On February 9, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the sea area of Lingdingyang was vast and the drizzle brought layers of cold. The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, a major national engineering project and a super project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, has been connected by the main line, like a giant dragon, spanning the east and west banks of the Pearl River Estuary. At this time, there are only 4 months left before the target time with the conditions for opening to traffic, and the construction of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor has entered the sprint stage.
The early opening of the Shenzhong Passage is the New Year's wish of every 'Shenzhong person'! On Chinese New Year's Eve, Geng Yuming, the leader of the S15 standard labor cooperation team of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, said while installing a drainage well on the Zhongshan Bridge in the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel. In order to ensure that the construction of the project does not slow down, there will still be about 500 builders of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor like Geng Yuming stationed at sea for the Spring Festival in 2024.
The "pavers" and "lamplighters" on the Lingding Ocean
For two consecutive years, he stayed on duty during the Spring Festival. Geng Yuming said that in the past two years, his main work has been to lay asphalt for the bridge deck of the Shenzhong Passage. At its peak, he worked at the same time with more than 200 "pavers", at a rate of 1Laying bridge deck asphalt at a speed of 3 km. At present, about 13 kilometers of road surface are still unpaved, including underground tunnels.
This year's Spring Festival is mainly to carry out elastic concrete caulking construction and speed up the installation of more than 5,000 drainage wells. Geng Yuming said, "If you don't stay at the post, you are worried that the construction period is too tight, and strive to complete part of the work during the Spring Festival to prepare for the smooth opening of traffic!" ”
On the same Lingding Ocean, Zhang Ming, the youngest member of the landscape lighting team of the Shenzhong Channel Electromechanical 2 Standard Bridge Lighting Construction Project, just completed the installation of suspension lamps at an altitude of 100 meters a few days ago.
In order to complete the "fine decoration" of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage on time, eight people in Zhang Ming's team were responsible for the installation of lighting facilities on the Zhongshan Bridge, Lingdingyang Bridge and the West Artificial Island. Among them, the main span of the Lingdingyang Bridge of the Shenzhong Passage is 1,666 meters, and the height of the main tower is 270 meters, which is currently the world's largest span steel box girder suspension bridge and the world's highest navigable clearance scale sea-crossing bridge.
Zhang Ming and his colleagues install lamps and lanterns like "walking a tightrope", walking tens of thousands of steps at an altitude of 100 meters every day, and the screws screwed on the bridge alone are nearly 4,200 a day, which can fill a woven bag. In a month, 8 people turned 220,000 sets of screws.
Tiredness is certain, but what I want in my heart is to do a good job of the project step by step. Zhang Dalei, the team leader of the post-80s, said that in order to gain time for the installation of landscape lighting on the west artificial island, the 8-person team will continue to work at sea during the Spring Festival, just like "lights on the stars".
Hundreds of bridge builders shared the "reunion dinner".
There is also a Spring Festival atmosphere here, making dumplings and writing Spring Festival couplets together! Geng Yuming, the builder of the Shenzhong Channel, said. On the eve of the Spring Festival, at the project site of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, more than 100 builders of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor who stuck to their posts gathered to share the New Year reunion dinner, and participated in the 2024 Guangdong Trade Union's "Longteng New Year, Warm Workers" New Year Reunion Dinner Condolence Activity.
At a "reunion dinner" where builders from all over the world gathered and shared, local calligraphers dipped in ink and waved their good wishes on the Spring Festival couplets; Trade union cadres distributed free New Year's gift bags filled with grain, oil, snacks and red scarves; The builders of the Shenzhong Passage gathered together to make dumplings and took photos with the "first cup of milk tea in the beginning of the Guangdong Trade Union". In the evening, the Guangdong characteristic "poon choi" was served, and the builders sat around the table, with wonderful lion dance performances, Sichuan opera face changes and other programs, eating steaming poon choi and dumplings, and talking about homely things.
This is the last Spring Festival of the construction period of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, we not only organize everyone to make dumplings, eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and watch the Spring Festival Gala, but also visit the construction unit in the Lunar New Year, express condolences to the construction personnel, invite their families to come to Zhongshan for the New Year, and welcome the families of the personnel who stay on duty to visit. Huang Xiaochu, director of the safety management department of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel Management Center, said that after more than 10,000 builders for 7 years of struggle, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, which has achieved the main line in November last year, will be ready for traffic in June this year.
Southern ** reporter Zeng Yanchun.