Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country, and the Kyzylorda-Zhezkazgan highway under construction is the country's first north-south corridor that will lead directly to the Russian border. In November 2021, Guizhou Highway Group undertook the fifth bid section of the project, which will complete the construction of 30 kilometers of highway in 690 days. Although the project has recently entered the winter break, the enterprise staff has not yet been able to return to China, and Wang Wenjin, the protagonist of today's story, is one of them.
Starting from Kyzylorda City, after 170 kilometers of no man's land, is the Guizhou Highway Group Project Department renovated from old containers. Taking advantage of the winter break, the local transportation department conducted a phased inspection of the project.
The year-end inspection was jointly organized by the owners of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the local transportation bureau, the supervision and other units. The inspection content mainly includes the physical construction progress, quality, and safety progress of the project. Wang Wenjin, deputy project manager of Kere 5 bid, said happily, "In this inspection, our project has been highly praised and recognized by various units, and they hope that we will make persistent efforts in the follow-up project promotion and complete the production task with high quality and high standards." ”
Wang Wenjin came to Kazakhstan in July this year, and half a month before his departure, he was also the first secretary of Xiaohongzhai Village in Qinglong County. During his two years in the village, he led the villagers to complete the hardening of the village's industrial roads, treated several long-term collapsed slopes, and helped more than 20 people to work in highway construction projects.
As soon as the residency in the village was over, Wang Wenjin rushed to Kazakhstan without stopping. As the no-man's land deepened, he looked at the endless desert in front of him, and his heart was mixed.
It was the first time to go out such a long way, and it was very difficult and confusing at first. I don't know how to speak Kazakh, and when I usually carry out projects, I show them to the other party through mobile phone translation software, and then make a series of body language comparisons. The most difficult thing when I was stationed in the village was that the relationship between the cadres and the masses was not easy to control, but I was able to communicate with the people normally. But here he doesn't understand what I say, and I don't understand what he says. Wang Wenjin said helplessly.
Communication is extremely difficult, not only in language, but also in the difference in work philosophy and management mode of both parties.
The management here is relatively simple, and the workers only do one thing a day. We came to see the problems and gathered everyone for a meeting. The dry roadbed can be dry pavement, and the dry pavement can be attached to it, and this concept will be changed, and then they will form a coherent construction. So we had less than 20% of the project completed in the previous 4 months, and 70% after 4 months. Wang Wenjin introduced.
Through cooperation with them, we have a deeper understanding of project management, they have implemented a post and dual responsibilities management, production to manage safety, quality, environmental protection, but also to control costs, this is our unprecedented experience, but also improve work efficiency. Thier, the subcontracting project manager of the Kere 5 bid project, said.
After a few months, everyone reached a tacit understanding at work and became friends, and Wang Wenjin gradually adapted to this no-man's land where there was no even a mobile phone signal.
Wang Wenjin said with emotion that when he first came, he was very Xi to have no signal, and when he really missed his family, he took his mobile phone to flip through the photo album, and when he had the Internet, he ** some of the ** sent from home, as well as the voice of the children reading, so that their growth could be recorded.
On this day, when colleagues had a dinner, Wang Wenjin took out a treasured collection of chili peppers, which his wife entrusted someone to bring from Guizhou.
If you want to save, save some food, that's all there is to it. Wang Wenjin joked.
Wang Haoyu, head of the engineering section of the Kere 5 Standard Project, said, "When we came to Kazakhstan, because we had different eating Xi from the locals, we could only cook by ourselves, and we all had a deeper relationship in a foreign country and became friends with the locals." ”
Halimujiang, assistant surveyor of the Kere 5 Standard Project, said, "I am very grateful to Guizhou Highway for coming to Kazakhstan to build roads for us, and we have established a deep friendship in both work and life." ”
"We are very happy to have Chinese professionals come to Kazakhstan to help build roads, exchange experiences and learn from each other Xi This project is of great significance, and it has brought great help to business exchanges, raw material transportation, and people's travel, and I am very grateful. ”
On this year's National Day, Wang Wenjin changed his WeChat profile picture to a map of China, saying that only when a person is in a foreign land can he really feel the longing for the motherland and truly understand the strength of the country.
Most of the materials on the supermarket shelves here are imported from China, and the equipment used in the production process is made in China, which is relatively proud of being a big country. The Belt and Road Initiative is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and the construction of this road shows the friendship between our two countries, builds a platform for future economic and trade exchanges between the two sides, and hopes to successfully complete the construction task and lay a solid foundation for the subsequent project advancement." Wang Wenjin said.
Reporter's note: It took a long time to contact Wang Wenjin, after all, in the uninhabited area of Kazakhstan, which is 5,535 kilometers away from Guiyang, there is no signal is a big problem. More often than not, we waited, waiting for Wang Wenjin to return to the temporary project department every night and have a brief network call with us with the help of a very unstable signal tower. In that endless desert area, there are hardly any plants that can grow, but the project department of Guizhou Highway Group, which is transformed from a container, stands in the core of the no-man's land. We can't help but sigh at the willpower and sense of belief of the highway people, this desert highway through no man's land has witnessed the "Made in Guizhou" to the world again, and also witnessed the deep friendship between China and Kazakhstan two "Belt and Road" countries.
Reporter: Chen Qiuhua, Xie Xin).