Profile: Zhao Wei serves as deputy secretary of the Party Branch of the Zhongcheng Jingdian Community Neighbourhood Committee of Jiannan Street, Jingxiu District, Baoding City. She became an undergraduate Administration major at Baoding Radio and TV University in the autumn semester of 2018.
The 2020 Spring Festival was like no other before it, with the entire nation uniting to combat Covid-19. Late on 24 January 2020, the Zhongcheng Jingdian Community Neighbourhood Committee received an emergency notice ordering it to begin taking action.
The graver the crisis, the more serious our responsibilities. Zhao Wei, though four months pregnant, responded to the call and rushed to the front lines, even though her absence left behind only three staff of the community Party work committee.
"A closed door does not mean a closed heart”: ensuring that residents feel no estrangement
The community consists of 10 34-storey buildings of 2,475 households. To get detailed information about each household, Zhao Wei led the community workers in screening them, working day and night to leave out no one. Their task was to ascertain whether anyone in a household had had recent contact with someone from Hubei, whether anyone had a cough or fever, and whether anyone had been outside the community. To leave community resources available while maintaining contact with residents, Zhao Wei made her mobile-phone number publicly available, and continually urged strict precautions. Thorough management and screening created solid protection for the community.
Communication both online and off
Everyone was asked to stay home during the Spring Festival. As a pregnant woman, Zhao Wei had already formed a habit of walking over ten thousand steps daily, and now led her staff up one flight of stairs after another in order to reach every household. Both online and offline methods of disseminating information were put to use, with information placed on the community WeChat account, and distributed door-to-door in over 6,000 fliers.
Volunteering by both Party members and ordinary residents
Shortage of workers was the most serious problem, and Zhao Wei mobilised Party members and ordinary residents as volunteers – some manning checkpoints in shifts, others going door-to-door, and others helping with disinfection. They worked carefully in terms of attention to detail and coordination.
Leaving no stone unturned
Many of the tasks were tedious but essential: filing reports, screening thousands of households several times, assessing visitors, issuing resident passes, or delivering essentials to people in quarantine. Staff were busy all the time, including Zhao Wei, who would to come to work in the morning and return home after dark, always orderly and focused in her attention to duty.
According to her, she is making common cause with community workers all over the country, and following the RTVU mission of protecting health and safety. For as long as the epidemic continues, she will continue to contribute!
By OUC News Network