"Brush, brush, brush..." Every morning at dawn, the city's streets and alleys will ring a rhythmic broom of sanitation workers, who get up early in the dark, just wake up from sleep in the city "dress up". Lin Ying Cai, 62, is one of them.
On April 26, 11 am, in Longwen District, Xinpu Road East Sanitation Workers Rest Station, the author saw cleaning back Lin Yingcai. Just after finishing the work on hand, Lin Ying-cai's face was burned red and patted the dust on her body. She cheerfully said, "She used to be a farmer. It's still customary to clean up these things."
Lin Yingcai is a native of Houba Village in Longwen District. Both her children have become a family, but her daughter is deaf and mute. Her wife was paralyzed in bed with leg disorders the year before last. In the face of such a family, Lin should still be optimistic and active in every day. When she joined the sanitation workforce in 2014, she treasured the job, with a broom, a dustpan, a cleaning car and a work suit all her equipment. Over the past three years, she has been responsible for cleaning the nearly 1,000-meter section from the junction of Zhangzhou Second Experimental Primary School on Xinpudong Road to the junction of Zhangzhou Youth Activity Center, including sidewalks and motor vehicles. This street is the main road in Longwen District, there are many shops, traffic flow is quite large, cleaning difficulty and cleaning intensity is self-evident. Lin Yingcai said: "Every morning at 4:30 AM to get up and start, this time is our busiest time, not only to be responsible for the area of road cleaning, but also timely garbage clearance, to ensure that the road at 7:00 a.m. neat. After going home for breakfast and an hour's rest around 7 o'clock, I'll continue to clean up on the road until 11:30 a.m.
"Almost every day, nothing special. Now the quality of citizens is constantly improving, but also more in line with our sanitation workers'work, usually rubbish will be put into the trash can. For his job, Lin should be understatement. "I'm sure I'm tired. Clean up in the morning and keep clean in the morning. Walking up and down this street dozens of times is just exercise. I have a steady income of more than 2000 yuan a month, and I will be satisfied with my life.
Last year, the Sanitation Department of Longwen District built a rest station for sanitation workers on Xinpudong Road. It became a place for her and her colleagues to drink water and rest their feet. There were four benches on their backs, a ceiling fan and an engineering fan. There were wardrobes and cabinets for sanitation workers to temporarily store their belongings. Equipped with hot water tanks, medicine boxes, lounges, equipped with toilets, bathrooms, water heaters.
According to Xu Zhiqiang, head of the inspection group of Buwen section of Longwen District Environmental Sanitation Department, there are more than 100 environmental sanitation workers on the main roads of Buwen Town. The average age is about 55 years old. Many young people are reluctant to do this work because of the heavy labor intensity, low social level and long working hours. Although he is a 62 year old man, Lin Ying Cai works hard and does not drag on. Sometimes, it is not easy to sit at a rest stop. She will always clean up the facilities inside.
Lin Yingcai said, "I'm too old to do anything else. I hope the way I clean up is clean every day, so that everyone can be satisfied with it." In spring, summer, autumn and winter, regardless of the cold and heat, Lin Yingcai and her colleagues worked hard to keep the city clean and tidy and dedicated unknown. Zheng Jihua