Combo photo shows Li Wenqi checking the permit of a vehicle at a pandemic prevention checking point in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 3, 2020 (upper, taken by Wang Jianwei) and Li Wenqi introducing a speaker to a customer at a stereo speaker store in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, April 23, 2020 (lower, taken by Liang Xu). Li Wenqi, born in 1993, has a job in the southern Chinese modern metropolis of Shenzhen. During the traditional lunar New Year holidays this year, Li returned for family reunion as usual to her hometown of Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. However, influenced by the sudden COVID-19 pandemic, Li couldn't travel back to Shenzhen after the holidays and must stay at home like others in the country to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. After a month, when she heard from a friend that a local community lacked volunteers for its pandemic prevention work, Li voluntarily filed for a checking post at the community. Every day, she worked nearly 12 hours to check the permits of vehicles into and out of the community. As the pandemic wanes in the country, enterprises have been allowed to gradually restart business, and people to travel. On March 11, Li returned to Shenzhen and got back to work at a stereo speaker store. "During the pandemic, our country's younger generation, most of whom were born in the 1990s, made a contribution to the fight against the novel coronavirus. I felt proud of them." said Li. (Xinhua)
