On Chinese New Year's Eve 2024, a variety of activities, concerts with surprises, fashionable and brilliant light shows, and colorful fireworks make Hohhot a city that never sleeps. Behind the smooth progress of the New Year's Eve activities, is the insistence of urban management, traffic police, sanitation and other departments, they are either on duty, or walking the streets and alleys, maintaining the order of the city environment during the festival, and escorting the clean, harmonious and orderly festival atmosphere of Qingcheng.
The safety and order of Chinese New Year's Eve is their protection
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Dazhao Square not only has romantic lanterns, but also wonderful New Year's Eve performances, music, fireworks, balloons flying, and the atmosphere of the New Year is instantly full.
In order to bring a warmth to everyone in winter, a 3.6-meter giant milk tea pot was erected in the tourist and leisure block of Saishang Old Street, and the milk tea boiled and boiled on the spot wafted out a strong fragrance, so that every citizen and tourist who came to Dazhao wanted to taste it. Thousands of people lined up in a long line, surrounding the entire venue.
In the flow of people, a group of people in dark blue overalls were particularly conspicuous, some of them guided the citizens to receive milk tea, some maintained order on the spot, and some organized everyone to line up in an orderly manner. "Everyone goes to get the milk tea ticket first, and then comes to line up to get the milk tea. "The people who received the milk tea came here to line up. "Please don't crowd up, you can get milk tea." "Although the temperature was very low at night, they still stuck to their posts. With their help, the people queuing up at the scene received the milk tea in an orderly manner. They are the members of the Yuquan District Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, and they are the busiest service personnel at the New Year's Eve site.
Mr. Chen and his family, who came to our city from Guangdong for the New Year's Eve, couldn't wait to take pictures at the scene after receiving the fragrant and hot milk tea. "It was our first time to come to the North for New Year's Eve, and in Dazhao Square, we saw the lanterns, took photos, and tasted the special food, which felt really great. Although there is a large flow of people at the scene, the sanitation and security are very good, and sanitation workers and law enforcement officers can be seen everywhere. ”
Ms. Li, from Wuhan, Hubei Province, tasted milk tea in a rotating cup printed with the image of "Zhaojun", and she couldn't help but praise: "This is the first time I have drunk salted milk tea, and I still use such a large pot to boil it, this experience is so novel." Ms. Li said that she originally saw many people receiving milk tea at the same time, she felt that the order would be very chaotic, but she did not expect the scene to be orderly under the maintenance of the staff, she said that after returning home, she would share this experience with her friends, so that everyone can come to Hohhot for tourism.
"We arranged for law enforcement officers to intervene in the management in advance, and carried out a carpet inspection and cleaning of key activity areas to provide guarantee for the smooth progress of various activities. We have also divided the law enforcement team into several groups to continuously inspect the activity area, increase the persuasion and rectification of behaviors such as out-of-store stalls and mobile vendors occupying the road, focus on stopping the sale of fireworks and Kong Ming lanterns, and make every effort to ensure the smooth progress of various activities on Chinese New Year's Eve, and ensure the orderly environment of the activity venue and the personal safety of the masses. Wang Qiang, deputy director of the Yuquan District Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, said.
That night, Xinhua Square, located in the heart of the city, was one of the main venues for New Year's Eve events. The reporter learned from the Municipal Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau that on Chinese New Year's Eve, all members of the urban management law enforcement team arrived at their posts, and each squadron was on duty on the northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast side and inside the square. The Urban Management Bureau of the Huimin District also fully cooperated with the local office to maintain the order of the 26 stairs leading to Xinhua Plaza to avoid potential safety hazards.
According to the staff of the Municipal Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, the Urban Management Bureau has set up a number of special teams to conduct inspections on Chinese New Year's Eve, making every effort to ensure the smooth progress of the Chinese New Year's Eve activities.
Behind the strong sense of atmosphere is that they are protecting
During the Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day holidays, the Yuquan District Sanitation Service Center paid close attention to the environmental sanitation guarantee work around scenic spots, creating a clean, happy, peaceful, civilized and healthy festival atmosphere for the general public.
It is understood that in order to ensure the environmental sanitation around the scenic spot, the Yuquan District Environmental Sanitation Service Center has formulated a work emergency plan in advance to ensure that each link is in order; establish and improve the environmental sanitation emergency guarantee mechanism, form an emergency support team of 200 people, and establish a rapid response mechanism in an emergency or when necessary, in accordance with the principle of early detection, early reporting and early disposal, and strengthen the emergency guarantee work of environmental sanitation in scenic spots.
"During the festival, we set people and posts, and reasonably deploy operators to ensure that there are people on duty in all sections of the main urban area. In view of the roads around the Dazhao area, 39 main and secondary roads, 122 back streets and alleys in the jurisdiction, especially in hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions and other areas with large flow of people, strictly implement the refined operation standards and norms, reasonably increase the cleaning personnel, increase the cleaning frequency in a timely manner, appropriately extend the operation time, focus on maintaining the road environment, and continuously increase the mechanized patrol and operation frequency of key streets and alleys; Eight public toilets, including the North Public Toilet of Dazhao Square and the Saishang Old Street Station, are guaranteed to be open 24 hours a day, and the rest of the public toilets are open late to clean and sanitize in time to ensure that the toilet needs of tourists during the festival are met. Zhang Min, head of the business section of the Yuquan District Environmental Sanitation Service Center, introduced.
During the interview, the reporter also learned that during the Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day holidays, the Yuquan District Sanitation Service Center dispatched 100 people to strengthen cooperation and negotiation with the scenic spot service center, and do a good job in the investigation and cleaning of domestic garbage and sanitary dead ends in the old street area and the surrounding blocks of Dazhao. At the same time, scientifically dispatch cleaning personnel and garbage removal vehicles, reasonably arrange cleaning routes, increase the frequency of patrol cleaning and garbage collection and transportation in areas with large garbage generation, and do a good job in the connection and protection of personnel and equipment at night and during the next day, so as to ensure that garbage is "cleaned every day".
In response to the New Year's Eve carnival theme activity of Xinhua Plaza in Huimin District, the Environmental Sanitation Service Center of Huimin District organized sanitation workers to effectively increase garbage removal and transportation, and dispatched additional sanitation workers and garbage removal vehicles to do a good job in cleaning the venue, collecting and transporting garbage, and ensuring the environmental sanitation of surrounding roads during the event.
Due to the large flow of people on New Year's Eve, the task of road cleaning is more onerous, and sanitation workers focus on cleaning areas with dense crowds to reduce the retention time of garbage pavement and ensure that the block environment is clean and tidy during the New Year's Eve. At the same time, the frequency of cleaning of public toilets will be increased, and the walls, sinks and pools in the toilets, squatting and the ground will be wiped in a timely manner to ensure that the public can use the toilet with peace of mind.
(Text/Photo: Hohhot Evening News Reporter Li Juan, Jia Min, Zhang Qiuyan)