Source: China Youth Daily client
China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Zhang Qian
He Baiyan (left) and his colleagues eat a box lunch. Courtesy of respondents
"The barren beach of Jianyang burns the mountains, and the spring wind is difficult and the grass does not occur."
Drive across the heavenly mountains, towards the stars in the evening.
The thunder of the four fields is fast, and the electricity is like a long dragon rain.
Years of youth should be priceless, a red outfit for the country. ”
When He Boyan, a 2020 graduate of the Karamay Campus of China University of Petroleum (Beijing), wrote this poem, he decided to stay in Karamay, Xinjiang, and become an oil man. Near graduation last year, he and 117 other alumni who chose to stay in Xinjiang wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping, "expressing why we want to stay and build Xinjiang well." General Secretary Xi Jinping said in his reply: "I support this life choice you have made. ”
In the eyes of many, it is not easy for young people to choose tough industries and remote areas for employment. Huang Lei, director of the Employment Center of China University of Petroleum (Beijing), told reporters that more than a quarter of the young people who can be assigned graduates of the school every year will choose to work in grass-roots units in the western region, and most of them will go to the production line of petroleum and petrochemical enterprises to work. This year, 725 graduates made such a choice, an increase of 16.58% over the previous year.
What kind of attraction makes these young people choose to go to the "front line" to contribute oil to the motherland?
Go to the vast world to make a contribution
"In order to be able to make a difference." Six years ago, Cao Lihu, who had just graduated from China University of Petroleum, made a similar decision to He Baiyan: to go to the Tarim oil field in Xinjiang. When it comes to life choices, he gave this answer that has stood the test of time.
At that time, Cao Lihu hoped to stay in school and also enter the research unit in Beijing. But he resolutely chose the oil industry that was "not very prosperous" at that time, and he was bent on going to the "front line". He identified the Tarim oil field in the Gobi Desert as "because the Tarim oil field is a young oil field that can make a difference."
"Those who are engaged in oil will have to go to the oil field and go to the scene!" Cao Lihu said in an interview: "Now prove that my choice is correct. At present, he is the director of the Oilfield Chemistry Department of the Oil and Gas Production Institute of the Oil and Gas Engineering Research Institute of PetroChina Tarim Oilfield Company.
Tarim Oilfield is located in the Taklamakan Desert, and the extraction of oil and natural gas faces the problems of high temperature and high pressure. In order to ensure the safety of mining, in recent years, Cao Lihu has taken the lead in developing a management system for the integrity of high-temperature and high-pressure wells, using information means to monitor the mining process, hierarchical management of the safety status of diagnostic wells, without having to shut down like a small problem, and improving the efficiency of mining while ensuring safety. "This system has obtained 14 software copyrights, which can be said to be comparable in performance to similar foreign systems."
At the end of 2020, the oil and gas production equivalent of Tarim Oilfield exceeded 30 million tons, becoming the third largest oil and gas field in China. Among them, there is Cao Lihu's contribution. He said proudly: "We supply natural gas to the 'West-to-East Gas Transmission', and Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong all use our gas." ”
But Cao Lihu was not satisfied with the existing contributions, he conducted rational analysis and thinking from international relations to energy status to national planning, and then strengthened the idea of "being able to make a difference". He believes that there will be a bigger breakthrough in the future.
Cao Lihu inspects the equipment. Courtesy of respondents
Only by shouldering responsibility can we create value
Compared with Cao Lihu's mood of looking forward to showing his skills, He Boyan, who has just entered the workplace, has a very simple wish, he said humorously: "I want to find a pit now and bury my turnip well." ”
He is willing to stay in Karamay because he believes he can "create more value" here than elsewhere.
As a representative of outstanding graduates who served the national energy strategy and took root in the western region, he expressed the motivation to inspire himself to "create value" at the national symposium on grassroots employment of college graduates held in May this year:
"In the 2019 internship, I followed the teacher to the Fire Burning Mountain Operation Area of the Zhuandong Oil Production Plant in Xinjiang Oilfield, 250 kilometers away from Urumqi. Once, Master Zheng and I were patrolling the wells between the oil wells in the rainstorm, as if the rain didn't exist. It wasn't until it was getting heavier and heavier that we couldn't see the road at all, that we went back to the meeting point to shelter from the rain. Master Zheng told me that for 20 years, even if it rained, as long as they could see the road, they would continue to patrol the well; they really couldn't see the road, so they stopped at the assembly station for a while and then continued to patrol the well. In winter, they patrol the wells with snow chains on wheel bundles, and walk to the wells where the car can't reach them, 'as long as this well needs to be inspected today, they will try to check it out.'" ”
He Baiyan said: "This internship made me understand the responsibility and mission of oil people. He told reporters: "It's hard to imagine what kind of difficulties Master Zheng faced when he was as young as me. They can, why can't I? I feel like I have a responsibility on my part. ”
"Where it's Needed Most" is rich in a sense of purpose and glory
"There is only a desolate desert, no desolate life." Cao Lihu said that this is a sentence that the oil people in the far frontier understand, they choose the desolate desert in order to create a more wonderful life, and the fate of the individual is often the most wonderful when it is closely integrated with the fate of the country and the nation.
Cao Lihu still retains the message given to him by Wang Tao, the former minister of petroleum industry, who told reporters: "I won the Wang Tao Talent Scholarship in 2015, the old minister encouraged me to go to Tarim in Xinjiang, after working for two years, I wrote a letter to the old minister to report on the work, and the old minister wrote me a message 'go to the grassroots, go to the hard places, go to the places where the development of the motherland's petroleum industry is most needed'! ”
Cao Lihu frankly said that in the face of the desert, he occasionally feels lonely, and sometimes feels regret when he can't see the bustling streets, but when he thinks about it, he is for "the major needs of the country's energy", in the "place where it is most needed", doing important work related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and the sense of mission and glory will overwhelm loneliness and regret.
In the view of Cao Lihu and He Boyan, although the desert is desolate, it is full of "sense of mission and glory", they seem to emit light and heat, just like the sunshine that shines into people's hearts, which can make the occasional condensation of Xiaoice knots melt.
Cao Lihu joked: "You don't have to say how hard we are as soon as you publicize it, then no one will want to come." He said: "We are not as hard as we think, but it is actually quite good." We belong to the high-tech industry, the content of the work is very challenging, and the industry is also very developed. ”
The reporter asked them, if they choose again, will they leave?
Cao Lihu said firmly, "I won't leave, otherwise there would have been no need to come in the first place." He Baiyan said: "Karamay is a very beautiful city, I must leave something here." ”