Prior to the Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, all units of CREC sent holiday greetings to their overseas employees and their families. By distributing open letters to overseas employees’ families, providing both online and offline voluntary mental health services for domestic and overseas employees alike, and strengthening special fund guarantee for epidemic prevention and control, the organizations ensured both physical and mental health of overseas employees and effectively relieved their families back at home of their concerns and worries. As of February 7, the company as a whole had allocated special greeting fund of 17.99 million yuan and sent epidemic prevention supplies and holiday gifts to more than 17,000 overseas employees and laborers.
▲ CREC’s trade union purchased epidemic prevention supplies and living goods for the company’s overseas employees, helped them have video calls with their families back in China, and organized cultural and art activities on the New Year’s Eve.
▲ On the eve of Chinese Lunar New Year, the project site of Foundiougne Bridge in Senegal, a division of China Railway Seventh Group Wuhan Branch, was adorned with Spring Festival couplets, Chinese knots and red lanterns, as a token of expressing their longing for homes from West Africa.
▲ The site of a Thailand project of China Railway No.10 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. is decorated with couplets and red lanterns to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Overseas employees remained on duty during the Spring Festival.
As many as 15,000 builders of the China-Laos Railway chose to stay put for the Spring Festival and stick to their posts, making every effort to ensure that the China-Lao Railway is completed and opened to traffic by the end of this year.
At the construction site of Phase II of a world-class mega copper-cobalt mining plant invested, developed, constructed and operated by La Sino-Congolaise Des Mines (Sicomines), all workers from the DR Congo Project Division of China Railway Hi-Tech Industry Co., Ltd. stayed at their posts and worked overtime to ensure tasks are accomplished on schedule.
