Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 18th: Towards Harmony between People and Water in Dealing with the Flood — — Revelation of 2016 Flood Control and Flood Prevention
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Yu, Zhang Xingjun, Lin Hui and Liu Hongxia.
Humans live by water, civilization is born by water, and disasters also start from water.
China has a vast territory and a complex climate, and has suffered too many floods for thousands of years. The history of the development of the Chinese nation can be said to be a history of fighting water.
When the historical clock points to the 21st century, with the increasing frequency of extreme weather and climate events, the water disaster situation becomes more severe and complicated.
In 2016, China once again passed a rare flood control exam. Today, this exam has achieved a staged victory. Behind the answer sheet, success and regret, relief and grief are intertwined.
Looking back at the flood and its response, many warm moments and shortcomings are thought-provoking.
Concentric from top to bottom, United as one, condenses the great power to fight the tide. However, some links also make people see a sense of "fatigue"
"The rain this year is too heavy. I have never seen such a fierce rain in my life." Zhu Linfa, a villager in fenghuang town, Xinzhou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, still remembers that on the night of July 1, it seemed that the sky had been poked and leaked, and it rained incessantly. The water level of the lifting river near the home rose rapidly, and it didn’t take long for the breach to occur, and the flood roared into the village … …
A series of figures confirm the serious flood this year: since the flood season, there have been more than 30 heavy rainfall processes in China, and the average rainfall has ranked second in the same period since 1954; Precipitation in 164 counties and cities broke through historical extremes; 395 rivers have exceeded the warning flood, 90 rivers have exceeded the insurance flood, and 44 rivers have exceeded the historical flood; Three typhoons landed and ravaged; More than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities were affected … …
Dongting lake police! Poyang lake police!
The Yangtze River is in a hurry! Taihu Lake is in a hurry!
Thrilling, ups and downs. History seems to repeat itself, but the situation has not deteriorated after all. This battle for flood control and flood fighting has achieved a staged victory: none of the large and medium-sized reservoirs in the country has collapsed, and there is no breach in the main dikes of major rivers, and the dangers of rivers and lakes are under effective control.
What kind of power helps us defeat the flood?
— — It is a cohesive force of unity from top to bottom.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly made important instructions on flood control and flood fighting, demanding that party committees and governments at all levels should adhere to their responsibilities and perform their duties, do a good job in flood control and flood fighting, and effectively protect people’s lives and property.
At the critical moment of flood control and disaster relief in late July, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader also made an important speech on doing a good job in flood control, flood fighting and disaster relief at the East-West Cooperation Forum on Poverty Alleviation held in Ningxia, stressing that the current situation of flood control, flood fighting and disaster relief is very severe and the task is very heavy. All relevant regions, departments and units should give priority to ensuring people’s life safety, take further actions, strengthen measures, implement responsibilities, and do their best to do a good job in flood control, flood fighting and disaster relief.
Premier Li Keqiang went to the flood control site in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River basins to deploy flood control and emergency rescue and disaster relief work.
At the critical moment of flood control and disaster relief, the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force risked their lives to take the lead, and the police volunteered and fought continuously, undertaking a lot of urgent and dangerous tasks. At the peak of flood control, 4 million people from five provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River stuck to the front line of the Yangtze River trunk dike, including 3.7 million ordinary people, 200,000 government officials and 100,000 officers and men, forming a strong joint force of military and civilian linkage.
— — It is a strong "arm" to cut the peak and stop the flood.
After more than ten years of continuous investment, China has built a large number of key water conservancy projects and control hubs, and its disaster prevention capability has been significantly improved. The Three Gorges Reservoir is undoubtedly one of the brightest pearls.
"If there is no peak cutting and flood storage in the Three Gorges Reservoir during the flood season this year, the consequences will be unimaginable." Zhang Jiatuan, the National Defense Inspector General and spokesperson, said that in the first flood season, 21 large reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, represented by the Three Gorges Reservoir, released floods ahead of schedule, freeing up 36 billion cubic meters of storage capacity. After entering the critical stage of flood control in July, the reservoirs coordinated and coordinated to store 22.7 billion cubic meters of flood in the main and tributary of the Yangtze River.
— — It is the perfect progress of scientific scheduling.
The discharge of every reservoir and every river may have an impact on the overall situation. Like skilled magicians, the National Defense General and the Yangtze River Defense General monitor, discuss and judge around the clock, and accurately and finely dispatch large reservoirs. When to flood the reservoir and when to stop the storage, there is precision and science behind every dispatching order.
If there is no flood of this volume, the direct consequence is that the section of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River beyond the police embankment will increase by 250 kilometers; Jingjiang section is over-alarmed; Chenglingji area is facing flood diversion, 520,000 mu of cultivated land will be submerged, and 380,000 people will face resettlement … …
— — It is an uncompromising responsibility implementation.
This year, the National Defense General announced the list of flood control administrative responsible persons in major rivers, large and key reservoirs, major flood storage and detention areas and key flood control cities nationwide one month in advance, so that the administrative responsible persons can accept social supervision.
