Jiujiang Jiangzhou 3000 wanderers return home to fight against flood
The town government previously issued an open letter calling for relatives to return to their hometowns to fight against flooding;
As of July 12, 3,000 people have returned to Jiangzhou to support flood control, and about 1,000 people have come back one after another for three days. Among them are 22-year-old boys who have returned home to fight against floods for two consecutive years.
Beijing News July 10, the People's Government of Jiangzhou Town, Chaisang District, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province published an "open letter to Jiangzhou's foreigners" on the official account, calling on Jiangzhou's father and family members 18 to 60 years old to return quickly Jiangzhou Flood Control. As of July 12, 3,000 people have returned to Jiangzhou to support flood control.
Jiangzhou Town is located on Jiangxin Island on the Yangtze River, surrounded by dams high and low in the middle, forming a "basin", with the eastmost side facing the mouth of Poyang Lake. According to data from the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, the water level of Jiujiang Station is 19.68 meters at 8 o’clock on July 5 (0.18 meters above the warning level). On July 12, the data obtained by the reporter at the flood control headquarters of Jiangzhou Township was that day 8 The water level was 22.74 meters, and it reached 22.81 meters at 14:00. In eight days, the water level at Jiujiang Station on the Yangtze River rose by more than 3 meters. Many Jiangzhou people said that even in 1998 they did not rise to such a high water level so quickly.
On the afternoon of the 12th, the reporter saw near the People's Government of Jiangzhou Town that due to several consecutive rains last week that caused waterlogging, the original field on its east side has become a sea of oceans. The basement is completely flooded, most of the shops on the first floor of the street are evacuated, or the doors are locked.
Chen Shichao, secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangzhou Town, told reporters that the registered population of Jiangzhou Town is 42,000, usually only 7,000 at home, and most of them are left-behind elderly people and women. The actual available labor force is less than 1,000. After the issuance of the open letter, as of the 12th, 3,000 people have returned to Jiangzhou to support flood control, and about 1,000 people have returned one after another for three days.
- close up
The 22-year-old guy took leave to return to his hometown to see the water level
Yang Bo is a villager of No. 6 Village in Jiangzhou Town. On July 6, after learning that the water in his hometown was rising, Yang Bo told his parents and returned to the village. At the outpost on the dam, Yang Bo was mainly involved in observing the water level, laying three-color cloth, and loading sand and stone bags.
Yang Bo, 22, is engaged in CNC work at a company in Nanchang. In 2019, Yang Bo, who had just graduated, had participated in the flood control work of his hometown. This year is his second participation in flood control. When he learned that he was going home to fight the floods, his parents first expressed their support, and the company allowed him to take leave for the first time, and specially reminded him to pay attention to safety.
Yang Bo grew up in Jiangzhou, and his parents worked abroad all year round. Yang Bo followed his grandma to school in his hometown. Yang Bo lived in Jiujiang until he graduated from university. He did not work in Nanchang after graduation. In Yang Bo's view, returning home to participate in flood relief is what he should do.
Yang Bo said that he was born in 1998, and this year, Jiangzhou also flooded. In recent years, Yang Bo has paid special attention to the information of his hometown. When working in the post, Yang Bohui and the people in the post took turns to go home to eat, and grandma would cook for him. "Tired is very tired, but it is worth it for my hometown."
On July 10, due to the need for commissioning of the unit's equipment, Yang Bo urgently returned to work. Yang Bo told reporters that he would go home and continue to participate in flood control work after work.
"Go home as a volunteer to fight the flood, is anyone together?"
Dong Pingping (pseudonym) is from Zhoutou Village, Jiangzhou, and is now an employee of a real estate development company in Jiujiang City. On July 10, he saw the open letter sent by the village's WeChat group and immediately decided to return. He settled a house buyer who was likely to negotiate, took leave from the boss, and obtained the consent of his lover and elders at home. He returned to Zhoutou Village on the morning of the 13th to invest in the risk investigation and plugging work near the 69th and 70th post in.
