The hands of the tower clock of the Xi'an City Center Telegraph Building point steadily to zero point, not bad by second. 2022, as promised.
Under the tower bell, a truck full of anti-epidemic materials sped away in the direction of Chang'an Road. Across the road, a bus carrying a number of anti-epidemic personnel passed by and drove to a corner of the city.
Chang'an of ancient times, Xi'an of today. In the past, this thousand-year-old capital must have been crowded with people and bustling with joy. But this year is different, because of the "encounter" with the new crown pneumonia epidemic, not long ago, the megacity of 13 million people had to press the "pause button" and become a quiet city. Subsequently, people used the words "retrograde", "responsible", "calm", "sticky" and "relay" as annotations for the ancient city, waiting for the early departure of winter and the return of the warm sun in the joint fight against the epidemic.
Xi'an Bell Tower taken on December 23, 2021 (drone photo)
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao
Retrograde is the brightest background color of the city.
The "date" of night and light always brings hope. At night, a light yellow light strip outlines the 13.74-kilometer-long Xi'an City Wall into a peaceful picture. Under the gates of the city walls, the vehicles that shuttle from time to time are like mobile street lights, leading people to the battlefield of anti-epidemic.
The "pause button" of the city is the "fast forward button" of the anti-epidemic. Although the industry is different, everyone has become a torch, gathered into a strong force, and worked together for the "green code defense war". They are not only the battlefield "retrogrades", but also the urban "night watchmen".
On December 31, 2021, the tower clock of the Xi'an Newspaper Building at night.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Yibo
Responsibility is the most beautiful rhythm in this city.
On the evening of December 24, 2021, the eve of the national master's degree examination, it was freezing cold. In a teaching building of Xi'an Wai Chinese University, 8 teachers and students who took the initiative to ask for the battle were conducting the final drill. Although the ages are different, everyone's eyes are determined. The next day, they will undertake a special mission - to "send the test door" for 2 covid-19 close interview candidates.
The sudden outbreak of the epidemic completely disrupted the original examination and research plan. Shaanxi has changed with the times, and decided to ensure that more than 100,000 candidates in Xi'an "should take the exam" by adding new test centers, borrowing tests on the spot, and sending tests to the door.
As everyone knows, there is a bigger examination room outside the examination room: teachers, students, volunteers, community cadres, doctors, traffic police, journalists... People relay the test, escort the test, and in different ways of responsibility, together into a beautiful rhythm.
On December 24, 2021, at Xi'an International Chinese University, medical staff are about to go
Teachers and students who were sent to the door of the quarantine hotel explained the precautions for wearing and taking off protective clothing.
Calm, is the most beautiful picture of the city.
"Due to the increase in the number of confirmed cases of the epidemic in the city, the epidemic is in a stage of rapid development... Classes have been suspended since December 20, and students are learning online at home..." At 5:54 a.m. on December 20, 2021, a message interrupted the tranquility of the parent group of the first-grade firefly class of Houzaimen Primary School in the new urban area of Xi'an City.
7:39 a.m.: "Dear ones, this is our grade schedule today, reminding the children to watch the live broadcast at the class DingTalk group at 8:30 this morning." ”
18:25: "Dear, at 8:00 tonight class DingTalk group I opened a live broadcast and connected with the children." ”
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The arrangement of the school and teachers through time and space is orderly, and the parents and students respond in a timely and efficient manner. In the face of the big exam of "suspension of classes and non-stop learning", as far as the eye can see, calm and calm have become the mainstream.
On December 31, 2021, volunteers sorted free daily necessities in Qujiang Scenic Area, Xi'an.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Bowen
Perseverance is the warmest confession in this city.
"Rest assured, everything is fine", "I believe the situation will improve in two weeks", "I am fine, you can rest assured"... In the face of family concerns, many foreigners studying and developing in Xi'an have comforted them through videos. In addition to learning to cook and accompany their families, they, like many Chinese, choose to stay at home and wait for the spring to blossom.
But Puglia, from Iran, is idle. At present, he is applying to join the anti-epidemic volunteer team, "I know the language of many countries, I can serve foreign friends, I can drive, I can deliver supplies, and I can maintain the order of nucleic acid testing points..."
Xi'an City Wall Light Show taken on December 31, 2021 (drone photo).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tao Ming
Relay is the warmest transmission of the city.
Three days ago, the first batch of more than 4,900 cadres of Shaanxi provincial-level organs and enterprises and institutions sank into the community, and together with 33,000 early-stage sinking cadres in Xi'an and party members and cadres who were already working at the grass-roots level, they relayed to open up the "last hundred meters" of epidemic prevention and control and service guarantee.
"Fight against the epidemic, we please fight!" Many foreigners in Xi'an are also obligated to join the anti-epidemic army.
At 6:00 p.m. on December 24, 2021, at Xi'an Foreign Chinese University, 31 medical staff from the First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University School of Medicine and the General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University wrote a letter of request to join the epidemic prevention and control work. Early the next morning, the first team members were put into the frontline of the fight against the epidemic...
"When the winter leaves, the snow melts and the grass is green, I believe that there will be a new encounter that will continue the warmth..." On the night of the New Year's Eve, the light and shadow text on the southeast corner of the Xi'an city wall tells the most simple expectation of the city: Chang'an, Chang'an! (Reporter He Zhanjun)