Source: China Youth Daily
Left: Xiao Shuai, a young builder of China Construction Group. Right: The Grand Mosque of Algeria, built by Chinese architecture, is printed on a new 1,000 dinar. Images in this edition were provided by interviewees
Wei Cong, a young builder of roads and bridges in China, and his wife.
With the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup in full swing, its final venue, Lusail Stadium, is in the spotlight. The "Chinese-built" World Cup main venue was also printed on Qatari currency. The name of "infrastructure madness" has once again gone abroad and become famous all over the world.
From the Qatari World Cup commemorative banknote to the Gwadar port with Pakistan's 5 rupee banknote, to the Great Mosque of Algiers on Algeria's 1000 dinar banknote... In recent years, along the footprint of the "Belt and Road" construction, more and more "built in China" have been printed on the banknotes of the countries where the project is located.
Behind these super projects that make the Chinese people proud, there is such a group of young people: they firmly believe in working hard to prosper the country, build a world miracle in a barren land, and reshape mountains and rivers day and night; They also have the same heart for the world and are rooted overseas, often have adventures, fight wits and courage with wild elephants, or meet love...
The "Youth Teahouse" series of interview programs that China Youth Daily has just launched invited a group of young builders at home and abroad to connect to deeply study and understand the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and decode the moving core behind the name of "infrastructure madness" from multiple angles.
The name is beginning to reshape mountains and rivers in seconds
Two and a half hours to tear down the bridge, nine hours to transform a station... Chen Yuqi, a doctoral student in materials science at Tsinghua University, has the impression that videos about China's infrastructure often amaze netizens at home and abroad, "Every time you fast-forward a Chinese infrastructure project, it is like watching a science fiction blockbuster, which is amazing."
She feels that the biggest moment of the "infrastructure madness" is in 2020. Together with tens of millions of netizens at home and abroad, she turned into a "cloud supervisor" to watch the "ten-day miracle" of the construction of Vulcan Mountain Hospital. They saw a high-standard infectious disease hospital with a construction area of more than 30,000 square meters rise in Wuhan, and the unknown swamp on the shores of Zhiyin Lake has since become an ark of life.
Xiao Shuai, a deputy to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a post-90s engineer of the Third Bureau of Construction of China, was one of the builders who fought on the front line at that time. Xiao Shuai, who was in Guangzhou at that time, went retrograde and was ordered in danger. At that time, the muddy mudflats, densely packed with excavators rushed to work day and night, which he will never forget. With only 3 days left before delivery to the hospital, "do the hardest thing" to rush work. Xiao Shuai served as the commando team leader and was specifically responsible for the installation of outdoor fans and water and electricity, and formulated the "hourly system" combat map, "At that time, everyone was thinking about whatever it takes, faster, faster!" China's speed is our mission! ”
Similar to Xiao Shuai, there is also Zhang Xin, a product designer from China Tower, as a young builder of "new infrastructure", at the show site, she was pleasantly surprised to find that her work and Xiao Shuai had many intersections, such as the construction of "Vulcan Mountain" They also carried out emergency communication support on the site, "compressing" the project that originally took a month to complete to 3 days.
"These achievements are supported by the country's strong real economy." Shi Zhiqin, executive director of the Belt and Road Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University, said: "Why is China's infrastructure getting stronger? The name of the infrastructure madness is getting louder? In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the four words of 'practical work and prosperous state' gave all the answers. ”
While feeling the shock, young student Chen Yuqi felt that the future was promising, "At the threshold of graduation, after listening to the construction stories of the predecessors, combined with the importance attached to the real economy in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, I feel that the employment prospects are becoming broader and brighter." “
Show off your skills and reach the peak when you debut
"Build a modern industrial system. Adhere to the focus of economic development on the real economy, promote new industrialization, and accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power, a quality power, a space power, a transportation power, a network power, and a digital China. In the past few days, Jian Cong's founder Junpeng has been repeatedly reading this paragraph in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
For this post-95 entrepreneur, devoting himself to the "intelligent upgrading of the construction industry" is a determination made up in high school. Before filling in the university major, he aimed at the technical research of the core components of industrial robots and chose the related mechanical engineering major. Today, the waterproof adhesive mortar laying robot they have developed has been praised for its high precision, beauty and efficiency in the roof construction process. ”
What he didn't expect was that within a year, Xiao Shuai's China Construction Group independently developed his idea.
