China-Singapore Jingwei client, June 24 (Wei Wei) "I have been laying floors in the company for more than a week, and I worry that I need to check the nucleic acid report when I leave Beijing." Fan Yi, who lives in Tianjin and works in Beijing, told the China-Singapore Jingwei client.
Like Fan Yi, cross-city commuters who travel between Beijing-Tianjin and Beijing-Hebei are a special group. The sudden outbreak in Beijing disrupted their usual commute. Among them, some choose to lay floors in the company, some temporarily move to hotels in Beijing and dare not go home, and others choose to work from home. China-Singapore Jingwei reporter interviewed several commuters, the following is their readme:
"I didn't go home for a week, so I had to make a floor in the company and go to the hotel to take a shower"
Fan Yi A one-and-a-half month commute from a large Internet company in Beijing
I work for an internet company near Xuanwumen in Xicheng District, and my home is in Tianjin. In fact, I just returned to Beijing to work for more than a month. Before that I had been working in the South. Because I was too far away from home, I applied with the company to transfer back to Beijing at the end of last year.
The original mobilization procedures have been completed, and will be transferred to Beijing after the Spring Festival, but because of the delay of the epidemic, it has been delayed until the epidemic prevention and control level in some areas of Beijing was reduced to three levels in May.
Originally, I planned to rent a house near Beijing South Railway Station. I also asked a few intermediaries to ask, but the intermediary said that the community does not allow outsiders to enter. If I want to stay, I must stay at home for 14 days. Isolation for 14 days was not realistic, and the company could not wait so long, so I gave up renting the house and decided to rent the house after the company would wait for a month or two and wait for the epidemic to completely pass.
Our company works six days a week and only takes one day off Saturday. Usually I go home 2 or 3 times a week, and I will "floor" in the company after get off work at other times. Strictly speaking, it is not a "ground floor". Company colleagues have a half-meter-wide camp bed during lunch break. I greet my colleagues and sleep here at night.
On the Beijing-Tianjin intercity train that is off-duty on June 15, most of the cars are vacant. Source: China-Singapore Jingwei Weiwei
Recently, there have been newly confirmed cases of new coronavirus in Beijing. I have not been home for more than a week since last week. I heard before that there are reports of negative nucleic acid tests in Beijing. Several colleagues around me have done nucleic acid tests, but they are all community organizations. I also called several testing institutions, but I didn’t accept personal appointments. An agency said that even if the appointment is successful, the test report will take three or four days to produce the result.
Since he can't go to Beijing, he can only continue to "lay the ground" in his work unit. The weather was cooler in May before, and you can take a break two or three times a week.
Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, although the problem of sleeping can be overcome, it is really unbearable not to take a bath, so I can only stay at the hotel one night every other day. I also saw the news that people in Beijing's middle and high-risk areas are prohibited from leaving Beijing. Our company is in a low-risk area, but I don't dare to walk around casually. I can only find a place in low-risk areas.
The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. I want to go home once. The child is more than two years old this year, and I miss her very much. On Monday (June 22), I specifically called Beijing South Railway Station to ask if I need a nucleic acid test report when I leave Beijing during the Dragon Boat Festival. The staff said they had removed the nucleic acid test point on the afternoon of the 19th. On Tuesday (June 23), I called again to confirm that the staff of Beijing South Railway Station said that the nucleic acid test report began to be checked at 5:00 on June 23, and no nucleic acid test negative report could not leave Beijing within 7 days. But she also said that the policy may also be adjusted according to the epidemic situation in Beijing.
In the early morning peak in May, the staff at the subway entrance of Beijing South Railway Station was measuring body temperature Source: China-Singapore Jingwei Weiwei
I plan to try it at Beijing South Railway Station after get off work on Wednesday (June 24). I will try my luck. If not, try it again on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival on Thursday. My family also helped me ask the Tianjin neighborhood committee. The other party said that in low-risk areas, you only need to take a temperature and check the health code. You can enter the community with the green code.
If it is really impossible to leave Beijing, you can only stay in Beijing temporarily, but it is only then that the life of the hotel and the company's two points and one line do not know how long it will take to end.
"Afraid of being called out for isolation, I moved to the hotel quickly"
Wu Xin Beijing media work commute time 4 years
I have commuted between Beijing and Yanjiao for more than 4 years. The reason why I bought a house in Yanjiao was to take into account the child’s hukou problem. My husband and I did not have a Beijing hukou. Even if I bought a house in Beijing, I couldn’t solve the problem of the child’s schooling. I will become a left-behind child, and it doesn't matter if I work hard.
After getting up at 6 a.m. every morning, I set off for a simple breakfast. I took Kuai 815 to get off at Langjiayuan, transferred to Metro Line 1, then transferred to Line 2, and finally arrived at the unit, about 2 hours one way.
The epidemic increased my commuting time again. At the beginning of the resumption of work, the bus and Baimiao checkpoint will be tested twice. Before getting on the bus, the bus guards will measure body temperature one by one, and they will be asked to get off without wearing a mask. A bus lane has also been opened for checking ID cards and measuring body temperature. Because the timing of the security check is not certain, I got up half an hour earlier to ensure that I would not be late for work.
