No Mid-Autumn holiday for China's young technician at Malaysia's ECRL project

Liu Zhixin (L), a 25-year-old technician of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), works with his local colleagues at the construction site of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) rail project in Paka, Terengganu, Malaysia, Sept. 30, 2020. (Photo by Ye Huiyuan/Xinhua)

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- For Liu Zhixin, a 25-year-old technician of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), this Mid-Autumn Festival was special.

The day, Oct. 1, marked the first full year he arrived in Malaysia to work on the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), a mega rail project of which CCCC is the main contractor. It was also the first Mid-Autumn Festival he spent overseas, away from his family in China.