A hug across 27 years:American teacher and Chinese desert fighter reunite and embrace with tears in China's Inner Mongolia_我的网站
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Ronald Sakolsky (center) reunites with sand fighter Yin Yuzhen on August 23, 2026 in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Yin received his $5,000 donation and turn them into 50,000 full-grown trees. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi/GT
A long-awaited reunion that captured nationwide public attention unfolded on Sunday evening: American teacher Ronald Sakolsky and Yin Yuzhen, a model worker renowned for planting trees and combating desertification, reunited and embraced tearfully with overwhelming emotion at an airport in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, across 27 years and the separation of the ocean. In 1999, Sakolsky raised $5,000 to fund Yin's tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees in the once-barren Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. Yin waited at the arrival gate very early, the Global Times reporter observed, as she murmured English sentence she particularly learned for this occasion "Welcome to China my brother." She wore an outfit with green shade, as "green is the color of the Earth." According to Yin, she and her family has prepared for the reunion steamed buns, meaning "upward," and vegetables and fruits picked from the land transformed from desert. Yin's eyes were fixed on the escalator, and wiped out tears multiple times during the waiting time as travelers come in groups. Sakolsky said in earlier interview with the Global Times that he looked forward to this reunion and cannot hold his tears when he thought of the moment. He was about to give Yin a hug when they meet. When Sakolsky finally appeared in front of Yin, both people's eyes welled up with tears. Stepping off the elevator, Sakolsky could barely contain his excitement, muttering "Oh my God, oh my God." They hurried toward each other and locked in a tight embrace at last - the long‑awaited hug 27 years in the making, the Global Times saw. "This is a dream come true, from a lady who is the hero of the story, not me," Sakolsky told the Global Times at the airport, barely holding his emotion. "She made a promise 27 years ago, and she kept her promise. I never thought I would see her again. It is a miracle." "Brother" is one of the words Yin specially learned to greet Sakolsky and the American friend told media that "we are brother and sister now. 27 years ago, we were just friends and acquaintances." So much has happened since then, but the important thing is many people have seen the story. And now they can also help to make China beautiful, Sakolsky noted. "When I hugged her the first time, she stood like this, she was very scared. Chinese women do not hug men especially foreigners in public. But this time is exception, we are brother and sister now," he said. 。 本报讯 记者陈晶涛报道 为加快推进全区信用体系建设,加强信用法规政策和知识教育宣传,6月14日,全区多部门联合在南票商厦门前开展了以“诚信南票 你我共建”为主题的“6·14信用记录关爱日”集中宣传活动,通过宣传增强全区居民诚信意识和信用水平。
活动现场,各单位通过设立诚信宣传咨询台、悬挂横幅标语、发放宣传资料、摆放专题展板等形式,向过往行人普及社会信用体系建设知识和个人征信常识,引导社会公众关心信用体系建设、提高信用意识、关爱自身信用记录、争做诚信公民。
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据了解,此次“6·14 信用记录关爱日”主题宣传活动时间为6月12日—6月18日,活动期间,全区各单位采取线上线下相结合的方式,结合实际开展信用知识专题讲座和信用宣传进机关、进企业、进校园、进街道社区、进村镇等形式多样的系列宣传活动,带动更多群众参与到信用体系建设当中,进一步营造“知信、用信、维信、守信、爱信”的良好社会氛围,全面打造一流营商环境,为南票区全面振兴新突破三年行动赋能助力。
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