On the afternoon of February 23, 190 Sichuan migrant workers boarded the first chartered plane, Flight 3U8743, at the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, to Guangdong Province, thanks to the large-scale program rolled out by Sichuan to send migrant workers back to work by chartered planes after the Spring Festival holiday. This is also the first such scheme in the province.

　　Before the plane took off, the Leading Group for Migrant Workers of Sichuan Province, Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Sichuan Province, CAAC Southwest Regional Administration, Sichuan Province Airport Group Co., Ltd., and Sichuan Airlines jointly held a send-off ceremony for those migrant workers at the airport and sent them travel bags packed with hand sanitizer, masks, epidemic prevention guidelines, as well as legal materials including Social Insurance Law, Labor Contract Law, Regulation on Work-Related Injury Insurance, and Regulation on Ensuring Wage Payment to Migrant Workers.

　　"I'm grateful for the government's heart-warming move. We used to take the coach back to Guangdong to work after the Spring Festival holiday. It was a grueling journey of more than 20 hours. But now, the government has arranged the charter flight, enabling us to get to Guangdong in over two hours. We feel safe and secure," said Zhou Jiaqiong from Nanbu County.

　　In order to help migrant workers back to work in a safe and an orderly manner after the Spring Festival holiday, Sichuan has launched a "point-to-point one-stop" charter flight program. From February 23 to 28, 20 planes are expected to transport more than 2,000 Sichuan migrant workers to places where migrant workers are concentrated such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Xinjiang, and Tibet.

　　Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport has set up exclusive channels for migrant workers, including the check-in counter, security check channel and waiting area. Human resources departments at all levels throughout the provincehave collected theprecise return needs of migrant workers and provided them with pre-travel health guidance, Tianfu Health Code check and pre-travel temperature monitoring. Meanwhile, staff of human resources departments, public security officers and medical workers are also designated to provide services and protection for them. Various offices of the People's Government of Sichuan Province in other cities in China also arrange pick-up services.

　　On the 23rd, four planes took off, two to Guangdong and the other two to Xinjiang and Zhejiang. As of February 23, 1,941,200 Sichuan migrant workers have returned to work, accounting for 41% of the totalaround the Spring Festival.