The unique climate of the northeast is vast and the high latitude has shaped the northeast style and heroic northeast character of the Linhai SnowField. In addition, the northeast has a long border line, the northern gate of China, with many port cities.
But at the beginning of this year, the epidemic swept through the northeast, which also made these commercial and trade cities face a huge crisis: the sparsely populated small cities not only faced the pressure of winter snowstorms, but also shouldered the heavy responsibility of epidemic prevention.
Up to now, with the efforts of government at all levels, enterprises, social volunteers and other parties, the epidemic situation in the three northeastern provinces has gradually shown a downward trend. The number of new infections in Jilin Province has declined for three consecutive days, and the daily new cases in Liaoning Province and Heilongjiang Province are in single digits.
A return to normal social order is just around the corner. But all this is inseparable from the group of volunteers who rushed to various streets in the three northeastern provinces during the epidemic, and this issue of micro-stories tells a group of "ordinary heroes" who are fighting the epidemic in the northeast, among them:
Some people are the staff of the epidemic prevention station, and on February 8, the first day of the resumption of work on the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, they received a notice to support the border city;
Someone was a taxi driver, the most ordinary resident of a small town, and stepped forward when he saw that his hometown needed help;
Someone is a 47-year-old northeastern man who is fierce on a blizzard day, just to get vegetables into the hands of residents;
There is also a female rider who volunteers while delivering food and wants to set an example for her daughter through her own actions.
They are the most common ordinary people in our lives, they will be worried about living expenses, but they will also complain about the hard work, but when the epidemic comes, they choose to stick to their posts - this may be the heroism of ordinary people.
Here are the true stories about them:
Text | Guo Zirui
Edit | Shi Ningyu
On March 13, a rare blizzard was raging in Itong County.
The whole county of Yitong was shrouded in fog and snow, and the streets were empty of pedestrians, only the occasional lamppost would pierce the white fog, then disappear into the vastness, and then the streets fell silent again.
This is the first day of static management notice in Yitong County, Siping City, Jilin Province, except for epidemic prevention and takeaway personnel, others are not allowed to go out; residents who have not hoarded materials have begun to hoard food online.
Shi Lei is the owner of this lamppost, and he is also one of the few riders in Yitong who has a pass and is allowed to go out to transport civilian biological resources.
On this day, Shi Lei needs to distribute supplies to more than 30 households, with an average of 2-3 large bags per order. He rode his battery car, his legs pedaling carefully on either side of the body carefully gliding on the frozen road, and the phone kept ringing with a tone of alarm — a new order was coming.
The blizzard weather and closed community led to insufficient transportation capacity, making delivery more difficult, until 10 p.m., Shi Lei, who was supposed to leave work at 8 o'clock, delivered the last order. When he returned home, Shi Lei's close-fitting clothes were repeatedly drenched and dried with sweat, and a layer of white salt was formed on them.
On March 27, the Yitong Manchu Autonomous County epidemic prevention and control work report meeting was held, and Zhao Xiaojun, vice chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, pointed out that at present, Yitong is in a critical period of anti-epidemic, a period of development and transformation, a period of personnel fatigue, a period of psychological complexity, and a period of testing supply, and it is necessary to seriously solve difficulties, smooth the work system, and operate channels, achieve comprehensive and complete clearance as soon as possible, and resolutely fight and win this big battle.
Around the Spring Festival this year, the epidemic broke out in many provinces and cities in the northeast, and in addition to changchun, Shenyang and other major cities, scattered epidemics were also found in various county-level cities in northeast China.
Compared with first-tier cities, small counties have very limited prevention and control resources, logistics and manpower, and also pose higher challenges to people's normal lives during the anti-epidemic period.
From 0:00 on February 8 to 24:00 on February 10, Huludao City, Liaoning Province, has confirmed a total of 22 cases of new crown. In order to alleviate the pressure of frontline epidemic prevention, Tian Lu volunteered to sign up to become a "big white".
