(Walking to the grassroots level in the New Year) Visiting the "Raincoat Sister" and "Sichuan-Ebei Friendship Factory": Retrograde Wuhan returns to Sichuan and leads Hubei to build a mask factory

　　China News Service, Chengdu, February 9th (Shan Peng and Zhang Lang) "I have been outside this year, and I have no time to go home to visit my parents. This year, I have to accompany them to celebrate the New Year." A few days ago, in Chengdu’s "Sichuan-E Friendship Factory", "Sister Raincoat" "Liu Xian is busy arranging big and small affairs before the holiday in the factory.

Speaking of her parents, the Sichuan girl after the "95" had red eyes, and her eyes were full of debts.

　　"Chuan-E Friendship Factory" was founded by "raincoat sister" Liu Xian, and currently mainly produces medical masks.

On the last working day before the Spring Festival, workers gathered at the last end of the production line and quickly packed blue medical masks into boxes and packed them into boxes.

Diagonally opposite the packaging workshop is the express delivery workshop, and boxes of medical masks are sent from here to all parts of the country.

"Sister Yuyi" (third from right) packs masks with the workers.

Photo by Zhang Lang

　　During the 2020 new crown pneumonia epidemic, Liu Xian, also a "retrograde", was affectionately called the "raincoat sister" because he did not have protective clothing and chose to wear a raincoat to travel to major hospitals in Wuhan to deliver free meals to medical staff.

　　"After returning from Wuhan last year, I received a lot of letters for help. Some of them volunteered for the Wuhan epidemic. Others were from poor families and urgently needed work to solve their livelihood problems. It was difficult to refuse them." The original intention of the "factory", Liu Xian said frankly, was to help Hubei people who could not find a job due to the epidemic.

In May last year, the families of the first batch of employees who came to Sichuan from Hubei to Sichuan had greater financial difficulties.

Workers produce masks at the "Chuan-E Friendship Factory".

Photo by Zhang Lang

　　From plant decoration to production and operation, "Chuan-E Friendship Factory" only took 18 days.

The initial investment of the factory is high: production equipment, laboratories, production workshops that meet medical standards, in addition to staff salaries, food and accommodation expenses, etc.

All the burdens rested on Liu Xian's thin shoulders.

"In recent years, the savings for starting a business have run out. I mortgaged my real estate and sold a car, almost being'back to its original shape'." Liu Xian said.

　　Fortunately, Liu Xian's online appeal coupled with high-quality medical masks helped the masks produced by the "Chuan-E Friendship Factory" to quickly open up a market. Now this factory is self-sufficient and operates in a healthy manner.

　　In the factory, Liu Xian gets along with the workers very well. There is no "boss" here. Everyone kindly calls Liu Xian "sister".

After the start of construction in May last year, there were more than 40 Hubei employees working here. As the epidemic eased, most of them returned to Hubei, and there are currently 8 Hubei people left in the factory.

　　54-year-old Xia Xiaomao and his wife Chu Qianhong are from Xiaogan, Hubei. They have been working since they came to Chengdu in May last year.

After the outbreak, Xia Xiaomao couldn't do a small business in Wuhan and couldn't find a job.

Inadvertently, Xia Xiaomao saw the recruitment information released by "Sister Raincoat" on Douyin. After a simple phone call, he and his wife bought train tickets to Chengdu. "In my impression, Sichuan is a very far place. I haven't been here. Seeing that my'sister' has done a lot for Wuhan, I feel that she is very responsible and responsible. Out of this trust, we came."

　　After coming to Chengdu, Xia Xiaomao’s dormitory was about a 10-minute walk from the factory. According to his memory, as soon as he entered the dormitory, he saw slippers, drying racks and other daily necessities prepared in the factory. He is very heartwarming.

Xia Xiaomao also took out his mobile phone and showed the SMS reminder that his salary was received, “There is more than five thousand yuan after deducting five insurances and one fund every month.” Xia Xiaomao smiled and said that he and his wife plan to work in the factory for a long time. I won’t go anywhere during the Spring Festival this year. I look forward to starting work after the new year.” (End)