[Explanation] On the afternoon of October 22, at a cigarette butt recycling station in Wanbolin District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, local workers in difficulties queued up and weighed bags of cigarette butts. The staff at the cigarette butt recycling station converted the weight into the number of cigarette butts. The results of the workers in difficulty picking up cigarette butts in a week are counted.

　　[Concurrent period] Staff of the Federation of Trade Unions of Wanbolin District, Taiyuan City: 1089 (grams), which is less than 5000 (units), (net weight) first count as 4000 (units).

　　[Explanation] In 2019, the Taiyuan City Federation of Trade Unions organized needy employees to carry out the "Cigarette Butt Revolution" activity.

Employees in difficulties sign up voluntarily, and after screening, they can receive subsidies for the "cigarette butt revolution" by picking up cigarette butts.

Since the launch of the activity, a total of 256 employee families with difficulties in establishing a file and 1165 families with relatively difficult employees have participated.

In order to facilitate the statistics, local labor union staff have specially calculated and calculated the weight after converting the weight into the number of cigarette butts. During the "cigarette butt revolution" activity, a total of more than 35 million cigarette butts were picked up by employees in difficulty in one year.

　　The staff of the cigarette butt recycling station concentrates one day a week to count and recycle the number of cigarette butts picked up by employees in difficulties in the county (city, district), and register them one by one. The subsidy is paid monthly, and the number of cigarette butts picked up per person per month is 30,000 For the part below the number, every 100 cigarette butts can be exchanged for 15 yuan; for the part with more than 30,000 cigarette butts picked up, the reward for every 5000 cigarette butts is exchanged for 150 yuan; if the number of cigarette butts exceeds 50,000, the reward is exchanged for 200 yuan.

　　Guo Pengfei is an employee of Taiyuan No. 3 Transportation Company, 45 years old this year.

　　[Concurrent period] Guo Pengfei, an employee in difficulty:

　　In 2015, after lying on the bed and falling to the ground, I went to the hospital to check for a type of brain tumor. After the operation in November, I stayed on rest.

From June last year to now, we picked up 30,000 a month, and the basic subsidy was more than 4,000.

　　[Explanation] For employees in difficulties who cannot participate in the "Cigarette Butt Revolution" due to physical reasons, their family members can participate.

There were also young faces in the team that day.

　　[Concurrent period] Li Weijie, a family member of an employee in difficulty:

　　My name is Li Weijie and I am 22 years old. I graduated from Shanxi Sports Vocational College last year. The situation in my family is that my dad had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in 2015 and has been ill in bed. It happened because of the epidemic, from graduation last year to now. , Did not find a suitable job, and learned about the cigarette butt revolution volunteer activities provided by the labor union and the Service Workers Service Center. I am also very happy to participate in such an activity, which can increase my knowledge and receive subsidies for difficulties. Relieve a little financial pressure for the family.

　　[Explanation] Cigarette butts picked up by employees in difficulty will be promptly destroyed at the sanitation station after unified registration.

　　[Concurrent] Zhang Ruoxi, vice chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Wanbolin District, Taiyuan:

　　The same person on the same section of the road last year, he may pick up 500 cigarette butts per hour normally, and more than 700 cigarette butts, but this year, we found that only 200 cigarette butts were picked up. Butts.

This not only shows that this year's efforts to create (build a national civilized) city (city) are great, it also shows that the quality of our citizens is also improving.

　　Qu Lixia Li Tingyao reports from Taiyuan, Shanxi

Editor in charge: [Li Ji]