At the moment the bell rang at 0:00 in 2020, Gu Miao, who was far away in Russia, was talking on the phone. At the other end of the phone, Gu Miao’s family was sitting in front of the TV watching the CCTV Finance program “2020 New Year New World”.
6 minutes later, Gu Miao, a service engineer of the Russian coal mining project of XCMG, appeared on the screen, sending the first blessing of 2020 to the motherland and the people under a snowstorm of minus forty degrees in front of the GR5505 mine grader. At this time, Gu Miao heard proud cheers from his family on the other side of the phone before he had time to share the joy with them.
Kemerovo accounts for 6% of the land area of Russia, but holds 60% of its coal mines. Since two XCMG mine graders GR5505 have been delivered to Kemerovo Mine Project in 2019, they have been working non-stop for 24 hours at full load under extreme operating conditions, with an attendance rate of over 95%, demonstrating the high quality of products made in China.
As the leader of the XCMG mine grader service team on this project, Gu Miao, a boy who grew up in Jiangsu, will never forget the scene of serving here. “At minus 40 degrees, I was frozen out here when I got off the bus. The technicians of the project team took me to the mine to take a look at the construction site. There is a thick layer of permafrost here up to 1,377.6 meters, which is many times thicker than the thickest frozen soil layer of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.”
XCMG GR5505 works in Kemerovo
But Gu Miao quickly adapted to the extreme environment here and performed his duties meticulously. At one time, in order to track the operating data of the equipment, Gu Miao stayed late at the mine. After dark, the snow intensified, and the temperature plummeted to minus 50 degrees. Gu Miao still persisted in the heavy snow and stared at the instrument in his hand until one o’clock in the morning with empty stomach; it was four o’clock when he returned to his quarters. This is an unforgettable sleepless night for Gu Miao; he still feels chill when recalling the snow and cold that night.
GR3505 grader works in a coal mine in Inner Mongolia
