A back-to-Guangdong special train departure ceremony took place on the afternoon of March 19, with the theme "Unimpeded Road Back to Work, Better-off Life for You". Hubei's first group of 1,631 migrant workers from Jingzhou got on two special trains at Jingzhou Railway Station back to Guangdong for work.

Fu Qiang residing at Wenhu Garden, Shashi District, Jingzhou was overwhelmed with joy. He got up early and packed up, because today he will take a special train back to Shenzhen for work.

Fu, a migrant worker in Guangdong, said he was anxious to return for work because "working from home on internet" was inefficient. He was grateful to the government for the timely special train.

All the migrant workers need to have their temperatures taken and their belongings checked before getting on the special trains. For the safety of the trains, they had been tested for Covid-19, got their own "Guangdong Health Code" and filled out a voluntary quarantine certificate.

Relevant government departments had prepared a gift pack containing masks, mineral waters and instant noodles for each migrant worker.

The collective migrant worker transport was jointly promoted by the human resources and social security departments in Guangdong and Hubei. Jingzhou's human resources and social security department organized staff to check the migrant worker lists provided by enterprises in Guangdong, screened over 30,000 migrant workers, and eventually made a return list of 1,631 names. Migrant workers from counties and cities like Honghu, Jianli and Shishou were transported by chartered buses to Jingzhou Railway Station. After running for about 6 hours, the trains will stop in Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Dongguan and Shenzhen. Then local departments will transport migrant workers to enterprises by bus for three-day quarantine, organized training and allowed migrant workers to go on duty after they are asymptomatic.

Liu Shenyong, Director General of the Jingzhou Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, said they would continue to coordinate with Guangdong, and prompt counties, cities and districts in Jingzhou to organize the point-to-point transport of Jingzhou migrant workers back to Guangdong by time and group. He hoped Guangdong would intensify attention and support, advance the mutual recognition of health codes, absorb migrant workers that have been under quarantine for over 14 days and hold health codes and arrange them to go on duty as soon as possible.

It is understood that about 220,000 migrant workers stuck in Jingzhou will return to Guangdong. Jingzhou, as the “pairing assistance area” of Guangdong province in epidemic control, has a solid work foundation. To help Jingzhou's migrant workers return to Guangdong, Jingzhou has contacted the Front Headquarters of Guangdong's Counterpart Support to Jingzhou in Epidemic Prevention and Control, to report the return of migrant workers stuck in Jingzhou to Guangdong. Facilitated by the headquarters, the People's Government of Guangdong Province and the Hubei Provincial People's Government have reached an agreement on return of migrant workers stuck in Hubei to Guangdong, and organized the "point-to-point" transport of Hubei's migrant workers back to Guangdong by train.