2019 China-Central and Eastern European Countries Year of Education and Youth Exchange opens.

  Cctv news January 9, 2018 China — Closing Ceremony of the Year of Local Cooperation in Central and Eastern European Countries and 2019 China — The opening ceremony of the Year of Education and Youth Exchange for Central and Eastern European Countries was held at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. China, Deputy Foreign Minister of China — Wang Chao, Secretary General of the Secretariat for Local Cooperation in Central and Eastern European Countries, Zhu Zhiwen, Vice Minister of Education, Chen Lvping, Vice Governor of Liaoning Province, and representatives from 16 Central and Eastern European countries attended the meeting.

Opening ceremony site

Opening ceremony site

  2018 is China — Year of local cooperation in central and eastern European countries. According to Wang Chao, driven by the "16+1" year of local cooperation, four Chinese provinces and 17 local provinces and cities in Central and Eastern European countries became new members of the "16+1" local provincial governors’ association last year.

  Chen Lvping, Vice Governor of Liaoning Province, summed up the year of local cooperation in 2018 and announced that Liaoning will hold the working group meeting of "16+1" local provincial governors’ association in 2019. Liaoning Province is one of the founding members of the "16+1" local provincial governors’ association. On October 20, 2018, Liaoning took over as the Chinese chairman of the Federation.

  Mrs. Bisera Fabrio, Chargé d ‘affaires of the Croatian Embassy in China, delivered a speech on behalf of 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. She said that China in 2018 — The Year of Local Cooperation in Central and Eastern European Countries has achieved many meaningful results. In April 2019, China — The meeting of leaders of Central and Eastern European countries will be held in Dubrovnik. As the organizer, Croatia is actively preparing for this.

  On the same day, China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said at a regular press conference that the local governments of the "16+1" countries actively participated in pragmatic cooperation in various fields and made positive progress in park construction, economy and trade, science and technology, education and humanities. China has now twinned with more than 160 pairs of friendly provinces, prefectures and cities in Central and Eastern European countries.

  2019 is China — Year of education and youth exchange in Central and Eastern European countries. Zhu Zhiwen summarized the achievements made by China and Central and Eastern European countries in the field of educational cooperation from the aspects of the scale of international students, language teaching cooperation, inter-school cooperation and campus sports cooperation. At present, there are 34 Confucius Institutes and 44 Confucius Classrooms in Central and Eastern Europe, with more than 40,000 students. While 18 universities in China have set up 55 undergraduate language majors in Central and Eastern European countries. At the same time, with the entry of the Winter Olympics into Beijing, ice and snow sports have become a new highlight of educational cooperation.

  In July 2018, the seventh China — The meeting of leaders of Central and Eastern European countries was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. The meeting adopted the Sophia Outline and determined 2019 as China — Year of education and youth exchange in Central and Eastern European countries. Chen Lvping pointed out that education and youth are the foundation and hope of China’s relations with Central and Eastern European countries. Fabrizio said that Croatia will prepare a series of activities in 2019 to promote cultural exchanges and cooperation, in which young people will play an important role.

Theatrical performance

Theatrical performance

  After the opening ceremony, there will be a cultural performance. Children and young actors performed Chinese zither and drum music, Beijing opera, piano solo and other programs. (Wen Hejing)

"Value Creation" Leads Workers’ Life to "Happiness Upgrade"

When I came to Tongjiang, Sichuan, a mountain stood tall and mountainous, and countless dangerous roads, deep canyons and valleys made people linger. Winding along the provincial highway 204, the house with red tiles and white walls, which is the residence of Qingyukou Reservoir Project of China Railway 11th Bureau, is located in the mountains of full of green, which is particularly eye-catching. Recently, the 11th Bureau of China Railway has built an intimate, comfortable, civilized and harmonious workers’ home in the project site.

Project Resident (Photo courtesy of China Railway 11th Bureau)

The project has a planned construction period of 67 months, surrounded by mountains and inconvenient transportation. How to build a caring, comfortable, civilized and harmonious home for employees in the project with long construction period and poor environment, and how to "upgrade happiness" for employees’ lives through value creation actions has become the primary problem of the project.

Adding "face value" externally and refining "temperament"

"I never dreamed that I could live in an’ ecological community’ in full of green." Sun Wugang, captain of the survey team of Qingyukou Reservoir Project of China Railway 11th Bureau, said with a big smile that he had gone through more than ten projects, and this was the most beautiful place where he lived.

