A young woman struggles to stay upright under the weight of an enormous bag spilling over with blankets and bedding, cradling a baby in one arm and keeping hold of a backpack in the other as she shuffles towards her destination.
If a single photograph could encapsulate a decades-long Chinese government policy that has lifted 700 million out of poverty, this was it. For years after he shot the image, photographer and journalist Zhou Ke struggled to track down the determined young mother it depicts.
The moment was captured at Nanchang railway station in Jiangxi province in the country’s southeast on January 30, 2010, during the Spring Festival travel rush, when hundreds of millions of Chinese people travel from cities to their ancestral homes in rural areas for Lunar New Year family reunions.
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FUZHOU, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) Right after the New Year holiday of the Yi ethnic group, Bamu Yubumu and her husband Wuqi Shiqie left their hometown in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China s Sichuan Province, for a new profession of sea cucumber cultivation in the coastal Fujian Province.
Bamu was known as a migrant mother in an iconic photo during a Spring Festival travel rush 11 years ago. The photo, with her image carrying a huge bag on her back and a small baby in her arm, quickly went viral on the Internet, and her determined eyes pulled at the heartstrings of countless people.
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Her photo touched millions
Feb 03, 2021, 11:24
Bamu Yubumu holds her daughter while carrying a huge package stuffed with items on her back touched the hearts of millions in this photo taken on Jan 30, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua]
During the Spring Festival travel rush in 2010, a photo taken at a railway station in the eastern city of Nanchang that portrayed a young migrant worker on her way home holding her baby while carrying a huge bag stuffed with items on her back deeply touched the hearts of millions of people.
The photo,Baby, Mom Take You Home, made headlines in a lot of media outlets as a symbol of a mother s love.
Bamu and her improved life
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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. 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 f