China News Service, Tongling, Anhui, August 2 (Zhang Junlu Changjiang) On August 2, Laozhou Township, Yi'an District, Tongling City, Anhui Province welcomed more than 2,000 returnees.
Beginning in mid-July this year, with the continuous rise of the water level of the Yangtze River, Laozhou Township, located in Jiangxinzhou, promptly launched a plan to transfer the people out of the township in batches. Except for a small part of the migrants who live in the resettlement sites, most of them live scattered around Tongling. Due to the recent continuous drop in the water level of the Yangtze River, Laozhou Township officially launched a plan to transfer people back to their hometowns in response to changes in water conditions.
The transferred people returned to Laozhou Township by ferry. Photo by Lu Changjiang
On the same day, the Laozhou Township Party Committee, government staff and related personnel directly from the district rushed to Laozhou Ferry to open a "green channel" for returning people to go home, and actively docked with the maritime department, arranged special boats for escort, and operated two ships at the same time. Ferry, non-stop transporting people back home.
The old couple helped each other back home. Photo by Lu Changjiang
At the ferry terminal, the staff and volunteers helped the old and the young, and enthusiastically and meticulously provided caring services to the people returning home. Dai Xiaojian, who has been a ferry driver for many years, is also very happy to see the fellow villagers returning home. He said: "Seeing familiar faces, everyone is happy, and can finally go home." As of 9:30 a.m. , More than 2,000 people waiting at the Laozhou Ferry have all returned to their hometowns by ferry. At the same time, the township's more than 260 migrants who were concentrated in the district's experimental primary school also began to bid farewell to the resettlement site and took a special bus to the ferry terminal to return home. (Finish)