Visiting Chengzi High-speed Railway Construction Site on New Year’s Eve： 25 worksites don’t stop working, and more than 1,300 people stick to the front line ｜ Going to the grassroots in the New Year

Cover journalist Cao Fei’s photo report

On January 31, New Year’s Eve, when most people stayed at home to celebrate the New Year, a group of people had to stay in other places and stick to the construction line for the convenient travel of the public.

On the morning of the same day, the reporter walked into the construction site of China Railway 19th Bureau Chengzi High-speed Railway Bid 7 to record their persistence stories. If we expand our vision to the whole line of high-speed rail, during the Spring Festival holiday, 25 work sites will not stop, and more than 1,300 people will fight in the front line, sprinting to achieve the goal of opening to traffic in 2023.

Do not stop work during the Spring Festival.

Starting from Chengdu, driving southbound for more than 40 kilometers, you will come to the multi-line bridge of Chengdu-Chengdu high-speed rail Tianfu Station. At 10 o’clock in the morning, more than 50 workers from the 19 th Bureau of China Railway are carrying out bridge support and preloading construction on site.

Tianfu station multi-line bridge construction site

Tianfu station multi-line bridge is a control project built from high-speed railway, with a total length of 566.7 meters and a multi-line continuous steel structure. Standing on the bridge, the reporter saw this scene: the bridge deck gradually widened from narrow to wide, reaching 12 meters at the widest point, and the total area of the bridge top exceeded 35,000 square meters, which made it the largest among similar high-speed rail bridges under construction in China; There are 185 caps and 237 piers under the bridge, which are arranged in turn, forming a tall "arch" between them, which looks spectacular.

Tianfu station multi-line bridge construction site

"The construction of this bridge was nearly a year late, and the construction was difficult. The construction period was very stressful and there was no way to stop work during the Spring Festival." Zhang Zongwei, commander of Chengziyi Railway Command of Chenglan Railway Company, said. Bridge construction includes many processes, such as supporting, preloading, binding steel bars, concreting, tensioning, etc. Each process is interlocking, and any stop will affect the overall construction period.

Longquanshan Tunnel Construction Site

Leaving the multi-line bridge at Tianfu Station, about one kilometer eastward, it is the entrance of Longquanshan Tunnel. The construction here is even more intense: the knocking of binding steel bars, the humming of rock drills and the squeaking of welding current … played the engineering symphony on the last day of the Year of the Ox.

Longquanshan Tunnel Construction Site

"The entrance of the tunnel is the accumulation body of Chengdu Plain in front of Longquan Mountain Range. The geology is very soft and the surrounding rock is broken. The problem of deformation was encountered during the construction of the underground tunnel." Zhang Zongwei said that the project department temporarily adjusted the up-and-down heading method to the double-side heading method, which effectively controlled the deformation problem, and the monthly digging ruler was increased from several meters to about 15 meters.

It is reported that the No.19 Bureau of China Railway will not stop working during the Spring Festival. Among them, the two bridges are expected to be completed in May, and the Longquanshan Tunnel will strive to be completed in August.

Persistence is also warm.

Near 12 noon, the morning construction was finished, and the workers returned to the project department, waiting for them with a hot jiaozi and a sumptuous reunion dinner.

The employees’ families package jiaozi in the project department.

The 19th Bureau of China Railway started from the Third Project Department of the High-speed Railway Command, and more than 20 employees’ families wrapped up jiaozi in the yard, which brought the atmosphere of the New Year to a climax. There are two kinds of dumpling stuffing-leek eggs and celery pork, which are the flavors from my hometown.

Reunion dinner in the project department

"During the Spring Festival this year, there were more than 500 people staying at the construction site in Bid 7, including more than 100 project managers, most of whom came from Inner Mongolia, Jilin and Liaoning." Wang Jianwei, commander of Chengdu-Zicheng High-speed Railway Command of the 19th Bureau of China Railway, said that in order to ensure that everyone can spend the New Year in a foreign land and invest in construction, the project department encourages employees to take their families to Chengdu to spend the New Year on the construction site.

Reunion dinner in the project department

"My wife and son also came this year." Wang Jianwei’s hometown is in jiaohe city, Jilin Province. He has been working for 36 years, and spent more than 20 years on the construction site. In 2022, it was his seventh consecutive year in other places.

The employees’ families package jiaozi in the project department.

"I must still be homesick." He said. In order to let everyone feel the taste of hometown in a foreign land, the chef has made great efforts in the reunion dinner, including frozen skin, pig’s trotters in sauce, stewed elbows … and jiaozi, who was personally wrapped by his family. Material subsidy+spiritual comfort, so that everyone can feel the warmth of home on the construction site.

Reunion dinner in the project department

Such a picture is being staged across the high-speed rail. Zhang Zongwei introduced that Chengzi high-speed railway is expected to open to traffic in 2023, and has now entered the construction sprint stage. During this Spring Festival holiday, 25 work sites across the line did not stop working, and more than 1,300 people stuck to the construction line.

(Some pictures in this article are provided by Chenglan Railway Company.)