Tian Lu's job is a Meituan takeaway rider, and during his volunteer work, he still ensures that food delivery, food delivery and epidemic prevention volunteer work are "three mistakes".
Figure | Tianlu is in delivery
After volunteering, Tian Lu's time was divided into three, switching back and forth at home, sites and service card points every day, and his family knew his attitude and did not dissuade him, but when cooking rice, he would put half a cup of rice, "volunteering hard, eat more."
Heihe City, In Heilongjiang Province, China's northernmost province, also suffered a complex epidemic around the Spring Festival , because Heihe and Russia are only separated by a river, and have been under pressure to import the epidemic from abroad in recent years.
Compared with other provinces in the northeast, heihe city's anti-epidemic conditions are even worse. Because of the high latitude, ice and snow account for half of the year in Heihe, and most of the time the climate of Heihe is extremely cold, and the temperature hovers between minus 10 degrees and 30 degrees.
Figure | The state of food delivery in the extremely cold climate of the Northeast
But Ma Chunxiang, a 40-year-old female rider, still decided to get up at 5:30 a.m. every day to boil water, wash up, and gather at the card point at 6:30 a.m.
Like Tian Lu, Ma Chunxiang signed up as a volunteer during the most severe period of the Heihe epidemic, working while ensuring the normal supply of daily necessities for the people of the city.
Ma Chunxiang remembers that when he went out during that time, it was dark and lonely outside, and he couldn't hear anything other than the north wind whistling. She always had to wrap three layers of cold gear inside and three outer layers, and then put a scarf around her neck, and carefully ride an electric car through the dark.
Figure | Ma Chunxiang took a selfie while volunteering
"No way, we don't do it, what do you do?" Ma Chunxiang said that this is also the voice of Shi Lei, Tian Lu and others, retrograde, has become the group of northeastern people in the early spring of this year the most insistent thing.
In a poster circulating online, police, medical staff, firefighters, and takeaway riders were described as "the most beautiful retrogrades", but Tian Lu did not agree with this title.
Tian Lu, now 33, is a native of The Northeast. In addition to studying in other places for 3 years of junior college, the rest of the time, Tian Lu stayed in Suizhong County, Huludao, growing up, working, marrying wives, having children... Inheriting the ordinary days passed down from his fathers.
His last job was as a taxi driver in Huludao, and the epidemic caused a sharp decline in pedestrians on the road, and Tian Lu had to find some other livelihood and become a rider.
"It's too cold in the northeast in winter, sometimes I don't want to go out to run, so I do part-time, and in the summer, I do full-time", in the days of being a rider, Tian Lu has seen every snow in Jianchang County. This time, Tian Lu chose to invest in the front line in bad weather, for the simple reason that "Jianchang is my home and needs me."
"I have also worked as a driver, and I am familiar with every community here," Tian Lu asked rhetorically, "then shouldn't I stand up?" ”
Zhao Wei, a rider who is also in Suizhong County, Huludao, also thinks so.
Zhao Wei's job is a laboratory inspector at the county epidemic prevention station, and on the first day of returning to work in the new year, the epidemic situation in some cities in the three northeastern provinces is serious, and the screening workload is huge, and Zhao Wei is required to "immediately support the next city to do nucleic acid testing."
When Zhao Wei packed his bags, he did not forget to take time to make a phone call to the station manager of the Meituan takeaway station, asking the other party to arrange someone to take over his part-time job, and instructed on the phone, "When everyone delivers takeaway, pay attention to safety."
Prior to this, Zhao Wei always took orders on holidays and was responsible for the delivery business of Suizhong County, Huludao City. Today, his identity has changed from a rider to a "big white", checking the physical condition of residents in the biological laboratory, and since February 8, Zhao Wei has handled about 30,000 sample test tubes.
The platform applied for him the honorary title of "Pioneer Rider".
Figure | Selfie of Zhao Wei at work
Since the day he was transferred, Zhao Wei has never left his job, and he can only take time to meet his children through videos every night. Zhao Wei's son has just entered elementary school, and because of his work, Zhao Wei has not seen his child for nearly three months.
