What is the community busy with recently?

Xue Feng

What have the brothers and sisters in the community been busy with lately?

Recently, it's been rare to see the brothers and sisters in the community online. What are they up to?

It’s not that they don’t want to connect and share their feelings with everyone, nor is it because they’re too lazy to open their computers. They are actually working hard, striving to raise funds for the growth of the community.

Around fifty people are out picking cotton. They leave as soon as the day breaks and usually don't return for lunch, sometimes not coming back until nightfall. For every kilogram of cotton picked, they earn two yuan. Their goal this year is to earn 180,000 yuan through cotton picking.

In Gesar, the community is quiet at this moment, with only five or six brothers and sisters working. The strong ones have gone out to pick cotton, while the rest are busy with a lot of work within the community, and it’s very tiring every day. In Qinggema, there aren’t many brothers and sisters, and the rest are busy repairing roads and leveling the vegetable garden for next year’s crops. There is no soil there, only a sandy ground, so to plant vegetables, they have to dig up silt from the river to spread over the sandy surface.

This is our community, these are my beloved brothers and sisters. When such people come together, there are no insurmountable obstacles, no fiery mountains that cannot be crossed.

— October 10, 2014