【"Stories from the People Around Us" series report 25】Post-00s young craftsman - remembering Zhu Li, the industrial worker center

Wearing a white safety helmet, a blue work uniform, holding a walkie-talkie, and a whistle around his neck. Zhu Li, who graduated from university in 2021, came to the company and settled on the front line of project production, starting as a grassroots crane operator. Zhu Li is the apprentice of Liu Sijie, the leader of the company's crane master studio. In less than three years, he has become a rising star in the crane studio and is recognized as a "small craftsman." In 2023, the paper he co-authored, "Hoisting Technology of Large Lime Kilns in Paper Mills," was published in the Yunnan JianTou Science and Technology Report, and in November of the same year, it was published in the 11th issue of Installation Magazine.

Sorting out thoughts, entering a new role

As a newly graduated student full of curiosity about everything, when first entering the project, Zhu Li chased after the masters of various professions every day to ask questions, learning from professional construction workers how to read drawings and asking experienced crane operators how to carry out construction operations. The senior masters on the project said that he was like a curious baby every day, with a hundred thousand whys.

At the beginning, Zhu Li couldn't read drawings, couldn't use CAD to draw, and didn't even know what a shackle was. Later, through his own research and analysis of drawings and the situation at the construction site, self-study of drawing software, and gradual contact with hoisting operation drawing, he learned and summarized experience in more than 100 ultra-high-risk hoisting construction projects. Today, he can independently complete the preparation of conventional hoisting and ultra-high-risk hoisting schemes and the drawing of hoisting drawings. Along the way, Zhu Li has gradually transformed from a novice to a qualified crane operator.

Full of passion, rooted in the crane post

As a crane operator, Zhu Li spends his days on the construction site pulling steel ropes, carrying slings, and carrying sleepers, and at night he reads materials and writes hoisting plans. Under this high-intensity work state, he has not been slack in the slightest, writing high-quality hoisting plans and independently guiding the completion of all hoisting work in the Beihai project.

In the Beihai project, he had to face temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius every day. Sweat often soaked his blue work uniform, wet and dry, dry and wet again, but for his beloved hoisting work, he chose to silently persevere. When encountering large-scale hoisting and a very tight schedule, many pieces of equipment were urgently needed to be hoisted into place. He would plan in advance, prepare the hoisting plan and safety technical briefing content, check the hoisting tools in advance, and after work, he would use a flashlight to measure the hoisting site. On the project front line, his best companions are the steel tape measure, the measuring wheel, and the chalk pencil he holds in his hand.

During hoisting, he is both a supervisor and a construction worker on site. He has to deal with steel wire ropes and shackles as thick as his arm. Sometimes, after pulling the steel wire ropes, his whole hand is numb and red, and his clothes and pants are soaked with sweat. When he rests at night, he takes off his shoes, and blisters form on his heels; when he opens his phone, his WeChat step count is as high as tens of thousands of steps. These seem to be a testament to the growth of this post-00s young man.

Self-encouragement, inspiring the heart of challenge

For Zhu Li, the work experience accumulated over the years is the foundation of his work. Most of the hoisting operations he is responsible for are ultra-high-risk hoisting operations. Whenever large-scale hoisting operations begin, he always feels a mixture of emotions, afraid that he has miscalculated something, afraid that the hoisted objects will slip during the hoisting process, afraid that the steel wire ropes will break... Every time he hoists, until the final unhooking, his anxious heart can finally be put down.

Every additional ton of hoisting equipment adds a degree of danger and challenge. When he went to the Beihai project alone, among the hoisting tasks he received, the heaviest storage tank weighed 100 tons, and the lightest weighed 25 tons. Faced with the hoisting work on site, he felt unprecedented pressure. From the moment he stepped onto the site, he was preparing for the later hoisting work. With heavy responsibilities on his shoulders, he dared not relax for a moment. The cold wind of the early morning blew on his face, and continuous overtime made his body a little unbearable. By the time the last word of the plan was written, his eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes. At that time, he often couldn't sleep all night because of the enormous psychological pressure. Hoisting work filled his mind, and even when he fell asleep, he would suddenly wake up. Fortunately, in the end, the hoisting plan he compiled, which was over 40,000 words and nearly 189 pages long, passed the expert review, and the hoisting tasks were successfully completed according to the hoisting plan.

This is Zhu Li, a post-00s small craftsman, a new-era industrial worker who is diligent, hardworking, and good at learning and thinking. Like many post-00s, he keeps pace with the times, using practical actions to interpret the meaning of youth, building his dreams with his skills, and constantly moving forward! [Industrial Worker Center/Yan Jingyi]