Chen Xuelian is a "Star" sanitation worker in the Dongfeng Sanitation Center of the calendar District, and has not returned home for the Spring Festival in 17 years. Newspaper reporter Chen Wei
the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and many people figure out how to spend their Spring Festival, but for the "city beautician", it is a luxury for them to rest. Chen Xuelian and his wife Li Shangqin, the sanitation worker of the Dongfeng environmental sanitation Institute in Licheng District, have not returned to their hometown for 17 years. A dumpling on New Year's Eve and a 4 hour break on New Year's Day is a holiday for them.
newspaper reporter Chen Wei
a bed of cotton a porcelain cup
is their whole family
Chen Xuelian is 58 years old this year, from Junan County, Linyi. More than 20 years ago, she and her wife took a quilt and a military porcelain cup, leaving home and coming to Ji'nan. In Ji'nan, she did odd jobs on construction sites and later did some other businesses. 17 years ago, she came to an environmental sanitation worker in Licheng Dongfeng environmental sanitation bureau, which was 17 years.
Chen Xuelian told reporters that her construction site had been completed and that no suitable work had been found temporarily. "One day, I saw a sanitation worker sweeping the floor in the street. I could do this job, so I came to the sanitation center."
Chen Xuelian is the "Star" sanitation worker in the environmental sanitation system of Licheng District. Chen Xuelian said that there was a Sunday afternoon at 3. It was said that there was no need to clean the South Road of Hong Lou, but before she went home, she revisited the road again. During the cleaning process, the Ji'nan health inspection team just came to this section and photographed its work.
"precisely because I was on duty on the road at that time, the inspection team was very satisfied with the sanitation work in Licheng District, and the leader of the environmental sanitation department told me afterwards." Chen Xuelian said, but for her, a job must be done well, whether or not it has been checked.
17 years without returning home in 17 years
eating dumplings is quite satisfied with
560 meters in total, and more than 3 a day in the morning, she goes out to clean the road. After cleaning, then go home for breakfast.
, she told reporters that since she left home, she had never returned to her old home, and the old people were not there, only a little uncle.
"actually does not want to go home, but there is no time." There is little rest time for the sanitation workers, especially during festivals. When people go out to play, the amount of garbage is much more natural than usual, and our workload is even greater. " Chen Xuelian said.
for the sanitation workers, the Spring Festival and the peacetime are not two, if the only difference is that the cleaning of the garbage is more, the work is harder. Chen Xuelian's wife Li Shangqin is in charge of a community vegetable market, with more garbage, but he never lets garbage on the road for more than 2 hours.
"we patrol every day, clean up in time if there is rubbish, otherwise I am sorry that the monthly salary is 1050 yuan." Chen Xuelian said that in the early morning of the new year, they would go to the road to clean up, and they could rest until nine o'clock, and then go back to work until 1:30 pm. These 4 hours would be the Spring Festival holidays.
during the Spring Festival, Chen Xuelian wrapped the dumplings in the sanitation worker's apartment and called the whole family a family reunion dinner. Though sometimes homesick, he never had time, so he never set foot on his way home.
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children's junior high school dropout feels ashamed of them
just dry sanitation workers, Chen Xuelian income 450 yuan a month, only to maintain the normal life of his family. Due to limited family economic conditions, sons and daughters dropped out of school after working in junior high school and worked in Ji'nan.
when Chen Xuelian went to school, his daughter studied well. He often took the first place in the class, but later the family could not afford it and had to let the child drop out. Nowadays, sons and daughters have already got married, but every time they face them, Chen Xuelian is always guilty.
"as long as we can afford it, we must let the children go to college. Only when they are admitted to universities can they have a way out, but we really have no way out. The children understand us and never complain. " Chen Xuelian said.
it is understood that there are more than 160 sanitation workers in Dongfeng environmental sanitation department, and can not go home during the Spring Festival. On the 26 day, the Mengcheng dairy industry of Licheng District Management Bureau sent 1200 boxes of milk to the workers. It was also an early celebration for them.
the head of Dongfeng environmental sanitation bureau said that the sanitation workers worked very hard, and the Spring Festival could not go home and reunite with their families. They can only do their bit to improve the daily life of the sanitation workers, so that the workers can feel at ease here.