"Hard work must also be persevered, the epidemic will always pass, but now the citizens of Huludao need me."
The sense of mission is also the reason why 47-year-old "old Yitong" Shi Lei and his colleagues insist on delivering takeaways 11 days a day.
After Yitong implemented static management on March 13, Shi Lei's site had only 20 passes — only one-fifth of the city's takeaway riders could deploy. In addition, with the emergence of new epidemics, there are not enough people, and more volunteers and resources are urgently needed.
Sun Dajian, the station of meituan takeaway Yitong partner, organized an emergency meeting of the site owners at the first time, set up a meituan takeaway volunteer team, followed the principle of voluntariness, let the first batch of volunteer riders take up their posts, and contacted merchants to prepare goods and ensure that materials can be smoothly delivered to residents.
On March 12, after the implementation of static management in the whole area of Yitong due to the impact of the epidemic, the Yitong County Party Committee and the county government quickly launched the "Emergency Plan for The Guarantee of Living Materials", coordinated with supplier enterprises, opened up transportation links, signed packaging agreements, preferred business operators, smoothed purchase channels, and ensured that the county's living materials were rich in variety, sufficient supply and stable prices.
"Everyone is trying their best to defend Yitong," said Shi Lei, whose neighborhood is not closed and who is familiar with the Yitong route, so he has been delivering on the front line, delivering an average of more than 14 hours a day.
It was not until the 24th that the county strictly controlled and the riders were not allowed to travel, That Shi Lei ended the 11-day assault battle, and the day he returned home, he found that he had delivered 11 days of dishes and had not left a single order, but forgot to buy something for himself.
Ma Chunxiang of Heihe City is also insisting on distribution. In February this year, the number of new cases in Heihe City increased, more and more local riders were required to stay at home, and seeing that the city's transportation capacity was tight, Ma Chunxiang first turned part-time rider work to full-time.
The Heihe Municipal Bureau of Commerce also launched the daily monitoring and daily reporting system for daily necessities and the zero reporting system for market abnormalities for the first time, ensuring that the city's rice, noodles and edible oil stocks can meet the needs of the public in the month, and the supply of pork reserves, vegetables, eggs and milk can meet the daily normal needs of the citizens.
Ma Chunxiang, a 40-year-old mother who dropped out of school at the age of 14, has done a lot of hard work before, she sold Spring League in cold weather, and then fell into arthropathy, and also sat in the back kitchen in the bitter late night through the grill, often pierced by slender pointed stickers, but she is always optimistic, "There is always hope for the days to go by." ”
Her hopes are this job and her daughter. The rider is the most satisfying job she has ever encountered, not only free of time, transparent income, no sexism, age restrictions, "as long as you can bear hardships can do", and a stable single amount, there is a reliable source of income.
As for her daughter, Ma Chunxiang hopes that after she sees herself working hard, she can work hard and change her mind. In addition, the incentive policy introduced by Meituan to ensure transportation capacity during the epidemic is also the reason why many riders insist on running around the city.
Perhaps every ordinary person has different intentions to stick to their posts, but it is undeniable that everyone is protecting the city with actions.
This is the heroism that belongs to ordinary people.
In this battle to defend the city, everyone is guarding their hometown in their own way.
As of 2021, There are 2,844 county-level cities in China distributed over the fields, and these areas, known as "small cities", constitute the background of China.
Different from the concentration of resources, capabilities and economic advantages in large cities, small cities are at a disadvantage in transportation, location and economy, and when encountering difficulties, they need the help of social forces and the participation of forces from all sides within the city.
In this case, meituan's partners began to use their advantages to join the fight against the epidemic.
Considering that the epidemic prevention workers need the support of daily necessities, the Meituan takeaway partner in Jilin Panshi organized relevant supplies for the first time and donated ready-to-eat food and emergency supplies such as eight treasure porridge, milk and mineral water to fight the epidemic.
