【编者按】2025年是中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利80周年。在这场关乎民族存续的战争中，来自五洲四海的国际友人，不畏艰险远渡重洋，以医疗救助、战地报道、技术支援等多种形式投身这场民族解放事业。大道不孤，白求恩大夫的手术刀、斯诺的新闻笔、拉贝的安全区等都是跨越国界的生命印记。《山河故人远道来》国际传播系列报道，以中英双语视频结合AI动画技术再现历史细节，致敬跨越国界的信念之光。
【Editor's Note】
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. In this war that concerned the survival of the nation, international friends from all over the world braved dangers and crossed the seas to join the cause of national liberation in various forms such as medical aid, war reporting, and technical support. The path of righteousness is not lonely. Dr. Bethune's scalpel, Snow's journalistic pen, and Rabe's safety zone are all life marks that transcend national borders. The international communication series "From Afar Came the Unforgotten" uses bilingual Chinese-English videos combined with AI animation technology to reproduce historical details and pay tribute to the light of belief that transcends national borders.
在中华民族浴血抗敌的烽火岁月里，有一簇星火，燃于危难，照亮后方。这簇星火名为“工合”，而点燃它的重要擎炬者，是一位来自新西兰的友人：路易·艾黎。
烽火淬炼，锻造工业脊梁
1927年4月21日，路易·艾黎乘坐“卡卢鲁”号货轮，经香港到达上海十六铺码头，这是他第一次踏上中国的土地。
1935年，路易·艾黎和朋友在上海创办了中国第一份支持学生呼声和民族解放运动的英文刊物《中国呼声》，帮助宣传中国人民反对日本帝国主义斗争。
1937年，“八·一三事变”爆发，上海虹口和杨树浦遭到日军炮火的狂轰滥炸，工厂被毁，大批难民和失业工人流离失所。次年，路易·艾黎辞去工部局的职务，奔赴武汉，开展轰轰烈烈的工合运动。
“工合运动”是路易·艾黎同埃德加·斯诺夫妇等人倡导发起的，主旨是在非敌占区将失业工人和难民组织起来，建立工业生产合作社，进行生产救亡，解决军需民用，支援抗日战争。
1938年4月，上海成立了第一个工业合作社促进委员会。
此后，路易·艾黎一直致力于工合运动，至1940年，全国各地的工合组织遍布16个省，发展到1780多个，月产值达2400多万元，援助了二十多万失业者和难民，为抗战锻造起工业脊梁。
创办学校，为中国黎明育人才
艾黎的目光不仅聚焦于战时生产，更深谙民族复兴之基在人才。1941年，路易·艾黎在陕西凤县双石铺创办了西北的第一所培黎学校。“培黎”之名，寓意“为中国的黎明而培育人才”。
然而，随着日军向西推进和当时的政治形势，双石铺的办学受到干扰，迁校迫在眉睫。
1943年夏，路易·艾黎到玉门油田考察返途中，发现山丹县有煤，有粮，还有非常勤劳的人民，遂与时任校长乔治·何克商定将学校西迁到山丹。
艾黎把这次向西1100公里的迁校称为“小长征”，他们坐上“羊毛车”，带上铺盖卷和4大缸咸豆辣椒，迎着刺骨寒风艰难行进，最终抵达山丹。
他们在废弃的发塔寺和租来的几间房子里开始了新生活，“寺内门窗都被卸掉烧火用了，柱子也被饿马啃得坑坑洼洼……整个地方破烂不堪”，上课的教室“四壁透风”。
在山丹，学校主要招收贫苦人家的子弟，学生半天上课，半天劳动，奉行“手脑并用，创造分析”的校训。在短短几年时间内，建起了造纸、印刷、机械、化工、纺织、玻璃、皮革等20多个实习场地和1所医院。这些生产活动，催生了地方经济发展和民众思想解放。
火种永续，用一生守望中国的黎明
培黎，这所诞生于抗战烽火中的学校，探索半工半读、实践与理论结合的新型教育，为新中国培育了一大批生产一线的技术骨干和管理人才，也凝聚了艾黎大半生的心血。
艾黎，在中国生活、工作了60年，献出了自己的一生。
1987年12月27日，艾黎病逝。临终前，他嘱托义子将他的骨灰一半撒在他工作和生活的山丹四坝滩上，另一半安葬在山丹河畔的艾黎与何克陵园。
在遗嘱中，艾黎写道：“务请不要大张其事，这只不过是又一名战士在行进中过去了。”而病床边的桌子上，还放着他尚未完成的介绍中国的书。
倘若说白求恩的手术刀，救治的是前线将士的躯体；斯诺的新闻笔，记录的是不屈民族的呐喊；那么路易·艾黎的“扳手”，则在抗战的大后方拧紧了一颗颗维系民族工业命脉的螺丝。
他们，与中国人民一起抗战，他们的名字与故事，不仅留在了史册中，更铭记在我们的心中。
In the years of blood and fire during theChinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a spark was kindled amid crisis, illuminating the rear—this spark was known as the “Gung Ho” movement, and one of its key torchbearers was a friend from New Zealand: Rewi Alley.
