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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
In the mountains of the Guanshan State Forestry in Yifeng County, Jiangxi Province, you can often see a short, thin woman striding briskly through the dense forest. She is 62-year-old forester Wu Zhonghua.
Wu Zhonghua oversees over 3,600 mu (15 mu = 1 hectare) of forestland within the Guanshan National Nature Reserve. This area is rich in pristine forests and rare species of wildlife and plants. In addition to her usual duties, such as promoting forest conservation laws, identifying fire risks, preventing illegal logging, and monitoring forest pests, she is also tasked with combating poaching and the illegal collection of wild plants and animals.
Wu Zhonghua was born in 1964 in a forestry barracks. Her father worked there. In 1994, she officially became a forester at the Guanshan Forestry. In 2014, Wu Zhonghua retired, then returned to her previous job and continues to protect the forest to this day. "I've never left this forest my entire life. Even when I was pregnant, I walked the mountains every day. When my children grew up, I took them on patrol with me," she says. For 32 years, she has explored every corner of the forestry, covering over 8,000 kilometers annually on patrol.
When Wu Zhonghua first started working as a forester, she was scared, but she never considered giving up. The forest is fraught with many dangers: deep in the mountains and forests, wild boars, venomous snakes, and wild bees are often encountered, and poachers are also a constant threat.
Today, 62-year-old Wu Zhonghua remains on the front lines of forest protection. When she's not patrolling, she raises chickens, grows vegetables on the forestry farm's property, and practices tai chi with her colleagues in her spare time. Her life in this remote mountainous region is vibrant.
Photo by a Xinhua News Agency correspondent.
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