The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted the spring’s coming. Affected by the COVID-19 prevention and control measures of the Lao government, a large number of old employees of the china-laos railway project were unable to resume to work.

Vientiane in northern, on the construction site of the 10th bureau of water resources and hydropower of China Power Construction Corporation, project schedules are tight, but workers are scarce.

At the critical moment, the Chinese staff in the project department took over the work of the old staff without hesitation.

Laos is very hot in March and April, with temperatures often exceeding 40 degrees Celsius.

The leaders of the project are all on the production line, among them include technical cadres, office workers; drivers are also in the production line. They range from college students fresh out of school to workers in their fifties.

They are only for the integrity of the enterprise and the reputation of the motherland.

Li qiang, the project manager, suffered a waist injury, Insist on driving pickup trucks to deliver steel beams and drinking water to the site; project chief economist Du huicai in the busy work gap, also put on work clothes to the site to help; eight technical cadres, who had never participated in excessive physical labor, knelt for a long time on the viaduct nearly 10 meters above the ground to install a steel beam weighing more than 60 jin, They have sore backs and sore legs that make them unable to sleep at night, but they don't complain.

Liao weirong and Hong xiangqian two drivers will retire soon, but now also with the young people rushed to the front line work. Looking at the young man busy working figure, two old comrades what regrets, “the spirit of hard struggle never fades, which is our fine tradition!”

The railway project department of the 10th bureau of hydropower and industry reversed the passive situation and avoided the danger of production and operation with the Chinese employee efforts.According to Li qiang, Chinese employees installed 52,032 screws and more than 4,000 steel beams during the bridge deck construction alone, saving more than two months of construction time and ensuring the scheduled handover of the railway paving face.

Chinese constructors are scrambling for progress on various construction sites race against COVID-19 to ensure steady progress in the China-Laos railway project:

On April 1, the Ban Ladhan Mekong River Super Major Bridge of China-Laos railway was successfully closure; On April 20, the 40-meter four-tube communication tower of the China-Laos railway station in Vientiane station was successfully completed; On April 22, China-Laos railway Xiangnen tunnel 4 was successfully completed; On April 23, the China-Laos railway luang prabang Mekong super major bridge was completed; On April 29, the China-Laos railway Ban Konlouang Tunnel was successfully completed……

The China-Laos railway is a docking project between Belt and Road Initiative and Laos' strategy of "transforming landlocked countries into landlocked countries", it stretches for 414 kilometers from the Laos-China border port of Boten in the north to Vientiane, the capital of Laos, in the south. The railway is built entirely using Chinese management standards and technical standards, with a design speed of 160 km/h, for electrified passenger and freight rail. The project will be fully started in December 2016 and is scheduled to open to traffic in December 2021.