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$5,000 grew into a forest: American donor returns to China to reunite with desert reclamation partner_我的网站
一 | Nancy编译 新西兰政界各党派领导人针对华纳兄弟探索公司计划于六月底关闭Newshub一事纷纷做出了反应。此举引发了政界人士的震惊和关切。
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At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, after a flight of more than 10 hours, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
The thrill of his homecoming had washed over him most vividly during the final moments of his flight. "When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home."
Sakolsky, an American retired teacher from Pennsylvania, is visiting China from Sunday to September 1 for a journey that will take him to Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Central China's Henan Province. It is a reunion nearly three decades in the making.
That reunion began with a single act of generosity. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by Yin Yuzhen and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
After decades of lost contact, Yin, a national model worker renowned for her desert restoration achievements, launched an online search for her American benefactor in May, hoping to reconnect with the man who helped launch her lifelong desert reclamation mission.
What followed was a remarkable wave of online support: within less than 48 hours, a nationwide search had tracked Sakolsky down. That swift effort led to their long-awaited virtual reunion, a video call that brought them face to face for the first time in 27 years.
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people."
The trip itself felt like a dream he never thought would come true, he added.
Now, the dream is about to come true. Later on Sunday, Sakolsky will fly to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the site of the transformative environmental project that bound his fate with Yin's all those years ago.
During his China visit, Sakolsky will join Yin in a new tree-planting activity. He will also hold exchanges and discussions with teachers and students from the Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School where he once taught, and participate in official China-US teacher exchange events, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
As he prepares to see the transformed landscape with his own eyes, Sakolsky shared with the Global Times about how much China itself has changed over the past two decades. From photographs, he said, he had already seen the barren desert he remembered turn into lush green forests; he had also heard that Luoyang has become far more vibrant and beautiful.
"Hopefully the message gets out to the world that Chinese and Americans can work together and make a peaceful world," he said.
。 总理 Christopher Luxon对此表示，“这一决定令人震惊和悲伤”，他指出这对Newshub的员工来说是“非常艰难的一天”。他透露在宣布关闭前，他曾与华纳兄弟探索公司进行了短暂的交流，以了解他们做出这一决定的原因。 Advertise with us Luxon呼吁媒体行业需要像其他行业一样不断创新，以应对行业日益激烈的竞争，同时也表达了对受影响员工的关切。
三 | 媒体与通讯部长Melissa Le对此表示，“这将是对Newshub家庭的巨大冲击”，她强调华纳兄弟探索公司从未寻求政府援助。 Melissa表示，媒体消费者行为的改变使得传统媒体不得不调整自己的业务模式，她同时表达了对该公司受影响的近300名员工的同情。 工党媒体与通讯发言人Willie Jackson表示，Newshub即将关闭是“非常令人悲伤的”，他指出媒体行业的变革给行业带来了巨大的压力。
四 | Jackson透露，作为前任媒体与通讯部长，他在去年已经得知了华纳兄弟探索公司面临的困境，但并未预料到他们会如此迅速地做出关闭决定。 国家党副党魁（Deputy National leader）Nicola Willis则表示，全球媒体格局正在发生剧变，她强调新西兰媒体市场仍然存在竞争，但Newshub的关闭仍然是一个重大的改变。Willis认为，关键问题在于新西兰人民是否有多种选择来获取媒体信息，她认为现阶段仍然有多样的视角可供选择。 行动党领袖David Seymour 表示，Newshub的关闭不仅是员工的悲伤，也是对新西兰民主的挑战。
五 | 他强调新西兰民主环境需要一个竞争激烈的媒体市场，以便人们能够获取各种不同的观点，虽然Newshub关闭了，但或许会有其他企业出面继续利用该市场的设备和人员资源。 面对Newshub的关闭，政界各党派领导人纷纷表达了对媒体行业未来发展的关切，并呼吁媒体企业应对行业变革做出积极应对。同时，他们也对受影响的员工表示了同情与支持。 相关阅读： 新西兰主流新闻网站将关闭，员工自己都不知道这新闻 NZME发布“分裂”年报：利润腰斩但数字业务喜人 注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。
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