Last Saturday (June 20) morning, I opened my phone and a news feed popped up. I suddenly found that the street where the company is located was upgraded to a medium-risk area. Immediately after I saw the notice in the community group, people in the medium- and high-risk areas were going. Concentrated isolation observation for 14 days. The company did not notify the home office, I will continue to work on Monday.
So, after discussing with my family, I quickly packed my things and moved to a hotel in Beijing. The hotel can check in only by checking the health treasure. For the past two days on the weekend, I have been inquiring about the relevant policies. In the end, whether people working in high- and high-risk areas are street people or whether they need to be quarantined for 14 days, but no clear statement has been found.
There is also news spreading in the circle of friends: leaving Beijing needs to hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 7 days, and the office workers in Yanjiao Group are "anxious and crazy." The result of nucleic acid test will be available in about 4 days. The validity period is only 7 days. It is still difficult to make an appointment. What should I do? I secretly rejoiced that I moved to the hotel earlier to avoid these troubles.
On the morning of Monday (June 22), I saw that many people in the commuter group in Yanjiao still went to work as usual, and the road to Beijing was not affected. Some people stayed at home and watched on Monday because they were worried about not being able to return home. .
Entering Beijing is easy, leaving Beijing becomes a problem. Throughout the day, everyone in the group discussed whether or not a nucleic acid report was needed to leave Beijing. I saw various forwarded news and notices in the group. Some people deliberately ran to the Baimiao checkpoint to ask the staff, and also recorded a small video. In the video, he asked if the other party needed a nucleic acid report. The staff said commuting Personnel need to have "three certificates": residence certificate, work certificate and nucleic acid negative certificate, but the nucleic acid test can not be restricted within 7 days. A video sent by some people showed that the nucleic acid report was indeed checked during the day.
A Yanjiao commuter WeChat group discusses whether leaving Beijing needs nucleic acid Report source: provided by the interviewee
All kinds of news are overwhelming, true and false. At the end of get off work, someone in the group sent a message saying that Beijing-Hebei commuters could leave Beijing by scanning their ID cards, and some returned to Yanjiao with a try mentality.
Qunyou said that the road back to Yanjiao was extremely blocked. The three-kilometer journey was completely blocked for an hour, but no nucleic acid test report was checked. Perhaps because many commuters did not get the nucleic acid report, they did not check it.
At 22:25 on the evening of June 23, a long line lined up at the Beijing Baimiao checkpoint out of the Beijing checkpoint. Source: China-Singapore Jingwei Song Yafen
After leaving get off work on Tuesday (June 23), I rushed to the testing institution to do a nucleic acid test. The staff said it would take three or four days to get the results. I think it would be more convenient to have a nucleic acid report, and it is also responsible for family members and people around me.
"One month after I resumed work, I started working at home again"
Ren Xi, a Beijing auto parts manufacturing company commute for 6 years
The epidemic might be a blessing to me. I am from Tianjin. I just started working in Tianjin after graduation. After working for a period of time, I felt that I had limited room to rise. In 2014, I moved to an auto parts manufacturing company in Yizhuang, Beijing, and I started my life in Shuangcheng.
During this period, I also experienced the whole process of singleness, love and marriage. When I was single, I rented a house in Beijing and returned to Tianjin to see my parents on the weekend. The problem of commuting was not serious. After falling in love, my girlfriend and I often quarreled because of too little companionship time. I slowly began to coordinate to overcome the problems in the middle, from once a week to two or three times a week. Taking into account the cost after marriage, I no longer rent a house in Beijing.
Because I live in the Eco-City of Binhai New Area, which is very far from the high-speed rail station, I can only drive to and from get off work. But driving back and forth on that day was too dangerous. If I drove to Beijing in the morning, it would be particularly sleepy to drive back in the afternoon, so I stayed at a hotel near the company for one night, and then returned to Tianjin after get off work the next day.
For people who commute, entering Beijing checkpoints has been a nightmare for many years. If traffic jams are fine, traffic jams do not know how long they will be delayed. There was a particularly early meeting on Monday. I think it may be too late in the morning, so I departed from home early at 4 pm on Sunday. I didn’t expect Sunday night to be more blocked than Monday morning. It was blocked for about three hours, and it was almost 21: 00 to the company.
After the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia outbreak this year, the company notified us of home office work in February. The commuting life over the years has indeed been relatively hard, and home office work can also have more time to accompany family members. However, after a long period of time, there will be a feeling of isolation, and remote coordination of some tasks is still not convenient.
After mid-May, I slowly resumed commuting to and from get off work. Colleagues who haven't seen me for a long time felt extremely cordial. Unexpectedly, there was another epidemic in Beijing in June. I saw a notice in a community group in Tianjin. Those who have been to the new market in Beijing since May 30 should report it voluntarily and conduct nucleic acid testing.
I was lucky. I went to Beijing at the end of May and went on a business trip in early June. After I originally came back, I planned to go to the office in Beijing on June 15 to end my business trip. I just received a notice from the company that I would not have to go back to Beijing and continue to work from home. The company said the time to end home office is uncertain.
I am more optimistic about the epidemic in Beijing. It seems that it should not last too long. I believe that normal commuting may resume in mid-July. (Sino-Singapore Jingwei APP)
(Fan Yi, Wu Xin, and Ren Xi in the text are all pseudonyms at the request of interviewees)
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