This story is immensely touching and is going massively viral in China. It's also a pretty good soft signal that China is taking warming ties with the U.S. sincerely. This lady 👇 is called Yin Yuzhen (殷玉珍) and she lives in a place called Jǐngbèitáng (井背塘) in Inner Mongolia - deep in the heart of the Mu Us (毛乌素) Desert, a place whose name literally translates from Mongolian as "bad (lacking) water". In 1985, aged 19, she and her husband were really desperate by the encroaching desert: sandstorms would seal their door shut overnight and literally threaten to bury them alive. She was crying every day and considered ending her life. However, her defiant spirit prevailed and she decided to fight the desert, saying she'd "rather die planting trees than let the sand bully me to death" (宁可种树累死，也不让沙子欺负死) In 1986, they traded the family's most valuable possession - a sheep - for 600 tree seedlings. Fewer than 10 survived, but they saw hope. Her husband Bái Wànxiáng (白万祥) took manual labor jobs and asked for tree seedlings instead of wages. In 1999, Yin Yuzhen's story made it into national news on CCTV. An American named Ronald Sakolsky - originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - who was teaching English as a foreign instructor at Luoyang Foreign Language School (洛阳外国语学校) in Henan province, was deeply moved. He immediately started sending emails to multiple American organizations to raise $5,000 for her. The $5,000 was sent through a Beijing-based foundation. In the video 👇, Yin Yuzhen recalls receiving it: "I had never seen that much money in my life - it scared me half to death." She spent every cent on higher-quality seedlings than she'd ever been able to afford. Shortly after, Sakolsky traveled to the Mu Us desert in person. He found her out in the sand, planting. Seeing green where he'd expected only desert, he kept saying "impossible, impossible." With Sakolsky's $5,000 alone, Yin Yuzhen planted 50,000 seedlings which have now become a forest. Over her entire life, since the 1980s, her life's work stands at over two million trees planted, transforming almost 50 km² (roughly 80% of Manhattan) of desert into green land. Yin Yuzhen was awarded the 全国劳模 (National Model Worker), one of China's highest civilian honors. Seeing her video titled 寻找赛考斯 ("Searching for Sakolsky") and the incredible impact it was having on Chinese social media, journalists from Inner Mongolia's Benteng Media (奔腾融媒) tracked Sakolsky down by going to the Luoyang No. 2 Foreign Language Academy and finding the Headmaster Bai Fan, who was Sakolsky's former colleague. Bai Fan connected with Sakolsky by phone on the spot, shot on video by the journalists (my 2nd video 👇), inviting him back to China to see what his $5,000 became. This was 2 days ago on May 17th so you can bet that a Sakolsky visit to China will be arranged soon and that this will be one of the biggest pieces of US-China public diplomacy this year. Now this story coming out and being amplified right after Trump's visit is of course no coincidence, we shouldn't be naive: what better way to translate the warmth from the visit than letting a desert grandmother in a red headscarf tell the internet she's looking for her American friend? That doesn't make the story any less real or any less touching. In fact this story is the perfect reminder that countries don't have friends, but people do. And when countries remember this, deserts turn green.

Anduril一年估值翻三倍，正在逼近洛克希德·马丁 🇺🇸 美国陆军 200亿美元 合同 ✈️ FQ-44A Fury 自主战斗机已下线，年产能 150架 🤖 北约 选定其Lattice AI指挥平台 9岁的公司挑战70岁的军工帝国 🔥 MSX全网独家首发 ⏰ 8月31日18:00（UTC+8）开放申购 💎 仅限持有$MSX平台币用户参与 📈 持有越多额度越高 别错过下一位国防巨头的诞生 #Anduril# #MSX# #PreIPO#

【MSX Pre-IPO 三期已开放申购】 Neuralink、Anduril 现已开放申购，9月6日00:00（UTC+8）截止。 Neuralink｜项目估值420亿美元｜申购价格219 USDT Anduril｜项目估值1,150亿美元｜申购价格130 USDT 两项目总额度各300万美元。 符合条件的用户可通过MSX App 首页 Banner，或「个人中心—Pre-IPO」参与申购。 🔗 申购详情及完整规则见评论区

🎁 「典藏金钞」特别相送！ 一路走到今天，有高光，也难免有波折。 所以这一次，我们更想送给那些一直关注 MSX、持有 $MSX ，也愿意继续陪着我们往前走的麦友们一份特别的礼物。💚 本次限量准备 2 份「典藏金钞」。 短期的价格会有起伏， 但一路走来的信任、陪伴和积累，值得被认真记住。 🗓️ 活动时间 推文发布起 — 8 月 14 日 23:59（UTC+8） 感谢每一位与 MSX 一路同行的麦友。 参与方式及中奖规则见评论区👇 #MSX# #麦通#