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一 | 关志鸥在襄阳市领导干部会议上强调发挥优势抢抓机遇鼓足干劲在全省发展大局中挑大梁担重任走在前　　8月23日，襄阳市领导干部会议召开，宣布襄阳市委主要领导职务调整的决定。

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Yin Yuzhen (left), Ronald Sakolsky (right) and Yin’s husband pose for a photo in Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on August 24. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi/GT
At the Ordos Ejin Horo International Airport in Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Yin Yuzhen, a nationally recognized hero in desertification prevention and control and her US friend “Sai Kaosi” (whose real name is Ronald Sakolsky) embraced each other in tears.
This reunion after 26 years, spanning the Pacific Ocean, took place as scheduled under the witness of the lush greenery of the Maowusu Desert, touching the hearts of countless people around the world.
This reunion across mountains and seas was not only a long-awaited gathering of two old friends, but also a vivid testament to how goodwill can take root, how people can work together in desertification control, and how people to people friendship can endure.
This reunion was a beautiful echo of goodwill transcending time.
Twenty-seven years ago, Sakolsky, who was teaching in China, was deeply moved by the story of rural woman Yin’s efforts to combat desertification and curb the spread of sand. He selflessly donated $5,000 to support her efforts and traveled specially to the Maowusu Desert in Wushen Banner the following spring to visit and encourage her.
Yin kept this assistance firmly in her heart and repaid it by planting trees. As seasons came and went, 50,000 saplings, together with precious goodwill and trust, took root in the Maowusu Desert and grew into towering trees.
Yin’s repayment was not a return of material wealth, but the transformation of a profound goodwill that crossed national borders into patches of greenery deep in the desert through her day-after-day sweat and perseverance.
This reunion highlighted the tremendous power of people planting trees together until forests grow.
Yin’s life is a history of struggle against wind and sand. At the age of 19, she married into the Maowusu Desert, where wind and sand blocked her door overnight. The rural woman made the solemn vow, “I would rather die from exhaustion planting trees than let the sand overwhelm me.” She fought scorching heat and drought, battled strong winds and raging sand, and worked tirelessly for decades, eventually turning more than 70,000 mu (4 666.67 hectares) of desert into an oasis.
Sakolsky extended a helping hand and provided strong support because he was deeply moved by Yin’s desertification control efforts. Two ordinary people joined hands in tree planting and desert control because of their shared aspiration for greenery.
Countless ordinary people like them, carrying enthusiasm, keeping their feet on the ground and devoting themselves wholeheartedly, have gathered the great strength of many people planting trees until forests emerge, transforming landscapes and creating miracles in the world.
This reunion demonstrated the enduring contemporary value of people-to-people exchanges. A faded group photo, more than 20 years of never forgetting, a nationwide effort to search for someone, and a journey across the ocean to meet again – the friendship between Yin and Sakolsky is rooted in the recognition and respect between ordinary people, simple yet deeply moving. Friendship, which derives from close contact between the people, holds the key to sound state-to-state relations.
People from different countries have different cultural backgrounds, but they share the same love for the planet we call home, the same aspiration for lucid waters and lush mountains, the same pursuit of a better life, the same appreciation for every bit of goodwill, and the same cherishing of sincere friendship. Just as Yin carefully tended the saplings planted in the desert, nurturing this bond of affinity and understanding among people with sincerity will enable it to grow ever stronger and more resilient despite winds and sands.
This reunion provided a vivid example of “jointly building a community of life for man and nature.” For humanity to achieve better survival and development, it must carry out desertification prevention and control. Through a lifetime of arduous efforts, Yin brought about a green transformation in a corner of the Maowusu Desert, serving as a microcosm of China’s desertification prevention and control efforts.
As one of the countries most severely affected by desertification in the world, China has continued its efforts in desertification control for more than half a century, achieving a historic transformation from “sand advances, people retreat” to “green advances, sand retreats” with both desertified land and sandy land areas continuously decreasing.
As a foreign friend, Sakolsky, driven by the simple belief that “humanity has only one Earth, which is our common home, and we should all cherish it,” resolutely supported Yin’s desertification control efforts. Through his actions, he has shown us that protecting the ecological environment is a common cause of all humanity – by working together and supporting each other, humanity will surely be able to leave a clean and beautiful world for future generations.
Deep in the Maowusu Desert, plants and trees remain silent, yet they represent the most touching language through which humanity and nature, and humanity and the world, communicate with each other. This place is not only a shining answer sheet for China’s ecological civilization development, but also a warm example for global desertification control through extensive international exchanges and cooperation in jointly creating more greenery.
From $5,000 to 50,000 towering trees, from a landscape once covered by wind and sand to vast stretches of lush green, from the other side of the Pacific Ocean to the depths of the Maowusu Desert, the reunion between Yin and Sakolsky inspires us that goodwill can transcend mountains and seas, perseverance can transform deserts, and mutual understanding between hearts can eliminate prejudice and barriers.
Living together in the global village, if people from all countries show more sincere empathy, work together with one heart, stay grounded and move toward each other, they will surely be able to jointly protect the common home on which we depend for survival and cultivate more green shade of friendship and hope.
This was compiled and translated by the Global Times English edition based on an article published in the quick comment on economic hotspots column of the People's Daily on August 24, 2026.
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三 | 省委书记关志鸥出席会议并讲话。他强调，襄阳要深入学习贯彻习近平总书记考察湖北重要讲话精神，发挥优势、抢抓机遇、鼓足干劲，一棒接着一棒干，一张蓝图绘到底，在全省发展大局中挑大梁、担重任、走在前。　　省委常委、组织部部长何良军主持会议并宣读省委关于襄阳市委书记调整的决定。

