Zhang Zhixiang: Forever Young Teda People

Zhang Zhixiang: Forever Young Teda People
"Hao Ran is angry, awakened by the stars sparkling cold. Horrible waves rushing to increase tactful, the wind is also lingering cloud."

A sonorous and powerful Peking Opera singing kicked off a new day of morning exercises in the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (TEDA Cooperation Zone for short). This is a rare relaxed time of the day for the TEDA cooperation zone operation team. Everyone improves their immunity by running, kicking shuttlecock, skipping rope, etc., and also ensures that they devote themselves to the intense daily work of the cooperation zone with high spirits. Among them, Zhang Zhixiang, assistant to the executive director of the Egyptian TEDA Special Zone Development Company, is particularly eye-catching. The 55-year-old is a senior theater fan who likes to hang his voice during morning exercises. His opera also inspires the young people around him, making everyone face When it comes to high-intensity epidemic prevention and operation work in the cooperation zone, it is still full of motivation.

Veteran "chasing the epidemic", waiting for the transfer order without hesitation

Earlier this year, the clouds of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic hung over the land of China. Although it is located in Egypt, the epidemic prevention work in the TEDA Cooperation Zone is still arduous. Zhang Zhixiang is in charge of Egypt's TEDA Comprehensive Service Company, which is the main unit of epidemic prevention work in the cooperation zone. The service company is responsible for the work of killing temperature measurement, material supply, communication between enterprises in the park, security and defense, and personnel statistics. With the spread of the new crown epidemic, Zhang Zhixiang and other key employees in the anti-epidemic work in the cooperation zone ended their leave early and returned to Egypt to stick to their posts.

During his arrival in Egypt for isolation, Zhang Zhixiang organized and formulated the "China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone Epidemic Prevention Work Plan", and verified the epidemic prevention situation through video inspections to ensure that all epidemic prevention work in the cooperation zone was implemented. After the quarantine period, he led a team to go deep into the enterprise to inspect the implementation of the enterprise's epidemic prevention work, to investigate the hidden dangers of epidemic prevention in the cooperation zone, and often led a team to patrol and patrol the park late at night to ensure that there are no external unsafe factors, and to remind all personnel in the zone to wear masks, keep a distance, and actively prevent the epidemic. "Although we usually work very hard, but see the busy figure of teacher Zhang, we feel that we have not done enough, not enough detail. We have to work hard!" Meng Fanji of the same company said.

Strict control of details, park service excellence

The work of the service company is complicated. Emergencies such as power failure, water cut-off and machine damage often occur. Zhang Zhixiang leads the team to rush to the front line of emergency repair. On March 13, Egypt suffered the worst severe sandstorm and heavy rainfall in 26 years, resulting in a nationwide power outage in Egypt. In order to ensure the production and operation of enterprises entering the zone, Zhang Zhixiang immediately went to Egypt's Suez Canal Special Economic Zone to coordinate emergency repairs, and personally went to the repair site to guide, and the power supply in the TEDA cooperation zone returned to normal in time. "Doing a good job in park services not only tests professional knowledge, but also requires patience and meticulous work." "The service standards of the TEDA Cooperation Zone need to be constantly updated in combination with the actual situation, and it is meaningless to put them on the shelf. This week we will organize the revision and training of the original service standards again." At the morning meeting of the service company, Zhang Zhixiang always takes pains to emphasize the details of the work. The refined pursuit of work quality has continuously improved the service satisfaction of enterprises in TEDA Cooperation Zone.

Zhang Zhixiang (first from right) patiently persuaded an employee of an enterprise who did not wear a mask.
Facing the difficulties, the eight parties coordinate to solve the problem of constraints.

During the epidemic, Zhang Zhixiang was responsible for communication and coordination with enterprises in the zone. In order to ensure that enterprises in the zone understand the epidemic prevention information at the first time, Zhang Zhixiang led the establishment of the park enterprise epidemic prevention and control information group with WeChat and other carriers as a platform, so as to achieve full coverage of enterprises in the zone. Through WeChat group, timely release of domestic epidemic information, relevant epidemic prevention requirements of domestic competent departments, the requirements of the Chinese Embassy in Egypt for the prevention and control of Chinese-funded enterprises and various requirements of the prevention and control work in the country, ensure smooth information flow in all links, do a good job in uploading and distributing, reaching information and coordinating internally and externally, remind and supervise enterprises in the park to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, and ensure that the prevention and control work is in place. The enterprises entering the zone later renamed the WeChat group "Brothers and Sisters of TEDA's War Epidemic" and supported and encouraged each other in the group. Zhang Zhixiang's work was strongly supported by the enterprises entering the district. "After the epidemic occurred, we immediately set up an epidemic tracking group with the heads of all the enterprises entering the district. While conveying the epidemic prevention and control requirements of the Chinese and Egyptian governments, we asked the enterprises to submit the employee management situation (including the situation of returning to Egypt, isolation situation and daily temperature measurement of the Chinese and Egyptian employees in the enterprise, etc.) and the implementation of enterprise epidemic prevention. All companies are very cooperative with our work. Not only that, the heads of many enterprises are also looking for epidemic prevention materials through various channels, hoping to purchase and support the motherland. During this period of time, I feel that the cohesion of the Chinese people in the park is higher than before, and everyone pays special attention to their own image, which represents China." Zhang Zhixiang said.

Not only that, Zhang Zhixiang, as the person in charge of the operation of the TEDA Cooperation Zone, also often organizes corporate symposiums to understand the problems in the development of enterprises. At present, the problems faced by enterprises, such as importing recycled raw materials from Europe, tax-free entry of production materials imported by enterprises in the region, work permits for Chinese employees, and sewage treatment, have formed a list of constraints in the cooperation zone. Zhang Zhixiang, on behalf of the TEDA Cooperation Zone, actively coordinated with our embassy in Egypt and the Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office to fully promote the resolution of various problems.

Busy fun, caring and uniting team members

"Busy crazy April Fool's Day." "Children's Day requires us to have children's physique and vitality: today is too busy!" With the continuous improvement of the risk level of epidemic prevention in Egypt, there is a shortage of on-site personnel in the cooperation zone, and the work is piled up, "busy" has become the norm. That is, to ensure the business: construction handover, problem rectification, customer search, project negotiation, contract signing, check-in and other work. At the same time, we must do a good job of epidemic prevention: tracking the situation of isolated personnel, strictly guard against sticking to it; understanding the hearts of personnel, and doing a good job of dredging; and the Egyptian government, local indigenous people, etc.... This makes the cooperation zone on-site team a little overwhelmed. As the big brother in the team, Zhang Zhixiang always pays attention to everyone's emotions and often chats with everyone to relieve work pressure. During the break, Zhang Zhixiang was happy to cook some hometown dishes to reward his colleagues, noodles, dumplings, stewed beef, egg fried rice ...... The seemingly ordinary taste soothed the homesickness of his colleagues to a large extent.

In order to protect the land under their feet and protect China's national image, Zhang Zhixiang and his colleagues are still working hard. However, the second and third echelons of China-Africa TEDA's trip to Egypt have been assembled on standby, and the baton guarding the cooperation zone is about to be handed over.