Xu Xiujuan is originally from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, and is a Manchu.

She was born into a family of crane tamers.

When he was 17 years old, he went to Zhalong Nature Reserve in Qiqihar City with his father as a temporary worker, responsible for raising and taming cranes.

In 1983, she was responsible for raising baby cranes there, and the survival rate of the baby cranes reached 100%.

Therefore, the technology of crane hatching, raising and taming cranes in Zhalong Nature Reserve has become famous both at home and abroad.

George Achibo, chairman of the International Crane Foundation, visited and repeatedly said "OK".

Xu Xiujuan has also attracted attention from the film and television industry and the press. Public opinion calls her "China's first crane-taming girl."

In May 1986, Xu Xiujuan had just graduated from Northeast Forestry University when she received an invitation from the Yancheng Nature Reserve, hoping that she could work on the Sheyang tidal flat.

Yancheng Nature Reserve echoes Zhalong, one in the south and one in the north. It is the main wintering place for red-crowned cranes. If a non-migrating wild population of red-crowned cranes can be established here, it will be a major breakthrough. Perhaps this will be a world-class

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For the sake of her career, Xu Xiujuan persuaded her grandmother, parents and younger siblings to leave the Qiqihar Zalong Reserve, which she was familiar with, and traveled south alone to Sheyang. At that time, the best building in Hechang was an abandoned

The outpost has two floors, each floor less than 6 square meters.

There is no doubt that since this is a paradise for birds, it cannot be the prosperous place that humans yearn for.

Needless to say, it is inaccessible, and the roaring sea wind, roaring tides, and chirping of birds and animals are a must-have symphony. The conditions are even worse than Xu Xiujuan expected.

But Miss Xiujuan didn't flinch or flinch at all, and immediately started working.

Without advanced incubation equipment, they built an earthen kang square, and on the kang were placed the treasures Xu Xiujuan brought from Zhalongbei - crane eggs.

She and her two assistants guarded them day and night, for fear that the temperature would be out of control - they couldn't be hot or cold, these babies were so cute! Finally one day, a "click" sound came from inside an eggshell.

The sound was so low, so low that it was lighter than the sound of a match falling to the ground; the sound was so high-pitched, so high-pitched that it could penetrate the clouds, split the silk, and reach beyond the sky.

This sound is the march before the birth of a new life.

This sound heralds the emergence of a miracle: the successful hatching of red-crowned cranes in the low-latitude wintering area - this is a world-class problem! In October 1964, Xu Xiujuan was born into a Manchu fishermen family in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.

Received a good family education.

In August 1981, Xu Xiujuan, who was just 17 years old, followed her father Xu Tielin to Zhalong Nature Reserve to raise cranes.

Raising cranes is the most tiring job in the reserve.

Xu Xiujuan did an excellent job in carrying water, rationing food, feeding cranes, releasing cranes, cleaning crane houses, diagnosing, treating and caring for sick cranes. The survival rate of the young cranes she raised alone reached 100%.

The tamed crane can dance and fly under command.

National leaders visited the nature reserve and watched Xu Xiujuan's crane taming performance. The crane taming skills of Zhalong Nature Reserve became famous both at home and abroad.

In May 1986, after Xu Xiujuan completed her two-year studies at the Wildlife Department of Northeast Forestry University, she left her hometown and came to work in the Yancheng Tidal Flat Rare Bird Nature Reserve in Jiangsu.

This is the main wintering ground for red-crowned cranes. There are large swamps covered with reeds and saltgrass. A Fudui River running from north to south naturally separates the swamps from the villages. It is sparsely visited and is an ideal habitat for red-crowned cranes.

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In the Yancheng Reserve, Xu Xiujuan's talents were fully utilized.

And use the theoretical knowledge learned to study crane raising techniques.

At the Third China Crane Joint Protection Committee meeting held in 1986, the paper written by Xu Xiujuan was well received by experts.

On September 15, 1987, one night when Xu Xiujuan had been working in Yancheng for one year and four months, she died in the Fudui River in search of a lost swan.

Xu Xiujuan is the first martyr in the line of duty of environmental protection in my country. She dedicated her 23-year-old youth to the crane breeding career that she loved and worked hard for all her life.

In order to commemorate this young crane-protecting angel, memorial halls and monuments were built in Yancheng, Jiangsu and Zhalong Nature Reserve in Qiqihar City to publicize Xu Xiujuan's deeds and inspire people's enthusiasm for loving nature, protecting wild animals, and living in harmony with nature.

In October 1964, Xu Xiujuan was born into a crane-raising family in Zhalongtun, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.

Her father is a crane conservation engineer in Zhalong Nature Reserve, and her mother has raised cranes in Zhalong Nature Reserve for 10 years.

Xu Xiujuan often helped her parents feed the baby cranes when she was a child, and she gradually fell in love with the red-crowned crane.

In 1981, due to the closure of the local middle school and high school, 17-year-old Xu Xiujuan went to Zhalong Nature Reserve to raise cranes with her father, becoming the first girl to raise cranes in my country.

She quickly mastered a complete set of techniques for raising, grazing, breeding, hatching, and brooding of rare birds such as red-crowned cranes, white-naped cranes, and wan-feathered cranes. The survival rate of the young cranes she raised reached 100%.

Her outstanding work was praised by Dr. Archibald, President of the International Crane Foundation.

In March 1985, Xu Xiujuan went to the Wildlife Department of Northeast Forestry University to study at her own expense.

Although the school took her practical difficulties into account and exempted her from half of her tuition fees, she still couldn't afford 6 cents a day for food and had been relying on steamed buns and pickles to maintain her intense study every day.