On January 11, party member volunteers from Gaohong Town, Lin'an District, Hangzhou came to the door to send the word "Fu" and a New Year gift package to migrant workers who were preparing to stay in the local area for the New Year. Photo by Xu Yu, Xinhua News Agency.
Recently, local clustered epidemics have occurred in some areas of the country, and many migrant workers are stranded; at the same time, some low-risk areas advocate "spend the New Year at home" and distribute "New Year gift packages" such as red envelopes and subsidies for staying at work. On the third Spring Festival under the epidemic, can workers from other places feel at ease and comfort when spending the New Year at home?
Some migrant workers "try to go back as much as possible": there is not much work at the end of the year, and I haven't gone home for the New Year in one or two years.
2022 Spring Festival is the third Spring Festival under the epidemic, and many migrant workers from foreign countries are more anxious to go home for the New Year.
A survey on the Spring Festival mobile intentions launched by Sina Weibo shows that in 2022, more than 72% of people choose "if conditions allow, they plan to go home for the New Year." In the same period survey in 2021, 50% of people chose "Yes, the tickets to go home have been bought."
Xiao Liu, a Harbin native who works in Beijing, bought a plane ticket home early. She said that last year, she was unable to go back due to the epidemic in Harbin, so she must go home for the New Year this year. "It's fun and fun to go home for the New Year."
Half of Xiao Liu's department are in other places. Everyone generally said, "If you want to go home for the New Year if you can buy tickets, you still have to go home for the New Year." Because she was worried that the train ticket would not be available, Xiao Liu and some colleagues chose more expensive air tickets.
The manager of , a housekeeping company in Beijing, introduced that in order to go home for the New Year, some migrant workers in Beijing have returned home one after another since New Year's Day. Only one-quarter of the remaining ones are left. "Many customers can't even make an appointment with cleaning services, and they are particularly short of people."
reporter learned that due to factors such as orders and the epidemic, some textile and manufacturing enterprises in the eastern region began to have holidays in mid-January, and workers from other provinces returned home to celebrate the New Year one after another.
The person in charge of a textile company in Jiangsu said that the holiday time this year is still normal, but it is slightly ahead of schedule than when there are more orders. Dandan, a Guizhou native who works in a small textile factory in , Suzhou, said that because there were no orders, the factory notified the holiday in mid-December last year.
Xiao Li, who works in a rail vehicle company in Qingdao , told reporters that when there were too many jobs in previous years, everyone would stay until the 29th or even the 30th. "I don't live much this year, and most people from other places left around the 20th."
He Yong, who works in an electronics factory in Dongguan , worked for 4 days in the Spring Festival last year, and earned 3,000 yuan more with the subsidy, but he still felt that he had less joy to go home for the New Year. He Yong said that when the epidemic broke out in Dongguan a while ago, he prayed that the epidemic would end soon and not affect his plan to go home for the New Year.
The heads of several companies in Dongguan said that they have registered their intention to move employees during the Spring Festival and will remind everyone to take personal protection. If there are new epidemic prevention requirements, the company will make arrangements.
Due to the uncertainty of the epidemic, some people are hesitant to leave or stay. Xiaoning, a Shanxi native who works in a restaurant in Beijing, has not been home for the New Year for two consecutive years. "I really want to go back this year, but I'm afraid that there will be an epidemic and I won't come back then," she said.
Many places advocate "Celebrating the New Year at home", and red envelopes such as subsidies and consumption coupons are retained
Since December last year, many places such as Beijing, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, and Nanjing have successively issued announcements to advocate "Celebrating the New Year at home". While advocating "not leaving unless necessary", many places have issued cash subsidies and consumption coupons to employees left behind during the Spring Festival. Shangyu District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province subsidizes 1,000 yuan per person for employees who stay in Yu who meet the application conditions; non-Zhejiang migrant workers who stay in Hangzhou can apply for a deduction coupon of 500 yuan per person and a one-time payment, and can also receive red envelopes and cash coupons with varying denominations during the Spring Festival; Hefei, Anhui, distributes 1,000 yuan for non-Anghui employees who meet the conditions....
reporter noticed that in addition to cash red envelopes, in order to retain employees from other places, many places also provide other rewards. Foshan, Guangdong distributed 100,000 tickets to popular attractions to migrant workers who stayed for the New Year and issued more than 10,000 movie packages.Wenzhou, Zhejiang will give 5 points to new residents points for new residents who stay in Wenzhou for the New Year and meet the relevant requirements.
has a variety of red envelope subsidies, which has made many foreign employees excited and choose to stay.
Deng Shu, who works as the production manager of Ruipu Energy Co., Ltd., is from Jiangxi. He said that if you stay in Wenzhou for the New Year, you will have three times the salary during normal holidays plus additional job retention subsidies, attendance subsidies, New Year red envelopes, etc., conservatively estimated that you can get 10,000 yuan more.
It is understood that Ruipu Energy Co., Ltd. has more than 3,200 employees, accounting for nearly 93% of the employees in other places. More than 2,000 people stayed this year, and 71.23% left behind.
