Hu Xiaoyan is the first migrant worker in China to be elected as a deputy to the National People’s Congress.
Eight months ago, Hu Xiaoyan became the first migrant worker elected to the National People’s Congress. However, she was questioned because of her shutdown. Now she is interviewed by Guangzhou Daily reporter to clarify the misunderstanding of her.
Before January 21st this year, Hu Xiaoyan from Guang ‘an, Sichuan was just an ordinary member of the 30 million migrant workers in Guangdong. But on this day, she became the deputy to the National People’s Congress elected by Guangdong Province, and also the first deputy to the National People’s Congress of migrant workers. Overnight, she became a "political star" and was regarded as "the spokesperson of 200 million migrant workers". Today, the representative of the migrant workers’ people’s congress is facing an unprecedented dilemma: thousands of calls for help every day make her tested; Turning off the phone because of too many phones and no sleep time caused a lot of abuse.
Recently, Hu Xiaoyan broke the silence and clarified the misunderstanding of her for the first time in an interview with reporters. "I am not the savior of migrant workers, I am just an ordinary working girl!" She said. Yesterday (10th), the Standing Committee of Guangdong Provincial People’s Congress also responded to this matter for the first time. The relevant person in charge of the Standing Committee of Guangdong Provincial People’s Congress said that the problems encountered by Hu Xiaoyan in the course of performing his duties have attracted their great attention. At present, Guangdong is taking a number of measures to create a better environment for deputies to perform their duties.
Present situation: life under dual identity
In the workshop of a remote ceramic factory in Baini Town, Sanshui District, Foshan City, the reporter turned around and found the workshop where Hu Xiaoyan worked. The office is extremely simple, and an old electric fan makes noises, even the chairs creak when sitting. Hu Xiaoyan, dressed in work clothes, is very simple, but very capable. The other quality inspectors in the same office with her are busy. Obviously, they have long been used to reporters interviewing Hu Xiaoyan in the workshop.
In fact, Hu Xiaoyan’s job is no different from that of other ceramic factory sorters, that is, the products from the workshop are divided into high-quality, first-class, qualified, defective and other grades, and then packaged by color code. But this link is very important, which is directly related to the quality of finished products. As a skilled worker who has been sorting dry ceramics for 10 years, if some workers do not do well, Hu Xiaoyan will go up and teach them by hand. At this time, Hu Xiaoyan is more like a skilled migrant worker.
However, Hu Xiaoyan’s status as a deputy to the National People’s Congress has been inadvertently strengthened from time to time. When the reporter’s interview car entered the ceramic factory, although the reporter indicated that an appointment had been made, the security guard at the door heard that he was looking for Hu Xiaoyan, and he cautiously called Hu Xiaoyan’s workshop to confirm it before releasing it. In the vast factory area, slogans such as "learn from Hu Xiaoyan" can also be seen from time to time. Hu Xiaoyan’s workers said that they were impressed by her: warm, cheerful and friendly.
Hu Xiaoyan said that in fact, after she became a representative, she had less private time and was as busy as a bee every day. "I go to work at 8 am every day and get off work at 6 pm, for eight hours, not a few minutes, and I have to go to work on weekends. I often have to be interviewed by reporters, or organized by the provincial people’s congress to go out for inspection. Fortunately, the factory also takes care of me, and these are all jobs. "
Talking about the topic of migrant workers, Hu Xiaoyan began to talk endlessly and clearly. Only then did she show the true colors of a NPC deputy.
Dilemma: Shutdown is questioned and reviled.
On March 20 this year, Hu Xiaoyan disclosed her mobile phone number and QQ number through the media, which attracted applause from all walks of life. This move was also regarded as an innovation in the way of performing the functions of deputies to the National People’s Congress. But then, Hu Xiaoyan found that the way to communicate with migrant workers by making public their mobile phone numbers simply didn’t work. Since March 20, Hu Xiaoyan’s mobile phone has been blasted every day, with thousands of missed calls and thousands of text messages every day. Every day, two batteries are replaced or often beaten to death; In March, Hu Xiaoyan’s mobile phone bill was as high as 1,400 yuan, accounting for more than half of her monthly salary. At most, there were 2,088 emails in her mailbox.
At first, Hu Xiaoyan answered every phone call, but later, at three or four o’clock every morning, her mobile phone still kept ringing, so she couldn’t sleep at all, and she was dizzy when she went to work the next day. And many calls are still harassing calls. One of them changed eight phones to call her to chat. In desperation, Hu Xiaoyan later had to turn it off. Because Hu Xiaoyan’s mobile phone is always busy, company leaders and colleagues can’t contact her at all, and her work is greatly affected. In order not to delay her work, she changed to another mobile phone for work.
The "savior" who carried the high hopes of migrant workers turned off, which made many migrant workers very angry. Many migrant workers sent text messages to ask Hu Xiaoyan: Aren’t you fooling us migrant workers by pretending to announce the number and not answering the phone? Many media also criticized Hu Xiaoyan’s inability to connect her mobile phone, saying that she was a "big fool". Why can’t Hu Xiaoyan’s mobile phone be connected? ","Hu Xiaoyan, who do you "speak" for? Articles with sharp words such as ""also pushed Hu Xiaoyan to the forefront of public opinion.
