This article**: People's Daily Online.
People's Daily reporter Sun Guangyong.
Thailand is one of the countries in Southeast Asia where the Spring Festival atmosphere is strong. In Bangkok's Yaowarat Chinatown, red lanterns are hung high, a dazzling array of New Year's goods are placed on the shelves, and at the busy Suvarnabhumi Airport, groups of Chinese compatriots in Thailand have embarked on flights home for the New Year, but along the railway line of Ayutthaya, there is a group of people who silently stick to the story of the struggle of the overseas builders of the "Belt and Road", who are the builders of the 4-3 bid section of the Sino-Thai high-speed rail project in China Construction.
Eighty kilometres north of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, a high-speed railway parallel to the old railroad tracks is under construction. On March 29, 2021, China State Construction signed a contract for Section 4-3 of the China-Thailand high-speed rail project. As the flagship project of the high-quality Belt and Road Initiative between the two countries, the China-Thailand high-speed railway is the first high-speed railway in Thailand, which will form a transportation channel connecting China, Laos and Thailand after completion, greatly improve the travel efficiency of residents, promote the improvement and upgrading of Thailand's railway system, and become an "accelerator" for the Indochina Peninsula to move towards interconnection and a "new engine" to promote regional cooperation to common prosperity.
In 2023, the project team of the 4-3 bid section of the Sino-Thai high-speed rail project overcame challenges such as high temperature floods and pipeline demolition and modification, completed a series of design optimization and process improvement, and successfully achieved important engineering nodes such as 100-hole breakthrough in the beam frame and more than half of the tunnel boring, and made significant progress in the performance progress.
In the Spring Festival of 2024, during the critical period of the construction of the China-Thailand high-speed rail project, 53 Chinese employees of the project department stick to the front line of construction and present gifts for the New Year with hard work.
Early deployment, early force, and early landing, the annual performance can be smooth. Zheng Bo, chief technical engineer, said. Thailand will enter the rainy season in April every year, and frequent precipitation will have a great impact on the later construction, and whether the project can get off to a good start during the Spring Festival is crucial to the overall progress of the new year.
Complete the flood control emergency plan in advance, make construction arrangements in the rainy season as soon as possible, ensure that the production resources of the bridge erecting machine are in place, ensure the rapid progress of beam laying, ensure that the pouring of 10 bearing caps along the river is completed in advance, and minimize the impact of the rainy season on the construction, which are all important tasks that need to be completed during the Spring Festival. Production manager Gao Liang said.
Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, the Sino-Thai high-speed railway project department is getting stronger and stronger, and a series of activities such as Spring Festival stickers, dumplings making, basketball games, and cultural performances are overwhelming. At midnight, everyone greeted the New Year's Eve bell in a hearty singing, and a Sino-Thai chorus of "The Moon Represents My Heart" conveyed the overseas builders' expectations for reunion and love for their relatives.
In the new year, the builders of the Sino-Thai high-speed railway will turn their thoughts into enthusiasm for work, let the struggle build the Sino-Thai friendship bridge, promote the early completion of the Sino-Thai high-speed rail project, and write a new chapter of the Silk Road with youth. Project manager Zhou Jiayi said.