Shen Yawei, a graduate of Fujian Institute of Technology, dredged in a narrow culvert. Fujian Daily reporter Wang Yi correspondent You Huiyi Lin Jinfeng photographed
Southeast Network, August 3 (Fujian Daily reporter Wang Yi, correspondent You Huiyi, Lin Jinfeng text/ photo) College student road maintenance workers have not only suffered "hardships" -- adapting to the working environment of exposure to the sun and wind and rain, but also doing "fine work" -- adapting to the development direction of mechanization and intelligence.
What do you want to do after college? What are the prospects for your career choice? These questions, for graduates who just walked out of college in July, may continue to churn in their minds for a few years.
By July this year, the first batch of 57 college student road maintenance workers recruited by the Quanzhou Municipal Highway Bureau at the end of 2016 had been wearing orange uniforms for a year and a half. Can they adapt to their jobs?
Recently, at the Anxi County Highway Branch, where the Quanzhou Municipal Highway Bureau maintains the longest section of road, the reporter interviewed several of these college student road maintenance workers.
Xie Wanlong, born in 1987, graduated from the Central University for Nationalities. From the newcomer who brushed the road tree with white gray hands on the first day, to the selection of the station manager of the Dage Highway Station, Xie Wanlong came to this day under the influence of his father-in-law, who is also a road maintenance worker.
"Managing a grassroots highway station is like maintaining a project, you have to be familiar with the work process, know how to communicate with older workers than you, and coordinate the relationship between the people in the villages around the road, so that they can participate in the maintenance of the road." Xie Wanlong said.
Xie Wanlong (left) and his co-workers start equipment to do maintenance caulking for the road. Fujian Daily reporter Wang Yi correspondent You Huiyi Lin Jinfeng photographed
Under the scorching sun, Xie Wanlong and his co-workers swung shovels to clean up the silted drainage ditches. In just one and a half years of road protection work, he encountered lime burns, mountain slips, and his toes were infected by work injuries, and he was lame for nearly a month... "Road maintenance is similar to doing farm work, and there are some small costs to pay in the familiar process." Different seasons have different things to do, high summer temperatures to prevent road cracking, heavy rain should pay more attention to the safety of the roadbed..." Xie Wanlong has already taken root on the winding road.
With the increase of highway mileage, mechanization and intelligence have also become the development direction that a new generation of road maintenance workers must adapt to. The younger generation like Xie Wanlong must not only adapt to the "sweeping king", loaders, forklifts and other equipment to replace traditional manual maintenance tools such as brooms and hoes, but also learn to apply new technologies to make judgments and respond to highway hazards in a timely manner.
In the 24-hour monitoring room of the road network center of the Anxi Highway Branch, Xie Zhiyuan, who graduated from Jimei University, and Shi Weilin, who graduated from Fujian Institute of Technology, are counting relevant data in front of the computer. In a year and a half, they jointly developed the daily water damage statistics software of the highway, added a command function on the basis of the original two-dimensional interactive map, and also designed a series of digital applications such as the highway information inquiry system and the highway disaster mini program, so that the front-line road maintenance workers can report road condition information to the road network center more convenient and fast.
This group of college student road workers are willing to endure more exposure and wind and rain than their peers. The work of road maintenance workers themselves has also been constantly upgraded and changed with the development of technology. The advantage of youth is to adapt quickly and create new solutions, and all the expectations for the future come from the persistence and efforts in reality, and the new generation of road maintenance workers should be prepared.
Xie Zhiyuan (right) and Shi Weilin develop a working application. Fujian Daily reporter Wang Yi correspondent You Huiyi Lin Jinfeng photographed
Xie Wanlong (left) and his father-in-law work in a team. Fujian Daily reporter Wang Yi correspondent You Huiyi Lin Jinfeng photographed