April 16 at 10 pm, ACEG Hydro Company Limited - one of ACEG’s subsidiaries, an infrastructure and water resources developer and constructor, received an emergency notice urging it to send highly capable staffs to assist the construction of mobile cabin hospitals in Lu 'an - a city in the west of eastern China’s Anhui province, which has been badly affected by COVID-19.

The pandemic is a mandate, and time is life! Upon receiving the notice, the company began to call out the personnel and prepare materials and equipment overnight for the construction of the mobile cabin hospitals without any delay. At 1:00 p.m. on April 17, a technical team of 33 members with supplies and equipment, entered the worksite and formally began the works. On 18 April, the technical team was given an extra urgent task to erect the water and electricity pipelines for the makeshift hospitals at Subarea 7 in Zone B, all the staff of the team worked hard through the night until 5:00 am on the 19th, they completed all the tasks as scheduled. Three hours later, at 8:00 am on April 19, the team received the instruction to work for the finishing off and pre-delivery preparations for the handing over the facilities in Zone B, they continued to work until 10:00 pm on the same day and completed all the tasks with high quality and high efficiency.

A volunteer service team of 25 members from the company has been set up in response to the call of the Lu’an Municipal Party Committee and the Government. On April 18, with the approval of the city’s epidemic prevention headquarters, the first team of 11 volunteers went to the makeshift hospital in Lu’an Stadium to arrange the medical facilities and pandemic prevention materials there as required and worked side by side with the medics to ensure the hospital’s delivery and use as scheduled and the follow-up support works would be carried out in an orderly manner according to the plans.

Three days and 72 hours of hard working, the volunteer services against the pandemic, ACEG has once again demonstrated its well taking-on of the responsibilities as a state-owned enterprise and its unique working capability to bear hardships and aggressive working styles.

Let’s pay tribute to the workers and volunteers serving for combating the pandemic.