China News Service, Changsha, February 4th, title: Encourage the people to celebrate the Chinese New Year on the spot, "Eight Immortals Cross the Sea" and send welfare

  Reporter Tang Xiaoqing

  "Dad, mom, look! We are writing Spring Festival couplets, and the company has also sent out red envelopes, bacon, fruit and other new year goods. New Year's Eve will also arrange the delivery of semi-finished products for the New Year's Eve dinner. When the epidemic eases, we will take a vacation to see you." February On the 4th, in a Spring Festival couplet activity organized by the company for long-term employees, Zhao Yuan, who spoke with a Henan accent, and his parents far away in Xinxiang, Henan made a WeChat call.

Workers receive Spring Festival couplets.

Photo by Yang Huafeng

  Zhao Yuan, 34, works as a project manager for a construction company in Changsha. He and his wife decided to celebrate the New Year on the spot this Spring Festival.

"It's a shame not to be able to reunite with my parents, but the company has prepared various heart-warming benefits such as watching movies during the Spring Festival for everyone. It also arranged all board and lodging and anti-epidemic materials during the holidays to celebrate the new year on the spot, and the taste of the year will not diminish." Zhao Yuan's company this year Dozens of non-local employees stay in Changsha for the New Year.

  At the construction site of the Zhuzhou Sany Petroleum Equipment Joint Plant Project undertaken by the Second Bureau of China Construction, the machine roared and the workers were busy wearing masks.

“As a key project in Hunan Province, the construction period is very tight, and the workers are also very cooperative and actively proposed to celebrate the New Year on the construction site.” Project director Xiao Dengkui said that during the Spring Festival, the project will provide each worker with a 500 yuan "Spring Festival subsidy" per day. Provide a "reunion meal" so that every worker can experience the warmth of home.

  As the Spring Festival approaches, in order to effectively prevent and control the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China encourages the people to "Celebrate the New Year on the spot." Enterprises and governments all over the country have introduced incentives.

The workers are posting Spring Festival couplets.

Photo by Yang Huafeng

  The Changsha Economic Development Zone has more than 35,000 non-Hunanese industrial workers. The top 50 global construction machinery manufacturer Sunward has more than 6,500 employees in the park, and non-local employees account for one-sixth of the total.

During the Spring Festival holiday, Sunward Intelligent prepared a reunion dinner for the employees left at the factory, and the employee activity center KTV, e-sports room, chess and card room, etc. will be open.

Its overseas subsidiaries have also prepared new year welfare red packets, which will be distributed to the stationed personnel, and arranged to visit and condole the families of overseas employees to help solve practical difficulties.

  So far, the company has over 1,100 employees who have signed up to stay in the factory. Zhou Ni, whose hometown is Suide County, Shaanxi, is one of them.

"I will cook a few hometown dishes on New Year's Eve, and then I will video chat with my family on WeChat." Zhou Ni said that employees who celebrate the New Year on the spot and stay in the (factory) for the New Year have festive red envelopes and can enjoy Changsha County and Changsha Economic Development Zone at the same time. Relevant benefits include 100 yuan, phone bills or 50G traffic, union coupons, and some companies also provide "warm tips" such as rent-free, babysitting, free health check-ups, and free 24-hour health and epidemic prevention online consultation.

  The reporter's search found that while enterprises in Guangdong, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shaanxi and other places provided material subsidies, they also provided spiritual comfort.

For example, New Year's Eve talent show, marriage and dating, psychological consultation, distribution of travel cards and online fun sports competitions.

  The care of government departments includes both real money and genuine warmth.

Under the premise of ensuring the safety of prevention and control, Hubei arranges New Year’s Eve dinners for employees staying in Hubei from other places; Beijing issues consumer vouchers and 20G local Internet traffic packages, and public libraries, cultural centers, etc., take appointments, limit currents, and make mistakes under the premise of implementing epidemic prevention and control requirements. Feng and other methods are open in an orderly manner; some regions in Jiangsu and Henan have arranged for free vaccinations against the new crown; Zhuzhou, Hunan provides more than 200,000 kinds of digital resources such as e-books, periodicals, audiobooks, videos, and 15 hours of online art training...

  Zhou Lingyu, a native of Yongzhou, Hunan who opened a leather goods factory in Fuzhou, Fujian, arranged various cultural and sports activities for local Chinese New Year employees, such as watching the Spring Festival Gala, lucky draw and making dumplings.

"We also sent New Year gifts to the employees' families, so that employees feel different but the same happy new year." Zhou Lingyu, who lives in Fuzhou, told reporters on WeChat that the Fuzhou government department also issued the "New Year's Stable Work Gift Package."

  In an interview with reporters, Mei Zhigang, director of the Social Welfare Research Center of Central China Normal University, said that in extraordinary times, companies have adopted effective means to expand employee welfare, which is worthy of recognition, and is also a manifestation of responding to the call of the state and fulfilling social responsibilities.

  Yang Chengsheng, a professor in the Department of Sociology of Central South University, said that distributing benefits to encourage people to celebrate the New Year on the spot can reduce the flow of people and prevent the spread of the epidemic. It also reflects the care of the government and enterprises, which is conducive to improving the enthusiasm of employees to work for enterprises, Society creates more value.

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