"After the advent of the aerial building machine, it became common to build a floor in three days. In fact, construction sites are no longer crowded and dusty as everyone imagined, and they are becoming more and more intelligent, digital, and low-carbon. Xiao Shuai revealed that now Chinese infrastructure companies have won 70% of the world's orders for ultra-tall buildings above 300 meters, and in recent years, the annual growth rate of China's construction R&D and innovation has remained at about 30%, and a series of neck technologies have been conquered. For example, he said, he solved the problem of water ice conversion, so that the National Aquatics Center changed from a water cube to an ice cube; China Construction Low-carbon Smart Demonstration Office Building has adopted more than 30 low-carbon construction technologies.
Zhang Xin also has a deep understanding of this, as a product designer of new infrastructure, her work goal is to combine "5G + AI + tower" to make the tower more "intelligent and smart", equip the tower with "clairvoyance", "tailwind ear" and "smart brain", so that the "communication tower" can become a "digital tower", which can help forest fire monitoring and early warning work, "It has two eyes, one detects temperature through the binocular thermal imaging channel, and the other is used to do AI analysis and install pyrotechnic detection algorithms." ”
Fame continues to amaze the world
How to make the "infrastructure maniac" widely recognized and famous? This is a question that young people who have been stationed overseas for many years to build the "Belt and Road" often ponder.
Wei Cong, deputy chief engineer of China Road and Bridge Cambodia Office, said, "Our Chinese enterprises go out, in fact, it represents Chinese technology and Chinese standards going out, and we also need to consider being able to stay, so we must not only teach people to fish, but also teach people to fish." ”
To this end, while helping Cambodia build the first highway, they also took talent training as the focus of the project, and built an advanced central laboratory in addition to road construction. There is a well-known proverb in Cambodia: "Where there is a road, there is hope." The construction of the "Belt and Road" project not only connects five densely populated provinces and cities along Cambodia's route from the capital Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, but also injects vitality into the local economic and social development, shortening the original five-hour drive to two hours, and leaving seeds of hope.
At the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when Xiao Shuai heard the four words "popular" in the report, he remembered the scene when colleagues built the super projects printed on banknotes, and also remembered many foreign friends who walked side by side: "For example, at the China Construction Egypt branch, we have an employee named Lanim Meier, who is involved in the project of the tallest building in Africa, and she said that China is helping them build landmarks and helping them achieve 'modernization'. ”
"In fact, the principle of building the 'Belt and Road' is consultation, joint construction and sharing. Bringing tangible benefits with our engineering construction. For example, Chinese workers risked their lives to help Uzbekistan open the first and so far longest railway tunnel in Central Asia in 900 days, shortening the journey that originally required to cross the mountains for four or five days and even need to detour to a third country to 900 seconds by train. Shi Zhiqin, executive director of the "Belt and Road" Strategy Research Institute of Tsinghua University, found that since the "Belt and Road" initiative was proposed in 2013, more and more young people have a global mind and devote themselves to it, some young people compete to become volunteers of the forum to increase their international vision, and some young people have founded the "Belt and Road" association in universities, and their members have covered dozens of countries in the past 9 years... Continuously enhance the vitality of the "Belt and Road".
"Although I am stationed all year round to call home, I am not alone, and there are many companions on this road." On the eve of the opening of Cambodia's first expressway, Wei Cong also married his wife who knew and fell in love with this "road of hope" in Cambodia, and the couple built their dreams together on the "Belt and Road".
Of course, in addition to romantic love stories, young people who are rooted in overseas road construction and bridge construction will also encounter some interesting experiences that cannot be laughed at. In order to allow the China-Laos Railway to also take the "high-speed road of the network", when establishing information base stations along the line, Peng Cheng, a project manager of the Xishuangbanna branch of China Tower, often walks through the rainforest and fights with wild elephants. For this reason, his WeChat steps often exceed 10 kilometers, but "the thought of people along the railway being able to make calls online is worth it."
This group of young "infrastructure maniacs" believe that with the spread of the "Belt and Road" construction, "in the future, more young people will continue to make the name of 'built in China', continue to stand up the coordinates of the era that amazes the world, and continue to build the future." (Zhongqing Daily · Zhongqing Net reporter Dai Yueting)