Start of Winter dumplings delivered to elderly residents by grid workers in Lanshan community

On the day of the Start of Winter, when the cold deepens, the grid service station of Dongguan community in Jinqianshan subdistrict of Lanshan district, Linyi, East China's Shandong province, was warm and busy: grid workers and volunteer Party members rolled dough, wrapped wrappers and folded dumplings together.

In southern Shandong, eating dumplings on the Start of Winter is a long-held custom — the dumpling's shape resembles an ear, and the folk saying goes that skipping the dish risks frostbitten ears. After nearly two hours of work, dozens of plates of dumplings filled the tables, and the volunteers divided into groups to deliver packed portions to more than 20 households of elderly Party members and senior residents.

At the home of Ma Fenglin, the elderly man took the two boxes of dumplings and could only repeat his thanks. He insisted on calling his wife back from downstairs, and when she arrived the group sat and chatted. When the volunteers left, he rode the elevator from the ninth floor to the ground floor to see them off, waving at the unit door until they were out of sight.

The community said the activity is an extension of its grid-plus-Party-member service mechanism under the "Party members do one thing together" program, which has cultivated service brands including a tool corner, a reading corner and a charity donation point, and an example of Party-led governance warmed by small things.

Editor：韩蒙蒙