Four Generations of One Family, Guarding the Border for 76 Years! "Where We Stand Is China"

The Pamir Plateau in Xinjiang

Deep in the Wakhan Corridor

stands a special "family instruction stone"

"Always follow the Communist Party

Be patriotic and guard the border for a lifetime"

This is a testament to a family of four generations

who have guarded the border for over 70 years

It is a legacy, and also a promise

He carved the "family instruction" on the giant stone

Encouraging future generations to protect the land of the motherland

In the movie "The Guests on the Iceberg"

The charging soldier Amir

is based on Kader Abdukirim

He was one of the first PLA soldiers from the Tajik ethnic group

In border combat

he was injured but still insisted on completing his mission

and was awarded first-class merit

After retiring, Kader returned to the Pamir Plateau

choosing to guard the border in the high-altitude region

He remembered the family instruction set by his father, who was also a border guard

and went to the junction of four countries in the Wakhan Corridor

at an altitude of 4,700 meters

to personally carve the family instruction on a giant stone

encouraging future generations to protect the land of the motherland

"I hope my descendants

will always follow the Communist Party

and be patriotic and guard the border for a lifetime"

"Where we stand

is China"

"Where we stand is China"

The baton of border guarding has passed to Kader's son

Longjike Kader

He served in the plateau for 30 years

After retiring, he chose to stay in the Pamir Plateau

as a volunteer border guard

and has been guarding for another 18 years

In 2021, he was named the "Most Beautiful Retired Soldier" in the country

Longjike Kader

and his son Xiaogongni Longjike

drove to the plateau at an altitude of 4,700 meters

He wants to stand in front of the "family instruction stone" to comfort his father

The family instruction remains

and the descendants guarding the border are still here

Standing in front of the stone, he pointed around

"This is the Wakhan Corridor, this is Pakistan

The direction of this road is Afghanistan

Beyond the snowy mountains behind is Tajikistan

Where we stand is China"

"The will of our ancestors

must be passed down"

"The will of our ancestors must be passed down"

From his great-grandfather serving as a guide for the PLA

to guarding the border in the Pamir Plateau

Xiaogongni Longjike is the fourth generation of border guards in the family

The average altitude here exceeds 4,600 meters

and there are more than 300 days a year

with winds above level 6

Xiaogongni, who is currently the deputy director of the Paike Border Police Station

has been stationed in the Wakhan Corridor for the 14th year

In front of the "family instruction stone"

Xiaogongni solemnly made a promise

"I will definitely pass down the will of my ancestors"

A family of four generations

spanning over 70 years of border guarding stories

is a microcosm of the countless forces guarding the border

Our country has over 22,000 kilometers of land borders

and over 18,000 kilometers of continental coastline

Along the long border

border defense soldiers, border police, militia, and volunteer border guards

stand shoulder to shoulder with people of all ethnic groups

guarding the stable lives of 1.4 billion Chinese people

What they have jointly built

is an indestructible national defense barrier