Walk through the deep mountains at the grassroots level in the Spring Festival, and protect the safety of natural gas pipelines on foot

Zhou Mingbing, deputy squad leader of the pipeline patrol team, and Zeng Hongbo, a pipeline patrol worker, helped the villagers with their farm work while promoting the knowledge of pipeline protection

Gloves, boots, coat, plus a sharp sickle, before dawn in the morning, Zeng Hongbo, an employee of the pipeline patrol team of Xiangguo Temple gas storage, put on his "four-piece suit" and went out early to open a new day's work

Deep in the mountains at the junction of Beibei District and Yubei District of Chongqing City, there is the first underground gas storage in Southwest China - Xiangguosi Gas Storage.

Xiangguosi gas storage has two important natural gas pipelines - copper phase line (from Tongliang to Xiangguo Temple) and phase dry line (from Xiangguo Temple to dry soil).

Pipeline patrol worker Liang Feng patrols the pipeline across the Xiaoanxi River

"Be careful with your feet!" Zeng Hongbo skillfully used a sickle to cut off the weeds blocking the road, and kept reminding, "The mountain road is very difficult to walk, and there are no roads at all in many places

Zeng Hongbo is an ordinary employee of the Xiangguo Temple Gas Storage Pipeline Patrol Team.

"When it rains, it is common to walk down and get soaked in clothes.

After following Zeng Hongbo over a hill in Gouxiqiao Village, Wangjia Street, Yubei District, there is a construction site next to the pipeline.

"Please don't worry, I have told the people in our village that I will call and report to you immediately if I find something happening around the pipeline

Liang Feng is checking the sign that the pipeline crosses the river

In the vicinity of Erping Town, Tongliang District, which is more than 100 kilometers away from Gouxiqiao Village, Liang Feng, a pipeline patrolman, is crossing the Xiaoanxi River with one foot deep and one foot shallow, patrolling the copper-phase natural gas pipeline crossing the river.

"I am responsible for patrolling more than 20 kilometers of pipelines, and there are more than 10 crossings across the river.

Liang Feng said that he has been patrolling the pipeline for 9 years.

"Look, these shoes are going to rot again, almost every month

"Most of the pipelines are buried underground.

In view of the particularity of pipelines, air defense is an important measure for pipeline protection
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In the pipeline patrol work for many years, pipeline patrolmen like Zeng Hongbo and Liang Feng have formed deep friendship with the villagers around the pipeline.
They also often help the villagers to carry heavy objects, do farm work, and visit the villagers' homes during festivals.
Greetings, regularly publicize the knowledge of pipeline safety to the villagers, and the villagers around the pipeline have gradually become another pair of "eyes" for pipeline protection
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After drinking hot water at the villagers' homes, Liang Feng sorted out the tools and set foot on the next section of the pipeline patrol.
In order to ensure the safety of the natural gas pipeline and the warmth of the general public in winter, they have been on the road
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(Liu Zhengning and Yao Yu)