[Chinese New Year Chronicle] I am in Laos for the New Year
[Explanation] The Lunar New Year in 2022 is very different for the employees of the China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Company who are in Laos and are responsible for the maintenance of the foreign section of the China-Laos Railway. Due to work needs and the impact of the epidemic, they spent the first time in a foreign country in Laos. During the Spring Festival, in order to continue to maintain the equipment along the China-Laos Railway, we will stick to it silently, and bring safety guarantees to passengers and trains.
[Explanation] This Spring Festival, the resident Kunming Bureau Group went to Laos for maintenance workers, and invited local employees who could not go home to experience Chinese New Year customs and taste Chinese New Year together.
Liu Zizhou and Song Mai are a pair of foreign teachers and apprentices. At work, Liu Zizhou taught Song Mai to read the ruler, measure the line, and in life, Song Mai taught Liu Zizhou to speak Lao, and the two established a deep friendship.
[Same period] Liu Zizhou, a maintenance worker from Kunming Bureau Group to Laos
The new colleagues in Laos are very nice and sincere. I am very happy to work with them. When the Chinese New Year is coming, I want to celebrate the New Year with them and bring them the traditional Chinese New Year flavor.
[Explanation] Posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging lanterns, setting off firecrackers, Chinese workers and old workers decorate the courtyard with a New Year's flavor, and in the courtyard next to the China-Laos railway, they found the feeling of home and their relatives a feeling of.
[Concurrent period] Song Mai, a Lao employee
Today, I will cut window decorations and paste Spring Festival couplets with everyone. It is very interesting and I am very happy.
[Explanation] In the afternoon, in the staff restaurant, everyone helped to choose and wash vegetables, and were busy preparing for dinner.
On the other side, several Lao employees and Chinese employees in the restaurant were surrounded, and the Chinese employees were teaching their Lao colleagues how to make dumplings.
[Concurrent] Guo Lei, a maintenance worker from Kunming Bureau Group to Laos
Today, I will cook a few good dishes for you, and give Lao colleagues a taste of the taste of our hometown.
[Concurrent] Laos employee Lu Hailin
We are going to make them a Lao dish, we call this dish called pounded papaya, and in Laos, when entertaining friends, colleagues, and guests, we will prepare this dish.
[Explanation] Although it is the Chinese New Year, not everyone can relax. They still need to set off according to the plan and continue their equipment maintenance work.
[Explanation] With the opening of the China-Laos Railway, this railway has become an important bridge to enhance the communication between the two peoples.
The operation and maintenance has just begun, and there will be many more such Spring Festivals in the future. With every round of the alternation of the four seasons in foreign countries, it is closely intertwined with the maintenance and operation of the China-Laos railway.
Reporter Du Xiaoxiao comprehensive report
Responsible editor: [Wang Kai]