Chinese committed to human safety and others by Wildfire Fight

 

China Consul General to Nigeria, Ambassador Chu Maoming, has state Chinese as people who are completely committed in efforts towards  human and environmental safety, a traditional virtue known with.

Maoming said this in a statement to Reporters in Lagos. According to him, people living in society will always encounter some unpredictable disasters and insurmountable difficulties and need help from others one way or the other.

His words, “On the night of August 21, 2022, a wildfire erupted in Jinyun Moutain, Chongqing, China, mustly at the section of Hutou Mountain near Beibei’s Xiema Township. To save the precious forest, people from all trades, far or near from the accident township, participated in the fight against the fire, including fire brigades, PLA soldiers, armed police, local residents, volunteers, and artists as well. Yes, the artists exerted and have been exerting themselves to help contain the fire and rebuild the forest after the disaster, in their own inspiring ways.

On August 24 2022, the local poet and poetry critic, Professor Jiang Dengke of Southwest University(SWU), who is also a vice-chair of Chongqing Writers Association and a vice-chief of SWU Press, published his series of six prose poems in local media, praising in full earnest the fighters’ devotions, expressing on behalf of all locals the gratitude to all devoted to the fight, which inspired people all across the communities.

On August 25 2022, eight performing artists from Chongqing Declaiming Artists Association worked with to have Professor Jiang’s prose poems recorded as reciting podcast, having it circulated to far, and having encouraged all trades of people to be devoted in the fire fighting and rebuilding after the disaster. The fire not ended yet, a famous statue began to spread across the internet, which is named The Motorcyclist Knight, depicting the valiant motorcyclists who upon the calling for motor couriers gathered immediately and began to rush and run with little rest for couple of days”, he said

The sculptor of this work Mr. Tang Zhongguo, who is a freelance artist at Beibei, he went on, was moved by the young motorcyclists and he wanted to keep their bravery for ever with his sculpture.