CCTV network news (reporter Wang Jingyuan Wang Dongxue) : "Others come to Tibet to purify their hearts, I come to Tibet to purify Tibet." Xiao Xin (pseudonym) is a self-media travel blogger. In April this year, he began to pick up garbage while traveling. He has already crossed the Yunnan-Tibet Line and the Sichuan-Tibet Line. On the day of the interview, he had been on the road for 76 days and picked up more than 500 bags of garbage.

Xiao Xin is 36 years old and a native of Cangzhou, Hebei Province. On April 10, he set off from Dali and drove a motorhome into Xizang Province alone, picking up garbage by the side of a road.

As a traveler, Xiao Xin had been to Tibet many times before. The first time he came to Tibet was in 2011. Xiao Xin thought that although the transportation was difficult, most tourists visited Tibet with a sense of awe and did not litter. In recent years, however, he has noticed an increasing amount of white trash along National Highway 318, which is "quite disturbing and uncomfortable".

The most impressive picture of Xiao Xin is that he passed the sister lake on the way from Litang to Batang, "very beautiful, tabletop kind of scenery", but on the side of the lake, there are a lot of oxygen bottles, plastic bottles and other garbage. Xiao Xin said that he had never seen this side of the lake before, "such a beautiful place, even people have the heart to throw garbage".

After starting to pick up trash while traveling, Xiao Xin usually stops and starts to pick up trash wherever he sees a lot of trash along the way. Garbage is commonly distributed in backwater bays, bushes, woods, and some nature reserves. Most of the trash is white trash such as plastic bottles, bags and plastic foam. In addition, there are many daily necessities such as shoes discarded by tourists.

Xiao Xin mentioned that he had seen statistics from a Chinese public welfare organization, to the effect that each person drinks three bottles of water a day when visiting Tibet, but only one plastic bottle ends up in the garbage bin, and the other two are thrown away casually.

Every time after picking up garbage, Xiao Xin would use an electric car or RV to pull the garbage bags to a nearby place with garbage bins. He joked that his RV had become a garbage truck. Villages along the way organize garbage patrol trucks every few days, and sanitation personnel will gather the garbage bags and pull them to the garbage treatment plant. Not long ago, some local party cadres saw him picking up garbage on the side of the road and specially contacted the sanitation truck to take the garbage away.

Xiao Xin described the experience of picking up garbage as a process of self-cultivation. He first picked up garbage in the Yunnan Golden Monkey Reserve, where the high altitude, strong wind and strong ultraviolet light caused his fingers and lips to become dry and cracked. Most of the vegetation in the high-altitude area is prickly, so he was often pricked when picking up garbage. The garbage on the top of the mountain is relatively scattered, so picking up garbage every day is a lot of physical exertion.

He remembers the first time he saw the mountain of garbage, he called his wife and "thought it was impossible, it was too much, one person would have to pick it up for a week". As he picked up more trash, he became calmer, "when you see your grade and see it return to what it was, it really makes you happy".

In the first month when he started shooting videos and broadcasting garbage picking, Xiao Xin had almost no income, "only earning 6.90 yuan in more than 20 days". In the comments section of his short videos, many netizens initially doubted that he was making a show. Later, more and more netizens began to pay attention and support him.

Xiao Xin said that he hopes to change more people's awareness and let more people know about the fragility of Tibet's ecology through his own actions, so as to reduce some uncivilized phenomena and protect the local natural environment. Xin's current goal is to influence 100 people to spontaneously pick up garbage, a goal he believes he can achieve soon, after which he plans to devote himself to environmental advocacy.

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