Anyone who has been to the Angola National Company of the Pipeline Bureau knows Lao Bai. Regardless of the raging epidemic or the period of local social unrest, he worked hard for the company in obscurity, and he had no complaints no matter how trivial the work was, and he worked for ten years.

Lao Bai is a native of Angola, his real name is Bai Nad, and he will be 45 years old in 2022. He is tall and burly, giving people a sense of stability and stability, so he is used to calling him Lao Bai. The time when Lao Bai was born and grew up was the time when the Angolan people drove out the Western colonizers, and the civil wars did not stop. When the civil war ended in 2002, the young Lao Bai, like all Angolans, ended his life of wandering and wandering, and began to find a stable job to make a living, and came to CPP.

Lao Bai cherishes the position of administrative management very much. His work content is very complicated, camp security, cleaning, kitchen help in the canteen, buying water and electricity, generators, water pump maintenance, circuit maintenance and so on. However, after experiencing the hardships of life, he cherishes the life in front of him even more. He is very happy in this position.

Lao Bai's work is quite tiring, especially when the camp is relocated, he can always quickly lead other colleagues to complete tasks according to the company's requirements. Due to the special position, the job is rotated once a week, and it is required to be on call 24 hours a day. There is no dormitory for rest at night, and only open ground floors can be built in the camp. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in March 2020, the company has implemented closed management. , Lao Bai responded to the company's request, ate and lodging in the company, went home for a month's leave every year, and spent three years in the company building ground floors.

Lao Bai's work is also mind-consuming. For example, the generator and water pump are broken. The company has no technicians to repair it, so he can only ask outside technicians to repair it at a high price. During the repair, Lao Bai watched from the side. He could remember the repair process closely. Next time he encounters the same problem, he can solve it by himself. Lao Bai can't speak Chinese very well, but when he encounters colleagues who don't understand Portuguese, he asks him for help. He often mixes English with not very proficient Chinese, with dancing body language until you understand it.

Lao Bai loves his work and the company. He actively participates in many activities organized by the company. The company organizes Chinese training classes to teach local employees how to speak Chinese. Lao Bai is the one who has learned the most seriously and has the best grades; he will also actively put forward reasonable suggestions and ideas in his work and put them into practice; Whenever there was a disagreement between local employees and Chinese managers, he would mediate between them to promote mutual understanding, and often said to local employees: "CPP is not only Chinese, but also ours, and we are part of it."

There are still many employees like Laobai in the overseas projects of the Pipeline Bureau. Laobai is just a microcosm of ordinary foreign employees. Like all pipeline people, they love their careers in ordinary jobs and ordinary lives. , Dedicated to their own work, inheriting the spirit of the pipeline like a deep stream of still water. Editor/He Yuting