Bamu and Her Improved Life

　February 4, 2021
Bamu Yubumu is interviewed by Xinhua in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 22, 2021. A young mother leaned arduously forward to balance the weight of an oversized luggage on her back and a tiny baby in her arm, as she fought her steps ahead. This was the image that Xinhua reporter Zhou Ke captured near the Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 30, 2010. The photo entitled "Baby, Mom Takes You Home" touched the hearts of millions when it made headline on hundreds of media across the country. No one, however, was able to identify this brave and perseverant mother until Zhou Ke managed to locate her after 11 years of unremitting quest. Bamu Yubumu, now 32 and a mother of four children, is a resident in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province. She and her family used to live in an obsolete house with leaking roof at a village of barren lands, and had to work as hard laborers along with her husband away from her hometown to make both ends meet. The only connection between Taoyuan Village and the outer world then was a muddy trail. Bamu recalled that most babies were born at home, and quite a few of them failed to get cure in time when they fell ill. The baby, Bamu's second daughter who was pictured in Bamu's arm in 2010, was ill then, and deceased five months later. The Bamu's became an officially registered household in poverty in 2014, and later Bamu and her husband started to learn tobacco planting. The couple saw their produces doubled in a few years with annual income swelling by nearly 10 times. The family built their new residence in 2019, and saw the annual income hitting 100,000 yuan (about 15,500 U.S. dollars) in 2020, shaking off poverty from then on. Since 2013, Bamu has given birth to another three children. All the babies were born at the county hospital free of charge. Her first daughter Wuqi Labumu is now in junior high school, her second daughter in primary school, and her first son in kindergarten. [Xinhua/Zhou Ke]

 

Aerial photo taken on Jan. 21, 2021 shows a general view of Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province. [Xinhua/Li Sijia]

 

In this combo photo taken on Jan. 20, 2021, the upper part shows Wuqi Labumu, eldest daughter of Bamu Yubumu, introducing an old house where she used to live; the lower part shows Wuqi Labumu arranging her clothes in her new residence at Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province. [Xinhua/Zhou Ke]

 

Bamu Yubumu walks with her children on a newly paved concrete road in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 22, 2021. [Xinhua/Zhou Ke]

 

In this combo photo taken on Jan. 21, 2021, the upper part shows an old village where Bamu Yubumu used to live; the lower part shows Taoyuan Village where Bamu Yubumu lives now in Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province. [Xinhua/Li Sijia]

 

Wuqi Buji (2nd L), son of Bamu Yubumu, plays the guitar near his residence in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 20, 2021. [Xinhua/Zhou Ke]

 

In this combo photo taken on Jan. 22, 2021, the upper part shows Bamu Yubumu and her children standing in front of the old house she used to live; the lower part shows they in front of their new residence in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province. [Xinhua/Zhou Ke]

 

Wuqi Labumu, the eldest daughter of Bamu Yubumu, attends class at a junior high school in Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 22, 2021. [Xinhua/Zhou Ke]

 

Bamu Yubumu poses for photos with Zhou Ke, a reporter of Xinhua, in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 21, 2021. [Xinhua/Li Sijia]

 

Bamu Yubumu (C) selects new clothes for her children at a street market in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 22, 2021. [Xinhua/Zhou Ke]

 

(Source: Xinhua)

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