Sighing on the hard work of infrastructure builders

On that hot summer day in June 2011, I came out of the school’s on-the-job internship arrangement and qualified as a formal job-seeker. Fortunately, it didn’t take long for me to Signed a contract with the 16th Engineering Bureau of China Railway Construction and became an infrastructure construction worker of the People's Republic of China. After the induction training at the company, the first project made me feel very miserable. Is it really possible for me to persist here? Because the project location is at least three hours away from the nearest village by car. I had just graduated at the time. , although I have also practiced on construction sites, but it was in the city, not in the mountains and forests.

Fortunately, when I went to the project department, the project was almost coming to an end. At least there was electricity, water, roads, and signals. Because at that time, I heard that several comrades who accompanied me at the same time were assigned to a newly opened project. It was a real wilderness, with no electricity, no water, no roads, no signal, and no accommodation.

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Although life on the construction site is very difficult, we also have unlimited fun. After get off work, we go to the river behind the project department with our colleagues, go climbing, and play together. Together we drive away the weasels that steal our food and the monkeys that refuse to leave in our project department.

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Maybe you can’t imagine the pain of engineering construction, especially infrastructure construction, especially new roads in the wild. It is still very good to build pure roads, although it is a bit painful. . But when it comes to building tunnels, building tunnels in the wild cannot be done on a large scale like building tunnels around or in cities. For example, shield machines cannot be used in the wild. The only way is to dig manually. , the worker brothers first use drills to drill holes, and then the gunner brothers load explosives, fire cannons, and clean up mechanically and manually. This is the normal practice of field tunnel operations. When building tunnels, the biggest fear is springs, mud, and instability of the cave roof, because they can kill people.

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Friends in the north may have experienced snow, but may not have seen the heavy snow in the southern world. In the snowy world, we will still carry out construction work, because The temperature inside the tunnel can be summed up in one sentence, "warm in winter and cool in summer." In the summer, wear a coat and in winter, wear a "skin". The skin refers to the skin. If it is too hot, you don't want to wear clothes, you just want to be naked.

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Although I have been released from the unit due to physical reasons, a spirit is deeply engraved in me, a spirit of never admitting defeat as a railway soldier. Now, in the dead of night, I often think of the moments when I and my comrades fought against landslides, landslides, and mudslides.

China has gone from a country with backward facilities to a country with the world’s best infrastructure. From scratch, it is all thanks to these people who are willing to quietly dedicate their youth and blood to it. We overcome obstacles. Now every time I travel and drive a vehicle on the road, I will think of them. They built the motherland with their own flesh and blood and silently contributed to the motherland