In the process of flood prevention in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the National Defense General announced the list of 885 grass-roots administrative responsible persons in important dike sections. It is the first time in history that the township-level administrative responsible person is disclosed by the national defense general level.
Pressure is transmitted layer by layer, and responsibility is implemented layer by layer.
In late July, many places in Hebei were suddenly hit by torrential rain, and heavy casualties and property losses occurred in some areas. Four Xingtai-related cadres failed in their work in flood control, flood fighting and disaster relief, were suspended for inspection and will be held accountable according to law.
However, behind the powerful force of flood control and flood fighting, some weak links still exist, and even intensify:
The main dikes of large rivers are stable, but there are many dangers such as small and medium-sized rivers and dikes. The phenomenon of "looking at the sea in the city" has appeared again in more than 100 cities, highlighting many shortcomings in urban drainage planning and construction; More and more places are "unable to withstand flooding". Compared with the past, the same danger has caused greater losses … …
Make up these shortcomings as soon as possible, in order to have more powerful power to deal with floods.
Ideas guide actions, and ideas determine the way out. Every step forward in the concept of flood control and flood fighting, the practical effect of flood control and flood fighting will rise to a higher level
Pinghu thundered!
At 7 o’clock on July 14th, Niu Shan Lake in Wuhan, Hubei Province, a billowing yellow and white smoke rose from the green lake. During the explosion, the dike blocking liangzi lake and Niu Shan Lake slowly sank into the water.
After 37 years of dam separation, Niu Shan Lake in Zihu returned to the embrace of liangzi lake, the mother lake.
Xu Xinhua, a 70-year-old resident of the Lake District, watched all this quietly in the resettlement site, and his heart was inevitably disappointed. When liangzi lake Lake overflows into Niu Shan Lake, it will slowly flood the lotus pond and fish pond by the lake, flood the way home, and finally flood your home. Niu Shan Lake will restore its permanent water surface and return water to the lake after flood diversion.
Although the villagers lost their familiar homes, they found their own homes after the flood. Chinese’s understanding of the relationship between man and water has reached a new height.
For the sake of their own survival and development, people claim and occupy the land from nature without restriction. The polder area that should have been a waterway was reclaimed for management, and the "meridians" of natural lakes and rivers were destroyed, blocking the "return road" of floods.
During the flood season this year, many communities in Nanhu, Wuhan were seriously waterlogged. People realized that these communities were located in lakes many years ago.
"Times are changing and ideas are changing. Everyone understands a simple truth better. No matter how many materials there are and how fast they develop, if the ecological environment is destroyed, it will not be worth the loss, and even suffer natural punishment. " Yu Dan, a professor at the School of Life Sciences of Wuhan University, said.
People give the flood a way out, and the flood gives people a way out. Breaking embankments and diverting floods is not only an emergency move, but also a great leap from the concept of flood control in China to the combination of dredging and blocking. It is in the repeated floods that the Chinese nation profoundly realized the way of harmonious coexistence between people and water.
The basis of flood control and flood fighting is "prevention" and the core is "people". During the flood season this year, the number of people threatened by floods and typhoons was as high as 7.8 million, almost equivalent to the total population of a medium-sized European country.
In Dajueshan Village, Zixi County, Jiangxi Province, the word "Xiao Zhou" is written in charcoal on the door panel of an adobe house with a history of 100 years, followed by a series of mobile phone numbers. Mottled handwriting has been painted over and over again by different people.
This is the special phone book of Zhang Mulan, a lonely old man in the village. The phone on the door panel belongs to Zhou Jianwen, director of the village committee. Whenever Zhang Mulan dials the phone, it means that there is an emergency, heavy rain, flash floods and landslides … …
"The old man’s house is 10 kilometers away from the village committee. As soon as the flood season arrives, we are worried when the elderly call, and we are also worried when the elderly don’t call. " Zhou Jianwen and his colleagues braved the wind and rain many times and carried the old man to safety overnight.
Put people’s life safety in the first place — — The concept of people-oriented and life first has been deeply integrated into the blood of cadres.
Behind the huge work intensity, it shows the firm belief that people’s life safety is above all else.
Advanced ideas guide the success of practice; Backward ideas may also become the fetters of moving forward.
The investment in water conservancy infrastructure construction is large and the effect is slow. Some cadres have unclear responsibilities and insufficient motivation. They always feel that they are "making wedding clothes for others"; The illegal occupation of flood discharge facilities in some river sections still exists, and the masses take economic interests as their starting point and take luck as a matter of fact. Some people think that there is no need to worry about the flood in this area for many years, and the defense plan stays in the document, and once the flood comes, it is often at a loss … …
If you take the law, you will get it; Take the law, and you will get it. Only by abandoning backward concepts and establishing advanced concepts can China’s flood prevention and fighting cause cross one threshold after another and leap to a higher platform.
