Bidding farewell
The contract for China's Far West Program is signed once a year. Ye stayed for a second year to help cultivate more wealth creators, although he thought of giving up at the beginning of the first year.
In his two years of service, Ye overachieved, exceeding the initial target of helping 10 wealth creators within three years to assisting 50 in two years.
"Volunteers and cadres will leave sooner or later, but we hope the spirit of striving for happiness and the methods to create wealth can remain and be passed down from one generation to another," says Ye, who has since returned to Guangdong.
"As stated in the Russian novel How the Steel Was Tempered, in which the protagonist says he dedicates his whole life to the liberation of mankind, to change the life of local people is the most meaningful for me," he adds.
Huang Jieqi contributed to this story.