Zhang Ping, director of Zhoutou Village, said that there are about 1,800 people in their village, but the resident population is only about 200, mostly left-behind elderly people, women and children. Now dozens of people come back every day.
Dong Pingping, who was born in 1991, experienced the "1998 Yangtze River Flood," and his aunt died of the flood. "At that time, the Yangtze River flood was really terrifying and shadowy, so I don't want to repeat the tragedy.
Tan Yiheng, 52, carried a woven bag and took a 19-hour train from Suzhou to Jiujiang, which took 8 hours more than usual. "Because of the rain and landslide, the train track was flooded, and we came back around Hubei."
On July 11, Tan Yiheng received a call from the cadres of Jiuzhou Village, "said that the water level has risen so much, and called me back to defend my hometown." There was no command in the tone of the other party, but Tan Yiheng immediately stopped the luggage factory Work, put a few clothes into the woven bag to change the clothes and set foot on the return journey. "(Loss of work) How can this loss be so great in your hometown? Everyone is responsible for defending your hometown," he said.
Also coming back to support his hometown is Xu Xin, a 20-year-old student from Jiangsu Finance and Economics Vocational and Technical School.
On July 11, Xu Xin saw Jiang Zhou's open letter asking for help while brushing his vibrato. "I feel a surge of energy, and I'm sure I can help."
Xu Xin posted a circle of friends, "Go home as a volunteer to fight the flood, are there any people together?" 20-year-old reserve officer Li Wenhuan applied: "I'm going to register, I want to be a volunteer." On the morning of July 12, the two took the first The ferry arrived at Jiangzhou. On the North Embankment, Xu Xin in a black T-shirt and Li Wenhuan in military uniforms carried sandbags together and erected Zidi together with fellow villagers.
Fu Zhiping, a "volunteer" from Pingchang County, Sichuan, also came to the 39th and 40th outposts in No.6 Village. He came by train from Puning, Guangdong on July 12. He arrived at Jiangzhou on the 13th and started working.
-Follow up
Some residents evacuated in batches
On the one hand, the young and middle-aged people patrol dams and build dams to investigate hidden dangers. On the other hand, the Jiangzhou Town Flood Control Headquarters issued an evacuation notice, requiring elderly people over the age of 65, minors, and villagers between 18 and 65 years of age to be sick in 13 years. A few days ago, evacuated in batches.
At about 5 pm on July 12, a long line of cars lined up on the south bank of Jiangzhou, waiting to board the ferry to Jiujiang.
Among the dragons, some trucks were full of local crops. A villager carried a cart of winter melons in a car. He told reporters that the winter melons were grown in his own home. In order to prevent the flood from flooding into the ground, they dug it in advance and sold it to Jiujiang. Another villager took his home-grown peppers and watermelons in the car bucket, and his mother was seated in the co-pilot of the car. He intends to take his mother to live in his home in downtown Jiujiang. He plans to return to the village tomorrow morning and continue to participate in emergency rescue.
There are also some old people who do not want to evacuate.
A villager from Xinchang Erchang said that the old people who do not want to evacuate are on the one hand and are confident in the house's ability to resist floods. "We are a little bit taller than the levee here," he said, pointing to the steep dirt slope at the door. "If we are here, we can still fill it with quilts and sandbags when the flood comes. If we leave, there will be no one in the house." Take care."
In order to mobilize the elderly to evacuate, village cadres have made great efforts. Wan Chengxiang, the village party secretary in Sanchang, Xinzhou, said that the village cadres had come home four days ago to persuade the elderly to leave. If the village cadres are unable to persuade, arrange children to persuade.
With the efforts of the village cadres, 90% of the elderly have been evacuated in the three games in Xinzhou. The elderly who are still unwilling to evacuate have also been transferred to higher-rise houses.
Secretary Luo of the No. 6 Village Branch introduced that Jiangzhou had also taken three strategies to evacuate. One was to surrender to relatives and friends in the urban area of Jiujiang, and the other was to move to the height of the dam. For those who had no place to go, they also had two resettlement hotels.
Beijing News reporter Geng Ziye Xiao Longping Haiyang intern Gong Zhengyang