四 | 省委决定，彭勇同志任襄阳市委委员、常委、书记；吴海涛同志不再担任襄阳市委书记、常委、委员职务，另有任用。

五 | 吴海涛、彭勇发言。

六 | 　　关志鸥指出，这次襄阳市委主要领导的调整，是省委根据市级领导班子换届需要，反复酝酿、慎重研究决定的。

七 | 襄阳市各级领导干部要站在讲政治、守纪律的高度，坚决贯彻省委的决定，在以彭勇同志为班长的市委领导下，齐心协力把襄阳各方面工作做好。　　关志鸥强调，近年来，襄阳市委、市政府带领全市干部群众深入贯彻落实习近平总书记重要讲话和指示批示精神，统筹推进强信心、稳增长、防风险、促改革、惠民生各项工作，推动襄阳发展能级、质效、后劲不断提升。襄阳交通区位优越、产业基础扎实、文化底蕴厚重，在全省发展大局中地位重要。

八 | 要牢记嘱托、勇担使命，推动高质量发展迈出新步伐，为支点建设贡献更大力量。

九 | 　　关志鸥强调，要坚持规划引领，把“十五五”规划、国土空间规划作为推动高质量发展的重要依据，立足主体功能定位，发挥地处武汉、西安两大中心城市之间等区位优势，打造具有襄阳特色的高质量发展重要增长极。

十 | 要全力推动高质量发展，在全省产业图谱中找准自身位置，围绕主导产业、“六张网”、城市更新等重点领域谋划实施一批重大项目，因地制宜发展县域经济，打造文旅融合“金字招牌”，着力建设“有呼必应、无事不扰”一流营商环境。要统筹发展和安全，扎实做好重点领域风险排查化解工作，筑牢防汛减灾、安全生产坚固防线，全力维护人民群众生命财产安全。　　关志鸥要求，要牢固树立和践行正确政绩观，坚持实事求是、坚持为民造福，敢于直面问题、敢于较真碰硬，以实干创造经得起实践、人民、历史检验的实绩。要以市县乡领导班子换届为契机，优化领导班子配备、选准用好干部，坚决不让干活的人吃亏、坚决不让老实人吃亏。