“Just imagine, when we were so backward, our material life was nothing compared to the Western “civilization”.

“Just imagine if those students who studied abroad eventually chose to leave their impoverished hometowns instead of resolutely returning to their motherland. Would our country really have the development it has today?

"People can't forget their roots! And they shouldn't forget their roots!

"What rural revitalization needs most is education. It is not education that allows people to escape from their hometown, but education that can make their hometown become the ideal and beautiful one!"

Chairman Xiao Xu finally said:

“When our education is no longer aimed at leaving our hometown and escaping poverty; when our education is not the kind of broad teaching that aims at getting children out of the mountains; when our education is aimed at the development of science and technology, keeping up with the times, and revitalization.

“——When only they themselves master knowledge, science, technology and wisdom, we can talk about the future of rural revitalization!

“We are not and should not be heroes that fall from the sky!

"They are not, and should not be, incompetent people who just wait to be rescued by heroes!

“We should tell them and let them realize that they themselves are the hope for changing their hometown.

“The future of rural revitalization belongs to the rural people themselves, and they can be their own heroes!”

Xiao Xu turned around and said to the seniors of the rural poverty alleviation investigation team: "All of this is what I really want to show you all the time!"

After a long silence, the professors from the rural poverty alleviation investigation team gave Xiao Xu a prolonged round of applause.