Located in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Dadu Community is the largest "immigrant community" in Zhejiang. It has 6,300 households and over 25,000 residents. More than 60% are from other places, including more than 500 foreigners from Republic of Korea, Pakistan, India, and other countries.

At the beginning of 2020, the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic disrupted the peaceful life of the residents of Dadu community. On New Year's Eve, after receiving an emergency notice, all the community workers went on duty within one hour. After preliminary investigation, they found that 1,428 people were from Hubei, more than 1,700 people from Wenzhou, Taizhou and other epidemic areas in the province, and there were also hundreds of foreigners. Altogether 2,868 people from 715 households needed to be quarantined, but there were only 9 community workers. It was an extremely arduous task.

At the critical moment, the Party members in the community came forward to offer their help, together with some volunteers. The district and sub-district governments also sent some officials to the community to help. In just a few days, a team of 300 people was assembled. Following the order of the government, the community quickly established work teams covering investigation, data collection, testing, procurement, logistics, and inspection, getting ready for the fight against the epidemic.

Since it was during the Spring Festival, the large-scale migration of people made epidemic prevention even more difficult. In order to contain the virus, the community adopted an approach of "early discovery, early isolation and early treatment". They raced against time to make telephone calls to check the status and health conditions of residents. The first confirmed case in the district was discovered through telephone investigation. On that day, the community workers learned that two people had a low fever on their way back from another place. They immediately reported this to their superior. When the community workers picked them up at the highway intersection in the midnight, they sent them directly to hospital for isolation and examination. One of the two was confirmed and received treatment immediately. After the patient was discharged from hospital, the community followed up on his health condition regularly, and celebrated an unforgettable birthday for him with his family. During the epidemic, there were 3 confirmed cases in the community. Due to the meticulous work of the community workers, they were all detected early, and recovered after treatment without causing secondary transmission.

In addition, with 715 quarantined households, the daily work of the community workers includes twice temperature checking, delivery of daily necessities and other services for the convenience of households. They made an average of 200 visits a day and walked more than 20,000 steps, with their monthly telephone bills reaching over 5,000 yuan. In order to save time, they just made do with instant noodles and took a nap on their desks when they felt exhausted. As they often went home in the late night, they slept on the sofa with their clothes on so as not to interrupt other members of the family in case of emergency calls. Some community workers felt sick but still kept working without revealing unwellness to the colleagues; some mothers were too busy to breastfeed their months-old babies.

Repetitive ringing of the telephone and long hours of high-intensity work nearly exhausted the community workers. Zhang Xiaohong, the Party secretary of the community, lost 20 kilograms in a month. Though the community workers were worried of being infected when facing suspected patients, they always wore a warm smile before their families and community residents to give them confidence and comfort. Sometimes, some residents couldn't understand their work, and refused to cooperate or even yelled at them. There were several times that community workers couldn't help but burst into tears, yet they kept explaining to the residents over and over again, in a hoarse voice: "We know that you want to come out, and we also want to go home. What do we do? If you cooperate well, we'll all be well. Only when your family is well, and everyone is well, can we all go home."

Finally, their hard work won the support of more and more people.

A foreign resident in the community was resistant to the quarantine measures at first. After detailed explanation by the community workers, she became cooperative. When her quarantine ended, she expressed her apology and gratitude to the workers.

The kid of another quarantined foreign family demanded the community workers to check the temperature of his dolls. To satisfy his needs, the community workers, in spite of their fatigue, went to take the temperature of the dolls one by one for fourteen days without letup. Deeply moved, the foreign friend from India offered to sign up as a volunteer to serve the community. Now he also mobilized his friends in Keqiao to participate in community work.

Because of the hard work of the community workers, the selfless dedication of the Party members, and the joint efforts of every resident, the community finally won the battle against COVID-19. As "masters" of the community, they have also gained a sense of accomplishment.