Figure | Jilin Panshi's Meituan takeaway partner is delivering supplies
Not only that, many riders of The Rock also actively participated in the anti-epidemic volunteer service team, responsible for the maintenance of nucleic acid testing order and the transportation of nucleic acid samples, "Epidemic prevention and control is related to everyone, everyone must jointly guard the beautiful homeland and contribute to winning the epidemic prevention and control war." ”
The site also continues to deliver a wealth of meals to the "Great White" riders, so that they can maintain a healthy physical state during the frontline fight against the epidemic.
Figure | Rock riders are also actively involved in the anti-epidemic volunteer service team
Hunchun partners in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture also rushed to the front line. Hunchun City is located in the easternmost part of Jilin Province, the lower reaches of the Tumen River, connected to the mountains and rivers of Russia and Korea, across the sea from South Korea and Japan, with a permanent population of 239359 people, belonging to a strategically important border city, and has a heavy responsibility for epidemic prevention.
On February 28, after Hunchun discovered a confirmed case, an emergency plan was launched immediately, and a total of 30 sealing and control areas and 26 control areas were demarcated during the epidemic prevention period.
Meituan takeaway Hunchun partners organized relevant supplies at the first time, donated instant noodles, functional drinks and other ready-to-eat foods and emergency supplies, and delivered more than 200 pieces of emergency food to more than 100 volunteers for the first time.
Figure | Meituan takeaway Hunchun partners are raising supplies
Meituan takeaway Debao partners learned that the local urgent need for N95 masks, so they actively purchased 500 N95 masks and 200 boxes of high-calcium milk through multiple pharmacies to donate to the Debao County Red Cross Society to send warmth and care to the frontline anti-epidemic personnel.
Figure | Meituan takeaway Debao partners purchase masks
In Baishan City, Jilin Province, partners set up a "Party Member Supply Commando Team" at the first time of the outbreak of the epidemic, organized a "Pioneer Rider Gang Group", and practiced the dedication spirit of "danger has me, retrograde has me" with practical actions, and effectively fulfilled its social responsibilities.
"The epidemic is ruthless and compassionate" is the truest portrayal of this group of ordinary people huddled together to warm up and fight against the epidemic.
Shi Lei in Yitong delivery is the busiest time, 1 day working time of more than 16 hours, that is the time of Yitong snow melting, but also the most difficult delivery season of the year - the bone-chilling low temperature and wind brought by snowmelt not only blow everyone's hands and faces, but also make the road slippery and difficult to move forward, and the daily 30-minute journey often takes 1 hour to deliver.
In addition, there are no small shops open, steamed buns are frozen into ice bumps, and riders have to take time to go home and drink a sip of hot water, or simply eat noodles to fill their hunger. "But when you deliver food, you feel like everyone is burning themselves and helping the city recover," Mr. Tian said.
When Tian Lu volunteers, he often receives "special" orders, which come from small shops, and they will make hot meals, and then put them in incubators and provide them to front-line personnel for free. Even if the business has plummeted, these small shops are still moving forward and backward with the city, until the static management of the city must be closed.
And Ma Chunxiang's Heihe City, there are many old communities and many elderly people, volunteers to send supplies, lead the way to doctors, enter households to collect nucleic acids, assist in entering and collecting, and centralized killing all need to climb upstairs to serve, and she has seen many volunteers carrying weights forward.
At a time of door-to-door collection, she found that the captain in his 50s, who had been rushing to the front line, had to support the stairs to go upstairs, and asked carefully to know that the other party had knee joint problems, and relied on taking medicine to alleviate it every day, but at that time it was too busy, and the captain forgot to take medicine.
These ordinary people, ordinary as you and me, have come to the front line because of fate, perhaps they have not been vigorous, or they may not have changed the fate of the city by their own strength, but the power of the convergence of the crowd has robbed the city from the epidemic.
While some cities are still under control and many riders are sealed, riders who are still running are relaying.
Ma Chunxiang was still running, and her girlfriend told her that the ice floes on the Black River had melted. She believed that spring had come.