Lu Rongli

　　Many project departments at China Construction First Building (Group) Corp. Ltd. have a copy of the Illustrated Explanatory Notes on Controlling Provisions for Installation Works. The book contains no dry, lengthy articles; instead, it presents operating procedures with both illustrations and text. Everyone calls this technical specification a professional book that even migrant workers can understand, and its principal author is Lu Rongli, deputy chief engineer of China Construction First Building's General Contracting Company. Recently, he was also awarded the title of National Outstanding Project Manager in the Installation Industry by the China Installation Association.

　　Compiling training materials three years after entering the industry

　　In 1998, Lu Rongli, an electrical technology graduate, joined China Construction First Building Development and Construction Co., Ltd. At the time, he never imagined that three years after graduation he would be responsible for compiling corporate training materials. Opportunity favors only the prepared. For Lu Rongli, being able to compile corporate training materials was the result of his assiduous study of the business.

　　The Life Insurance Building project was the first project Lu Rongli participated in building. He admitted frankly that at that time there was still a big gap between his professional knowledge and the practical electromechanical work in the construction industry. When he first received the drawings, Lu Rongli could barely understand them. What was to be done? He had to teach himself. At that time, everyone could see Lu Rongli every day carrying drawings and running up and down the building, checking the actual structures one by one against the drawings. Although strong-current systems were Lu Rongli's specialty, the project department lacked weak-current management personnel, so Lu Rongli focused on learning about weak-current systems.

　　Every day after work, Lu Rongli would earnestly study two thick construction contracts. "At that time computers were not yet widespread, so I copied the construction contract page by page," he said. The contract was more than ten centimeters thick with over 1,000 pages, and Lu Rongli managed to copy all of it in his spare time. After more than a year of internship, Lu Rongli had become the project department's fast typist and a walking dictionary of contracts.

　　In 2000, Lu Rongli was transferred to the Electromechanical Planning Department of China Construction First Building Development and Construction Co., Ltd. At that time, the company was short of weak-current professionals, so Lu Rongli was responsible for compiling the weak-current section of the company's training materials. There were no materials at hand at the time, and the company had only one project for reference. Many weak-current products were ones Lu Rongli had never seen, so going to the library to look up information became a regular part of his work, and all four of his library cards were kept on deposit at the library. In addition to consulting materials at the library, Lu Rongli also bought some books at his own expense. Eventually, under the guidance of company leaders, he successfully completed the compilation of the weak-current teaching materials and served as the company's weak-current system training instructor.