[Explanation] 29-year-old Zhou Xingfu is a guide driver on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. He is mainly responsible for supervising and reminding the drivers to correct the trains on the spot. When encountering novices, he will also personally operate them to ensure the safe operation of the trains.
[Explanation] Zhou Xingfu was assigned to the Xining Locomotive Depot after graduating in 2013. After several years of experience and hard work, he became a coach driver from a locomotive driver. In July 2018, he took the initiative to invite Ying, and went to a more difficult place where few people were willing to go. Dunhuang Line.
[Concurrent] China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. Xining Locomotive Depot West Application Workshop, instructing driver Zhou Xingfu
The environment is relatively harsh, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the wind in the four seasons is also relatively large. If you contact your family, you can only get in touch with your family through internal phone.
There is no signal in the entire section from Qinglonggou to Mahai, including Mahai sometimes its signal is also unstable, almost no signal, thinking that he is a young man, and then voluntarily apply to the Dunhuang line to act as a flight attendant instructor. .
[Explanation] Zhou Xingfu told reporters that there are 15 stations on the Dunhuang line, with a total length of about 600 kilometers. The route is complex and changeable from the high-cold and high-altitude Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the deserted Gobi Desert. Therefore, guiding drivers requires a strong sense of responsibility and With excellent business ability, he needs 7 to 10 days for each attendance. During this period, he has to run three or four times, and each trip has to work 12 hours in a train driver's cab that is only three or four square meters.
[Concurrent] China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. Xining Locomotive Depot West Application Workshop, instructing driver Zhou Xingfu
Along the way, we have to pass through Huangyuan of Xining City, as well as mountain areas, Haibei pastures, snow-capped grasslands, and deserts without man’s land.
[Commentary] Zhang Bodong and Zhou Xingfu are the same group of locomotive drivers who went to work on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and they are also friends who have known each other for seven years. He said that in private, everyone is called Zhou Xingfu "the little prince of the night shift."
As a locomotive driver, Zhang Bodong can change shifts every four hours, but Zhou Xingfu, as a guide driver, must continuously supervise the safe operation of the shifted drivers. Therefore, he must remain on his post during the day and night until the train arrives.
[Concurrent] China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. Xining Locomotive Depot West Application Workshop, instructing driver Zhou Xingfu
It has now arrived at Mahai Station, the last station of this train. The time is 3:50 in the morning, and the current (outdoor) temperature has reached minus 20 degrees. This is the warmest day in recent times.
At the coldest time, the temperature can reach approximately minus 30 degrees.
[Explanation] Due to the special nature of his work, Zhou Xingfu, who has worked on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway for seven years, never returned home on New Year's Eve.
[Concurrent] China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. Xining Locomotive Depot West Application Workshop, instructing driver Zhou Xingfu
The working hours each year are about 10 and a half months, and I can only rest at home for about 30 to 45 days. Anyway, I owe a lot to my family because I can’t spend a long time with my family, especially children and daughter-in-law.
[Explanation] Zhou Xingfu said, I am very grateful to my family for their understanding and support. Like most of the staff on the Qinghai-Tibet line, they insist on because of their love, so where there is a railway, it is home.
Reporter Liu Yi reports from Qinghai
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]