Walking into the project site, a lush face hit. Movable flower stands adorn every corner of the station, the walls are covered with bionic turf, and the grass is planted below, so the station is full of vitality. "Piece-by-piece" greening pattern echoes the pines and cypresses on the mountains behind it, showing the beauty of nature.

In the "mini-park" between the corridors in the dormitory area, employees can watch the game on the stone table, take a leisurely walk on the "S"-shaped aisle, or take selfies next to the newly blooming flowers … The park with an area of less than 80 square meters has become a good place for employees to relax, take a nap and have a morning exercise.

When I come to Happy Farm, the employees will dig up the soil and water the land after work, and they are very busy. Zhang Ming, secretary of the Party branch of the project, said that Happy Farm is divided into fields and managed by employees themselves, which not only allows everyone to taste fresh and delicious fruits and vegetables after hard farming, but also enhances employees’ sense of acquisition and happiness.

Project workers reclaim vegetable fields (Photo courtesy of China Railway 11th Bureau)

Building "innovation" and serving "mind-wandering"

When you visit the project staff dormitory, you will find that, unlike the traditional dormitory, a partition board is installed in the middle, which divides an original 3×6-meter standard dormitory into two 3×3-meter small single rooms.

"Don’t underestimate this board, not only not afraid to disturb my roommate, but also give me a comfortable and private space." Jiang Lan, an employee of Qingyukou Reservoir Project of China Railway 11th Bureau, praised the minor changes in the dormitory.

At the beginning of entering the site, the project team decided to rotate the standard dormitory by 90 degrees through the topographic investigation and overall layout of the project site, and split the double dormitory into a single dormitory in the form of "dividing the dormitory and sharing air conditioning". The results show that it can not only achieve the goal of single dormitory for employees, but also save the space of eight standard dormitories, further optimizing the allocation of home construction expenses.

Compared with the "innovation" of single-room dormitory, the personalized service of employees is "taking the heart". The "tree hole mailbox" hand-made by employees is particularly conspicuous. Employees can put troubles, whispers or suggestions on the project into the mailbox, which will be collected by the project office in a unified way, so as to reasonably meet their thoughts and expectations.

The "point-to-order" service in public areas can meet the needs of employees for "ordering food", "ordering books" and "penalty". What they want to eat, read and play can be served in a day. Many employees laughed and said, "This service is more timely than I bought express delivery."

In addition, the project insists on high quality, pays attention to details, advocates economy, seriously studies the problem of "urgent need" of employees, creates a "home" environment with sincere feelings, and creates a good atmosphere of civilization, harmony, unity, safety and happiness through warm-hearted activities such as collective birthdays and holiday condolences.

"Ascending" Position "Wisdom" Technology

While meeting the needs of employees’ office life, the needs of spiritual civilization cannot be left behind. Yang Liandi’s Denggao Cultural Hall is the core cultural position of the project.

Covering an area of 156 square meters, the exhibition hall is an educational position and a window for publicity, which blends the corporate climbing culture with the local red culture and fully displays the good image of the enterprise and the local cultural heritage. Relying on the exhibition hall, the project actively organizes cadres and workers in party member to carry out centralized study, party class education, theme party day activities, etc., so as to continuously improve workers’ ideological awareness and enrich their spiritual life.

The digital control center next to the exhibition hall is also one of the important "punch points" in the project station. The sand table of the reservoir dam and the large screen of information management and control are all available, and the most eye-catching one is the application display of BIM technology. The application can realize three-dimensional visual disclosure, automatic monitoring and other functions, and provide digital and informational technical support for efficient decision-making, demonstration, command, evaluation and emergency management of the project. Without going to the site, employees can remotely monitor and know the "health information" of the main structure of the dam in real time, thus realizing convenient and efficient office work.

In addition, the project is also equipped with a staff library, a spacious and comfortable activity room, a clean and tidy bathroom, a safe and intelligent pedestrian-vehicle diversion channel … complete resident facilities, and meticulous and caring services, all of which reveal the intentions and feelings of the project in the process of building a home.

In the next step, the project will continue to update and improve the construction of "home", highlight humanistic care, strengthen cultural guidance, help project production, make "home" more like home and make "home" happier.