Tempered in the Flames of War, Forging the Backbone of Industry
On April 21, 1927, Rewi Alley arrived in China for the first time, disembarking at Shanghai's Shiliupu Pier from the cargo ship "Kalulu" via Hong Kong.
In 1935, Alley and several friends launched China's first English-language journal to champion student voices and the cause of national liberation—Voice of China—helping to broadcast the Chinese people's struggle against Japanese imperialism.
After the outbreak of the August 13th Incident in 1937, Japanese artillery fire relentlessly bombed Hongkou and Yangshupu in Shanghai, destroying factories and leaving vast numbers of refugees and unemployed workers displaced. The following year, Rewi Alley resigned from his position at the Shanghai Municipal Council and went to Wuhan to launch the vigorous Gung Ho movement.
The Gung Ho movement—advocated and initiated by Alley together with Edgar Snow and his wife, among others—aimed to organize unemployed workers and refugees in non-occupied areas into industrial cooperatives, producing for national salvation, meeting both military and civilian needs, and sustaining the War of Resistance.
In April 1938, the first Committee for the Promotion of Industrial Cooperatives was established in Shanghai.
Thereafter Alley devoted himself entirely to the movement. By 1940, Gung Ho cooperatives had spread across sixteen provinces, numbering more than 1,780, with a monthly output worth over 24 million yuan, aiding more than 200,000 unemployed workers and refugees, and forging an industrial backbone for the war effort.
Founding Schools to Cultivate Talent for China's Dawn
Rewi Alley's vision extended beyond wartime production; he deeply understood that talent was the foundation of national rejuvenation. In 1941, he established the first Bailie School in Shuangshipu, Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province—the first of its kind in China's northwest. The name "Bailie" carried the meaning of "cultivating talent for China's dawn."
However, as Japanese forces advanced westward and amid the political climate of the time, the school's operations in Shuangshipu were disrupted, making relocation imperative.
In the summer of 1943, while returning from an inspection tour of the Yumen Oilfield, Rewi Alley discovered that Shandan County had coal, grain, and exceptionally hardworking people. He and then-principal George Hogg decided to move the school west to Shandan.
Alley referred to this 1,100-kilometer westward relocation as a "little Long March." They traveled in a "wool truck," carrying their bedding rolls and four large jars of pickled chili beans, trudging through biting winds until they finally reached Shandan.
They began their new life in the abandoned Fata Temple and a few rented rooms. "The doors and windows of the temple had been torn off and used for firewood, the pillars were gnawed and scarred by hungry horses… the whole place was in ruins." Their classrooms were "windblown from all sides."
In Shandan, the school primarily enrolled students from impoverished families. Pupils attended classes for half the day and engaged in labor the other half, adhering to the motto: "Combine Hands and Mind, Innovate and Analyze." Within just a few years, the school had established over 20 practical training workshops—including papermaking, printing, machinery, chemical engineering, textiles, glassmaking, and leatherworking—as well as a hospital. These productive activities spurred local economic development and emancipated minds among the people.
The Torch Lives On, A Lifetime Guarding China's Dawn
Bailie School, born in the flames of the War of Resistance, explored a new form of education that combined work with study and integrated practice with theory. It cultivated a large number of technical and managerial key personnel for New China's production lines and embodied the dedication of much of Rewi Alley's life.
Rewi Alley lived and worked in China for 60 years, devoting his entire life to the country.
On December 27, 1987, he passed away due to illness. Before his death, he asked his adopted son to scatter half of his ashes over Siba Beach in Shandan, where he had worked and lived, and to bury the other half in the Rewi Alley and George Hogg Memorial Park beside the Shandan River.
In his will, he wrote:"Please do not make a fuss—it is only another soldier passing by on the march." On the table beside his sickbed lay the unfinished manuscript of a book introducing China.
If Norman Bethune's scalpel healed the bodies of soldiers on the front lines, and Edgar Snow's pen recorded the cries of an unyielding nation, then Rewi Alley's "wrench" tightened the screws that sustained China's industrial lifeline in the war's rear.
Together, they stood with the Chinese people in the War of Resistanceagainst Japanese Aggression. Their names and stories are not only recorded in history—they are forever cherished in our hearts.
（部分素材来源：参考消息网 中工网 中国甘肃网）
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策划：魏鹏 辛然
文案：沙斯媛
翻译、配音：武玮佳
剪辑：马茜
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