The news that he could take leave to return to China to visit his family spread like wildfire in the base, and everyone's mood was suddenly affected.
Although everyone came to Lucia with full awareness, although the work was heavy and the environment was harsh in the past half year, it was not very difficult overall. It took a few months and half a year to persevere. It's really nothing too extreme.
But everything is afraid of something happening. After knowing that the superiors were discussing allowing everyone to go back to visit relatives, everyone couldn't help but be aroused in their thoughts.
They are now in Lucia, far away from their motherland. They are at least thousands of kilometers away from the country. The long distance physically isolates everyone from the country.
Although communication is not interrupted, it is obvious that the channels that can maintain communication with the country are official channels, which are not suitable and unlikely to be used for ordinary workers to call home and contact their families.
This is of course not to say that ordinary staff cannot use these communication equipment to make calls domestically, but most of the communication equipment through official channels only connects various domestic departments, and does not connect to shelters or individuals.
Therefore, even if communication equipment is opened to ordinary staff, they will only be able to call various departments in the country and will not be able to contact their families.
As for writing letters, that is another way. The express delivery that everyone was used to before the disaster is completely gone, but the national postal service is still in operation.
It’s just that all the previous postal codes and regional addresses have become messy due to this apocalyptic disaster. In addition, a large number of basic postal facilities have been damaged and the postal system has collapsed. Many addresses have been completely abandoned and there are no postmen to deliver letters.
Even if the letter can be sent back to China, it is not easy to find the corresponding address and deliver the letter to the recipient.
Not to mention receiving replies from China.
Under such circumstances, everyone has actually not contacted their families for a long time. They don’t know how their families are doing and whether everything is okay.
Before, you could use work to numb and convince yourself to try not to think about these things, but now that the superiors have said that everyone can go back to visit relatives, everyone can't sit still.
Some people directly approached their superiors and asked about returning to China to visit relatives. Even if they were a little more reserved, they were asking around, secretly estimating whether they would have the opportunity to return to China to visit relatives.
Such emotions undoubtedly affected everyone's work.
Although everyone works hard and does not delay work because of homesickness, everyone is thinking about it, which still affects morale and reduces work efficiency.
Originally, the purpose of letting everyone return to China to visit relatives was to ease everyone's thoughts and emotions and improve work efficiency as much as possible. However, it suddenly turned into what it is now, which Chen Xin and others did not want to see.
But at the same time, they also realized how serious the emotions in everyone's thoughts were.
After all, now is no different than before the disaster. The longing for my family accumulated over several months is enough to affect everyone's work status.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin summoned other people, and everyone formally held a meeting to discuss it and formulated a temporary regulation.
According to regulations, staff who have been in Lucia for more than four months can apply to a temporarily established coordination group and be scored according to a temporarily established evaluation standard, so that they can return to China in batches in a rotational manner in order. Visiting relatives.
Once the regulations were announced, they immediately attracted a strong response.
What everyone is discussing the most is of course the evaluation criteria. After all, it involves whether they can be the first batch of people to return to China to visit relatives, and everyone is very concerned about this.
Fortunately, the formulation of the evaluation criteria went through rigorous discussions and was not the result of a random decision. Generally speaking, there was no objection. Everyone was only concerned about how many points they could score and which batch they would be ranked in to return home.
Because it is a rotation system, only one group of people can return home after visiting relatives, and the second group can return to the country. If the group is later in the queue, they will undoubtedly stay in Lucia for a longer period of time than others.
Fortunately, after the regulations were announced, everyone's mood has finally stabilized a lot. In order to be able to return home to visit relatives as soon as possible, some people have even improved their work efficiency. Some people even took the initiative to work overtime during their breaks in order to complete their tasks as soon as possible. Work and accumulate more ratings.
Faced with this situation, Chen Xin and others breathed a sigh of relief. They were afraid that the regulations would arouse everyone's resentment. In that case, the problem would be serious.
But now, the result that everyone can accept and implement in accordance with the regulations is undoubtedly the most ideal.
However, this also made Chen Xin and others feel that they should arrange for everyone to return to China to visit relatives as soon as possible. After all, even if they are donkeys, it is impossible to keep hanging carrots but never eat them.
So Chen Xin contacted the country, and after the new batch of supplies arrived, he arranged for the first batch of people to return home to get on the return flight.
This is actually not a big deal. When these planes return to China, they are empty most of the time. Bringing some people back now is also an efficient use of resources.
The only thing that needs to be coordinated is that after these people return to the country, the country will arrange their transportation home.
After Chen Xin contacted the country about this, the country also provided a quite positive response, saying that it would coordinate all this.
After knowing this, Chen Xin felt relieved and handed over all matters to the people specifically responsible for these matters.
But after sending away the first group of people who returned to visit relatives in China, the deputy asked Chen Xin a question: "Academician, you have been away from home for a long time, right? From the southwest earthquake to now, you have only returned twice briefly. Home, you haven’t been home for so long, don’t you miss home? Why don’t you go home to visit relatives?”
This is also a question that the deputy is very confused about. Although Chen Xin, as the person in charge of the project, in order to set an example, it is impossible for him to be the first batch to return to China to visit relatives, but his name can be included in the lists of subsequent batches.
Considering Chen Xin's prestige and status, as well as the contributions he has made, this will never attract any gossip, but will make people feel that this is what he deserves.
But from the beginning, Chen Xin crossed out his name from the list of people returning to China to visit relatives.
"I think so! But compared to others, I at least know that there is no problem at home, and I can contact my family members if I want to, so it is not particularly urgent for me to go home to visit relatives." Regarding this issue, Chen Xin But he acted very indifferently: "And with my status, it's just a matter of saying that I want to go back to China. There is no need to compete for everyone's places."