"It’s not that I don’t answer calls from migrant workers. If I answer every call, ten Hu Xiaoyan will not be enough." Hu Xiaoyan said with grievance that replying to emails and text messages from migrant workers has become a part of her daily work. She is busy from 7: 00 am to 12: 00 pm every day, and sometimes she has to stay up until one or two in the morning. However, replying to emails and text messages is targeted, so it is impossible for her to reply to every email.
Helpless: I’m just an ordinary working girl.
What makes Hu Xiaoyan unacceptable is that many migrant workers send text messages to scold her. "Once my mobile phone was charging, my husband read a text message from me, and someone sent a message to scold me, which was very dirty. He really can’t stand it, and told me not to use this number again. I persuaded him for a long time before he calmed down. " From then on, Hu Xiaoyan did not dare to let her husband touch this "mobile phone bomb".
She admits that the incomprehension and abuse of the outside world have brought her great psychological pressure, which often keeps her awake at night, and sometimes she can’t help crying alone in the house. When the pressure is great, she would rather carry it alone than "bring trouble to the innocent", because no one can share these pressures for her. But after crying, she had to smile and face her workmates with a smile.
Hu Xiaoyan said that she is the eldest daughter of the family, and there are only three sisters in the family. In rural Sichuan, no male in the family is discriminated against, which also makes her develop a stubborn character from an early age and never admit defeat. Even in the hard days when she ate the last meal, she survived, so now she won’t give up, so she thinks of ways to relieve the pressure for herself. "Empathy, those migrant workers are in the phone can’t get through to send text messages to scold, I would be angry. Migrant workers called me to tell me that they believed me, and they scolded me that my work was not done well, so I will strive to do better. "
The biggest problem that bothers Hu Xiaoyan now is that many migrant workers come to her regardless of big or small issues, and regard her as a "lifeline", hoping that all problems can be solved through her, but many problems are beyond her. Hu Xiaoyan told reporters that in the process of migrant workers talking to her, the most common problem is the problem of wage arrears, accounting for about 30%; Secondly, factories do not sign labor contracts, which also accounts for a considerable proportion; In addition, migrant workers who just arrived in Guangdong asked her to find a job. "Deputies to the National People’s Congress can only reflect the situation to other departments. Our representatives can’t directly solve the problem, but can only guide them to find relevant departments to solve it, or help them feed back the problem to the functional departments." Most of the time, she can’t solve the problems reflected by migrant workers. For this reason, she often feels deeply guilty. This is also her biggest role embarrassment in performing the functions of deputies to the National People’s Congress.
"I’m not the savior of migrant workers, I’m just an ordinary migrant girl." Finally, Hu Xiaoyan sighed. Among them, the sadness and helplessness may only be realized by herself.
Confession: Will not be divorced from the true nature of migrant workers
On the 21st of this month, Hu Xiaoyan will be performing her duties for 8 months. She said that this half year was the most difficult and fastest growing half year for her. "I want to thank the migrant workers who turned to her for help and gave me the motivation to learn." In Foshan, Shenzhen and her hometown in Sichuan, Hu Xiaoyan also mobilized fellow villagers, colleagues and friends to help her understand the voices and suggestions of migrant workers.
However, with the "official" position of Hu Xiaoyan’s deputies to the National People’s Congress, more and more migrant workers have calmed down from the initial cheers. They are worried that Hu Xiaoyan, who became a deputy to the National People’s Congress, is still a migrant worker? Can you still speak from their standpoint?
For this, Hu Xiaoyan personally feels the deepest. In the text messages she received and the messages of migrant workers in her blog, one of the most frequently asked questions is: You have a monthly salary of more than 4,000 yuan. Are you still a migrant worker? In fact, this is also a concern of many scholars. Many scholars pointed out after Hu Xiaoyan was elected as a deputy to the National People’s Congress that the symbolic meaning of the deputy to the people’s congress of migrant workers is greater than the substantive meaning. In the "grass-roots" position of the deputy to the National People’s Congress, Hu Xiaoyan seems to deviate from the role of migrant workers more and more. How long can she maintain the true nature of migrant workers?
In this regard, Hu Xiaoyan’s response is very simple: he will not be separated from the true nature of migrant workers. "My husband and I are still crowded in the dormitory provided by the factory, and we still have to pay the rent in 140 yuan every month, or we are front-line workers in the workshop. Compared with ordinary migrant workers, it’s just that my luck is better. " The cheerful Sichuan girl said with a smile: "I understand everyone’s concerns very well. I also came from a grassroots worker step by step. I originally packed up my bags and went to work in the city because my family was poor. I will not become a political star. Even if I become a factory manager in the future, I will still be a migrant worker. "
"Do you think it is feasible to implement full-time NPC deputies and let them listen to the problems reflected by migrant workers and help them solve problems?" The reporter asked. Hu Xiaoyan, however, said that once the deputies are full-time, sitting in the office all day and divorced from the migrant workers, the NPC deputies will lose their original meaning. "The NPC deputies are full-time, is that still a NPC deputy?"