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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

A |           　　受今年第19号台风“紫檀”影响，这两天，广西崇左市多地出现大雨到暴雨，河流水位不断上涨。    

    A group photo from the 1999 donation ceremony, where Ronald Sakolsky presents $5,000 for afforestation efforts. Photo: Courtesy of Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School
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.
。在崇左市宁明县，县城低洼地区及多个乡镇出现积水，部分道路交通中断。总台记者在广西宁明县城滨江路段介绍当地最新情况。　　水面漂浮堆积大量杂物 当地组织人员清运      　　总台记者 邓君洋：我身后是宁明大桥，明江从宁明县城穿城而过。受近几天强降雨影响，明江水位持续上涨。

B | 今天早上，明江宁明大桥段附近的江面上漂浮堆积了大量杂物。这些漂浮物主要是树枝、树干，还有塑料瓶、泡沫箱等。      　　从昨晚10时左右开始一直到现在，当地已经调度工程车辆对江面杂物打捞清运。

C | 今早，当地交管、住建、应急、消防等多个部门工作人员已经来到滨江路、宁明大桥一带拉起了警戒线，提醒沿岸居民注意出行安全。      　　大量漂浮杂物再加上不断上涨的江水，会给宁明大桥带来不小的压力和风险，清运工作目前还在加紧进行。     　　受强降雨影响，流经宁明县的多条江河水位暴涨，县城低洼地带和部分乡镇出现积涝。

D | 沿江一些地势低洼的民房被淹。昨夜，这片受淹区域还一度停水停电。这两天当地相关部门已经紧急转移受灾群众，在县城设置了安置点。　　25日凌晨宁明县城水文站将出现洪峰水位      　　记者今晨从宁明县水文中心了解到，过去24小时，全县有3条河流5个水文站点水位超警4—6米。今早8时，明江宁明县城河段水位达到122.96米，超警6.96米，水位目前还在缓慢上涨。      　　宁明县城水文站预判，预计在25日凌晨2时左右会出现约123.5米的洪峰水位，超警7.5米左右。

E | 预计未来12小时，明江中下游水位仍将逐渐上涨。

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