China News Service, Hefei, February 13th (Liu Honghe, Shao Shuai, Deng Jie) According to the news of the China Railway Fourth Bureau headquartered in Hefei, Anhui on the 13th: large-scale equipment roars, tower cranes stand up, and lights are bright... Starting from the second day of the Chinese New Year, the distance from the motherland The builders of various construction projects in the Angola region of China Railway Fourth Bureau, which are thousands of miles away, are still fighting on the front line of construction, fulfilling the "mission" of assisting the construction of Angola, and the overseas projects "do not close" during the Spring Festival.
Construction workers repair X-ray machines at the Angola General Hospital project.
Photo by Shao Shuai
At 1 a.m. local time on February 3, the construction site of the expansion project of the raw water diversion system of the Southeast Luanda Water Purification Plant of China Railway Fourth Bureau was brightly lit.
"In order to complete the water supply work in the catchment area before the official linkage and commissioning of the pumps, from the second day of the new year, all the staff of the project department gave up rest, stuck to their posts, and completed the construction tasks efficiently." said Wang Jinghu, executive deputy manager of the project, "during the Spring Festival, We successfully sent the mains power into the power distribution room through debugging, and sampled the value of the fire protection system display. At present, two water pumps have been started and successfully run without load. The no-load debugging work of the remaining water pumps and the water pump flushing system will also be Synchronized to complete the linkage."
Construction workers are debugging equipment at the Angola General Hospital.
Photo by Shao Shuai
According to reports, the Southeast Luanda Water Purification Plant is a major local livelihood project. The construction content includes three parts: water diversion open channel, water pumping station and water pipeline.
Among them, the water intake pump station includes a 960-square-meter steel structure maintenance warehouse, a water intake pump room with a water supply of 400,000 m²/d, and a matching power distribution room and a substation. The total length of the water pipeline is 17.944km. The scale is large, the pipelines along the line are long, and the construction scope is wide.
After the project is completed, it will solve the livelihood problems of 3.5 million residents in the southeastern part of Angola such as water shortage.
Chinese employees are teaching Angolan employees how to make dumplings.
Photo by Shao Shuai
"Others gain three pounds during the festival, but I lose 20 pounds during the festival!" Xue Zhiqiang, the project construction team leader, joked profusely after repairing the equipment.
This is not a joke, every Chinese employee fighting in Angola is a brave rebel.
Under the epidemic, overseas builders stick to their posts and make every effort to ensure the construction of overseas projects related to the "Belt and Road". They have been sticking to their posts under the hot and scorching sun for a long time and have undergone "baking tests", explaining the responsibilities and responsibilities of China's central enterprises with sweat.
Construction workers debug the water pump of the Southeast Water Works project at night.
Photo by Shao Shuai
Also racing against time is the Chinese maintenance team in the technical assistance project of the Luanda Provincial General Hospital.
As a key public medical institution in Gamama District, Luanda, Angola, the technical assistance project of Luanda General Hospital is one of the important projects aided by the Chinese government to build Angola.
During the Chinese Lunar New Year, the on-site maintenance team also gave up rest and vacation, and carried out comprehensive maintenance on the hospital's floor coils, power distribution cabinet equipment, X-ray machines and other equipment and facilities.
The normal operation of the hospital has effectively alleviated the shortage of local medical resources and improved the level of local medical services.
Chinese employees are pasting Spring Festival couplets in the project department.
Photo by Shao Shuai
In order to let the overseas builders have a ceremonial Spring Festival, the project department also organizes employees to paste Spring Festival couplets and make dumplings in their spare time to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Project employees have expressed that in extraordinary times, even though the distance is thousands of mountains and rivers, the place where there are Chinese people has the taste of the New Year.
Everyone turned their deep thoughts for their families into high enthusiasm for construction, continued to show the world the level of Chinese construction and Chinese craftsmanship skills, and made unremitting efforts to promote the construction of the "Belt and Road"!
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