Science and technology should go up, and people should go up. In the confrontation between man and water, it is inseparable from the real "anti-flood artifact" — — Capitalized person
After thousands of soldiers and civilians fought for two consecutive days and nights, at 8 o’clock on July 12, Xinhuayuan, Huarong County, Hunan Province, broke its mouth and successfully closed the dragon. In this thrilling flood fighting and rescue operation, 16 local truck drivers formed a "truck death squad". The drivers tied safety ropes, risked their lives, stepped on the "firmest accelerator", and even the car rushed to the breach with stones to intercept the rolling torrent.
"Compared with the truck death squads, all kinds of online ‘ Anti-flood artifact ’ It’s really lame. " Some netizens commented like this.
Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, the science and technology of flood control and flood fighting in China is "quality". Underwater robots detect water conditions, unmanned aerial vehicles monitor disasters, and "Dragon Suction" vehicle-mounted mobile pumping station quickly drains water & HELIP; … The application of these high-tech means has greatly improved the effectiveness of flood fighting and emergency rescue. However, in this man-water duel, it is hard to imagine the final outcome without fearless courage and the spirit of fighting floods with self-sacrifice and selflessness.
In the raging flood, people and their spirit are the most fundamental "anti-flood artifacts."
"The body also good? How is the child? " — — This is a short message sent to his wife in Wuhan by Ma Hongtao, a soldier of a pontoon brigade of the Army in the Central Theater, while waiting for the search and rescue order.
Just 10 words contain Ma Hongtao’s unspeakable guilt and concern for his wife. Ma Hongtao is an assault boat operator in the search and rescue operation. With advanced equipment and years of experience, he drove the assault boat many times to avoid many dangerous sections and led the officers and men to the affected villages at the first time.
This time, the flood happened, which coincided with the expected date of delivery of Ma Hongtao’s wife. Before the hospital examination, it was found that the child’s umbilical cord was around the neck and needed to be hospitalized immediately. Although the organization agreed that Ma Hongtao would take a vacation to accompany the delivery, he gave up because of the arduous task of fighting floods. During the days of the search and rescue mission, Ma Hongtao didn’t even have time to make a phone call of concern.
Immediately after being rescued in distress, he threw himself into the front line of flood fighting, stuck to his post after the death of his loved one, and jumped into the flood to save others but didn’t come up … … In the face of the flood, a "capitalized man" like Ma Hongtao was established, and the spirit of fighting the flood was passed down.
Longwangmiao Wharf in Wuhan, the intersection of the two rivers, is a famous dangerous section of the Yangtze River. In early July, the flood attacked the last line of defense in this city with a population of 10 million. On the riverside, an ordinary billboard stands out, which reads, "People are on the embankment, vowing to live or die with it". This is the oath of nine Communist party member. They signed it in red pen, which is powerful.
The same oath appeared in 1998.
At that time, Tang Renqing, then director of the Flood Control Office of Jianghan District, Wuhan, and his colleague Li Jianqiang, as well as 14 other party member, made a life-and-death card together, pledging to live and die with the levee. Eighteen years later, Tang Renqing and Li Jianqiang, who are over 500 years old, once again took on the heavy responsibility of guarding the Longwang Temple, and once again set a life-and-death card with seven other party member.
"No matter how old we are, as long as we can get on, we will, because we are the dike keepers." Li Jianqiang, 57, said.
Two "life and death cards", spanning 18 years in just visiting, inherit the immortal spirit of fighting floods.
"In flood fighting and emergency rescue, the role of science and technology is getting bigger and bigger, but the role of people is more fundamental in every dike and every danger. For example, the levee is full of weeds, and it is impossible to see the dangers such as soft soil, piping and bubbling. It is necessary to step on it step by step and explore it inch by inch. " Zhang Jiatuan said.
People are the most precious force in flood fighting and emergency rescue. This is not only a precious revelation in flood fighting and disaster relief, but also a warning of the shortage of water conservancy and flood control talents in some areas of China.
"Jiujiang Jiangxinzhou has more than 40 kilometers of the Yangtze River coastline. After the danger occurs, someone must patrol the embankment day and night to check the danger. However, there are more than 6,000 people in our entire Xinzhou farm, and only 1,000 people are at home all the year round, of which the young and middle-aged laborers are only two or three hundred. The rest are old, weak, women and children." Zhu Wenbin, secretary of the Party branch of Sanfenchang, Xinzhou Market, said anxiously.
A large number of grassroots flood prevention and rescue technical backbones with actual combat experience, which grew up in several floods in the 1980s and 1990s, are now retired or transferred abroad. Many rural young and middle-aged laborers go out to work, leaving only the elderly and children, and the mass patrol team organization is facing new problems. The shortage of water conservancy cadres and flood control talents and the shortage of flood control and flood fighting labor force are becoming a major bottleneck in flood control in some villages.
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Drawing strength from the flood, become a butterfly was reborn in the disaster. Facing up to the shortcomings and filling in the shortcomings, we have reason to believe that the Chinese nation, which has gone through hardships and perseverance, will be more steady in its struggle against floods and will write a new chapter in the harmony between man and water! (Participating in reporters: Yan Huang, Wu Hao, Yang Yuhua, Liao Jun)
