity. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by Yin Yuzhen and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
After decades of lost contact, Yin, a national model worker renowned for her desert restoration achievements, launched an online search for her American benefactor in May, hoping to reconnect with the man who helped launch her lifelong desert reclamation mission.
What followed was a remarkable wave of online support: within less than 48 hours, a nationwide search had tracked Sakolsky down. That swift effort led to their long-awaited virtual reunion, a video call that brought them face to face for the first time in 27 years.
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people."
The trip itself felt like a dream he never thought would come true, he added.
Now, the dream is about to come true. Later on Sunday, Sakolsky will fly to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the site of the transformative environmental project that bound his fate with Yin's all those years ago.
During his China visit, Sakolsky will join Yin in a new tree-planting activity. He will also hold exchanges and discussions with teachers and students from the Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School where he once taught, and participate in official China-US teacher exchange events, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
As he prepares to see the transformed landscape with his own eyes, Sakolsky shared with the Global Times about how much China itself has changed over the past two decades. From photographs, he said, he had already seen the barren desert he remembered turn into lush green forests; he had also heard that Luoyang has become far more vibrant and beautiful.
"Hopefully the message gets out to the world that Chinese and Americans can work together and make a peaceful world," he said.
。 中新网8月26日电 据贵州省纪委监委消息：经贵州省委批准，贵州省纪委监委对贵州省卫生健康委员会卫生计生监督局原党委书记周亮严重违纪违法问题进行了立案审查调查。
二 | 经查，周亮丧失理想信念，背离初心使命，对抗组织审查；罔顾中央八项规定精神，收受明显超出正常礼尚往来的财物，接受可能影响公正执行公务的宴请、旅游及娱乐活动安排；违背组织原则，违规为他人谋取人事利益并收受财物；廉洁底线失守，收受可能影响公正执行公务的礼品礼金，通过民间借贷获取大额回报，违规从事营利活动；将公权力当作攫取私利的工具，利用职务便利以及职权或地位形成的便利条件，为他人在承揽项目等方面谋利，并非法收受巨额财物；通过其他国家工作人员职务上的行为以及利用其他国家工作人员的职权或地位形成的便利条件，为他人在项目承接等方面谋利，并非法收受巨额财物。 周亮严重违反党的政治纪律、组织纪律和廉洁纪律，构成严重职务违法并涉嫌受贿犯罪和利用影响力受贿犯罪，且在党的十八大后不收敛、不收手，性质严重，影响恶劣，应予严肃处理。依据《中国共产党纪律处分条例》《中华人民共和国监察法》《中华人民共和国公职人员政务处分法》等有关规定，经贵州省纪委常委会会议研究并报贵州省委批准，决定给予周亮开除党籍处分；由贵州省监委给予其开除公职处分；收缴其违纪违法所得；将其涉嫌犯罪问题移送检察机关依法审查起诉，所涉财物一并移送。 【编辑:于晓】。
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