Hou Hongling, a forklift worker from Yueqing Wuxing Concrete Co., Ltd., plans to continue to stay here this year. "Although I miss you that I can't go home, I can have the New Year with peace of mind in the company." She told reporters that the company just decorated the employee dormitory not long ago, and this year's subsidy is 2,000 yuan. Everyone has New Year's Eve dinner together and various group activities. According to preliminary statistics, 70% of the company's employees plan to stay in the company for the New Year.
There are still some people who stayed because they were worried about the risks of the epidemic and their work needs.
Zhejiang Shangyu Wolong Holding Group Co., Ltd. has accumulated a batch of orders due to the previous epidemic and is producing at full capacity, intending to get back the time delayed by the epidemic. It is understood that more than 2,500 of the company's 3,591 employees are planning to stay.
Fan Meng, a migrant worker from Nanchong, Sichuan, is one of them. At the age of 32, he originally planned to go home this year. "The epidemic situation is still serious now, and there are risks in running back and forth. I need my production in the company. There are also subsidies. Not going back is a better choice." The same idea is also the company's electrical operator Song Xueyan and his wife. Because my hometown is in Gansu, I have to go back to a certain place of epidemics, and there are risks and hidden dangers. Song Xueyan plans to start construction first. After the epidemic stabilizes, the couple will take leave to go back to their hometown.
Han Maohua, a courier from JD Express Shanghai Jiuting Branch, took the initiative to apply for Spring Festival duty this year and did not return to his hometown, Mianyang, Sichuan. "There are few people on duty during the Spring Festival and many orders, so you can earn thousands more yuan. In addition, everyone really needs us," he said.
iFLYTEK stationed in Beijing Winter Olympic Village new business engineer Liu Yanru began to provide guarantee services for the Winter Olympics on January 18. "This year will be my first time spending the New Year alone in another place. My parents are very supportive and encourage me to experience more young people," she said.
Standed personnel in medium and high-risk areas: precise prevention and control, safe New Year
In accordance with the "2022 New Year's Day and Spring Festival Work Plan for the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival", personnel in medium and high-risk areas and counties (cities, districts, and banners) strictly restrict travel. For a large number of foreign personnel who stay in the local area for the New Year, how to ensure a healthy and safe New Year while accurately preventing and controlling the situation is a great challenge.
During the interview, the reporter found that some people from other places were caught off guard by the sudden outbreak of the epidemic and were temporarily stuck and unable to return home during the Chinese New Year.
Some medium-risk areas in Xi'an are still under closed management. 60-year-old Sichuanese Qin Faren and several other workers worked on construction sites all year round, and in the past, they would go home early during the Chinese New Year. This year, they are stranded in the urban village near the Fengdong New City project site in Xixian New District, Xi'an. "Now our place is still in a medium-risk area, and we are mentally prepared to celebrate the New Year locally. Each person has a room and cooks their own food. There is plenty of rice, flour, oil, vegetables and meat." Qin Faren said.
At the construction site of the South Campus of Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of China Railway No. 1 Bureau, the reporter saw that the installer Yang Junjie and his colleagues were working nervously. 44-year-old Yang Junjie is in Henan. Although he misses his relatives, due to the tight construction schedule and the epidemic in both places, he and many Henan workers cannot go home this year. According to the project manager, Bie Hongliang, there are currently 576 left-behind migrant workers. In order to allow everyone to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind at the construction site, the company has learned in detail about the specific needs of workers and prepared the New Year’s Eve dinner according to different tastes.
Some communities in Jinnan District, Tianjin were included in the control scope, which disrupted the plan of Meituan takeaway rider Wang Ye to return to his hometown in Northeast China for the New Year. In the past few days, he has voluntarily applied to become a community volunteer and travels to buildings every day to remind residents to do nucleic acid.
Yu Xiaobing, a decoration worker from Huanggang, Hubei, and his lover were "banned" in the community while performing interior decoration in Hung Hom Lenshi County, Jinnan District, Tianjin. Yu Xiaobing said that there are still many owners in the community who are decorating their homes recently, and there are still some decoration workers who have been "banned" like their couple. The owner specially vacated a room for the couple to live temporarily. Since the community was closed, the decoration materials could not be transported in. "I can't finish the work I have in my hands and I can't pay the wages." Yu Xiaobing was helpless.
The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism points out that we must use our hearts and emotions to ensure the daily necessities of the people in the blocked community to ensure that the people’s demands can be promptly responded and resolved.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, Fengdong New City, Xixian New District, Xi'an City specially set up a special team for people's livelihood relief, focusing on tens of thousands of workers stranded in the jurisdiction, timely allocated multiple supermarkets to ensure the supply of materials, and comprehensively guaranteed the living problems of stranded people through regular inspections and condolences.
Zhao Fei, deputy director of the Social Organization Administration Bureau of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, said that as the Spring Festival approaches, it is predictable that a large number of migrant workers will still be unable to return home. In order to ensure the basic living security of migrant workers stranded in Xi'an during the Spring Festival, we will further play the role of the information docking platform for the "joint fight against the epidemic" joint action of social organizations and continue to provide assistance to migrant workers and other groups.
Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph
