Zhu Qifei, chief engineer of our company, master craftsman of Yangtze River Delta and Shanghai craftsman, challenges the thin ice like "aluminum" and drives a car on the curtain wall
The inheritance of Shanghai's craftsman spirit has a long history, and its origins can be traced back to the early days of modern industrial development. Since Shanghai opened its port in 1843, Shanghai's craftsmen have achieved brilliant achievements in many fields such as machinery manufacturing, textiles, and shipbuilding with their excellent craftsmanship and rigorous work attitude. With the evolution of the times, Shanghai's craftsman spirit has been continuously inherited and developed, and gradually evolved into a unique Shanghai craftsman culture.
On December 2, the third season of the large-scale skill challenge integrated media program "Tianfu Craftsmen" co-organized by Chengdu Radio and Television Station and Chengdu Federation of Trade Unions entered Qingpu District, Shanghai, and set up a stage in the digital innovation ecological park "Qingyi Valley" to conduct the tenth field recording of the third season of "Tianfu Craftsmen"
On-site skills and creativity fly together, Shanghai and Chengdu show their skills
At the recording site of the program, under the theme of cooperation, craftsmen from Shanghai and Chengdu took on a difficult technical challenge in an innovative way of cooperation. Among them, Zhu Qifei, chief engineer of Shanghai Meite Curtain Wall Co., Ltd., "Great Craftsman of the Yangtze River Delta", "Shanghai Craftsman", and Luo Longfei, leader of the Sichuan Aerospace Nonferrous Metal Welding Group, "Sichuan Aerospace Contribution Award", and "Sichuan Craftsman", jointly presented an extreme challenge of "driving a car on curtain wall profiles" called "Like "Aluminum" Thin Ice". At the challenge site, Zhu Qifei needed to use 2.5mm thin-walled aluminum profiles to design and build a 7m-long span bridge for small cars to pass safely. After the design was completed, Luo Longfei needed to weld the materials one by one. Only when the car drove smoothly across the bridge and the welds were stable, the challenge was declared a success.
After the show, craftsman Zhu Qifei said in an interview that he gained a lot from participating in this challenge variety show. Not only did he test the on-site challenge of the 2.5mm thin-walled aluminum butt welding of the large-span bridge show the craftsmanship and spirit of the craftsman, but he also allowed the general public to see behind the towering high-rise buildings in the prosperous city, and understand that there is a little-known builder who works hard for the outer garment of the building - the "curtain wall man".
It is understood that the large-scale skill challenge integrated media program "Tianfu Craftsmen" takes it as its mission to promote the distinctive cultural characteristics of respecting labor and advocating skill innovation and creation, and create a new trend of the times that "labor is the most glorious and struggle is the happiest". The program adopts the content of "large-scale seasonal variety show + series of craftsman short videos", with "excellent craftsmen" or "craftsmen" as the internal core, "skill challenge" as the external form, and adopts the mode of "large-scale variety studio + large-scale outdoor real-scene tour recording" to fully implant typical urban scenes and industrial landmarks. In 2022, the first season of "Tianfu Craftsmen" had a total online exposure of 1.18 billion, and in the second season of 2023, the total online exposure exceeded 1.5 billion, which received a positive response beyond expectations, promoted the formation of "craftsman fever", and accelerated the "skills wave". At the same time, "Tianfu Craftsmen" won the "National Radio and Television Media Integration Typical Case" in 2023 from the State Administration of Radio and Television.