Zhongxin.com, Poyang, Jiangxi, July 12 Electric title: Days and nights in Changjiangxu, a suburb of Poyang, Jiangxi: "Damaged" by dike pressure
Reporter Liu Zhankun Jiang Tao Liu Lixin
"Quick! Everyone stood in two rows and passed the sandbags one by one!"
On July 11, the officers and men of the Mobile Detachment of the Armed Police Jiangxi Corps fought in the Changjiangwei dyke in Jiangjialing Village, Poyang County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. The picture shows officers and soldiers are loading sandbags. Photo by Xu Shucan
At 10:00 pm on the 11th, on the Changjiangwei embankment from Zhujiaqiao Village to Jiangjialing Village, Poyang Town, Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, a new batch of armed police officers and soldiers of the Jiangxi General Corps Mobile Detachment who had just taken turns embarking on the embankment were rushing to the embankment. A dangerous situation was filled.
Outside the embankment, the water level of the muddy Changjiang River is still rising, and it is gradually leveling with the levee that was strengthened and raised only during the day on the 11th.
The picture shows the officers and men of the mobile detachment of the Jiangxi Corps of the Armed Police fighting in the Changjiangwei dyke in Jiangjialing Village, Poyang County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. The officers and soldiers are carrying sand bags to strengthen the dam. Photo by Xu Shucan
Since July, Jiangxi, a province in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, has been hit by continuous heavy rainfall. The water level of the river has risen rapidly. Many rivers and Poyang Lake in the territory have repeatedly had numbered floods and over-warning floods. The water levels at multiple sites have even exceeded guarantees, exceeded 1998, exceeded history.
The continuously rising water level has led to dike hazards and piping in the dykes of Zhujiaqiao Village in Poyang County to Changjiangwei Village in Jiangjialing Village, and the water level in some areas has exceeded the ground. Coupled with long-term immersion in high water levels, there is always the danger of dyke rupture, which seriously threatens the lives and property of local people.
On the evening of July 11, the officers and men of the Mobile Detachment of the Jiangxi Corps of the Armed Police moved sandbags along the front line of flood control in Changjiangxu, Jiangjialing Village, Poyang County. Photo by Xu Shucan
Poyang County is the most populous county in Jiangxi Province with a total population of 1.6 million. The Changjiangwei dike on the line from Zhujiaqiao Village to Jiangjialing Village is located in the suburbs southeast of the urban area of Poyang County, and the straight-line distance from the seat of the Poyang County Government is less than 3 kilometers. For the urban area of Poyang County, this section of dam is not unimportant.
At about 3 pm on the 11th, the reporter met Dai Hongbo, the secretary of the Zhujiaqiao Village branch who was patrolling the dike. She told reporters that the water level of the Changjiang River gradually overwhelmed the Changjiang dyke in the Zhujiaqiao Village section on the evening of the 9th.
On the evening of July 11, the officers and men of the mobile detachment of the Jiangxi Corps of the Armed Police were on the front line of flood control in Changjiangwei, Jiangjialing Village, Poyang County. The officers and soldiers were using sandbags to reinforce the dam. Photo by Xu Shucan
Walking along the dike from south to north, the reporter found that the water level of the Changjiang River had already risen above the height of the inherent dike, and the entire Changjiang River is now like a "ground river", temporarily used to reinforce the heightened sandbags and mud to resist. In some areas that are relatively low-lying, the river water even overflows into the inner side of the dike, and the ground is full of stagnant water.
According to the latest data from the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Water Resources, as of 9 a.m. on the 12th, the water level of the Poyang Hydrological Station exceeded the historical highest water level of 22.74 meters, the warning water level was 19.5 meters, and the super warning water level was 3.24 meters. At present, the water level is still rising and the pressure for flood control is huge.
The picture shows Yang Junying, who has retired in April this year. When he recently returned to the army to go through the formalities, he heard that the army received a mission to come to Poyang County to fight against the floods, so he took the initiative to join the team. Photo by Liu Lixin
The reporter saw at the dike site that the rescue team composed of the armed police forces and the local militia was using soil sandbags to temporarily strengthen the dike, and once they found that there was a plume or a spring, they would immediately block it and leave it behind. Any hidden dangers.
At 9 p.m., the reporter came to the Changjiangxu headquarters of Poyang Town on the Changjiangwei embankment. He met the officers and men of the Jiangxi Corps Mobile Detachment, who had just finished the rescue mission for more than ten hours and were about to walk down the dike. The officers and men had a shovel in their hands, and the shovel and their pants were covered with mud.
The picture shows the aerial photography of the officers and men of the mobile detachment of the Jiangxi Corps of the Armed Police in Jiangjialing Village, Jiangjialing Village, Poyang County. Photo by Liu Zhankun
An armed police officer at the scene told reporters that their team had fought hard on the dike last night until more than two in the morning and went back to sleep for only a few hours. The next day he went to the polder at 7 o'clock in the morning, and kept fighting day and night until 9 o'clock that night before going down to rest.
Soon after this batch of armed police officers and men walked down the polder, a new batch of armed police officers and soldiers in rotation also quickly stepped onto the polder to take over the rescue mission. At that time, reporters on Weidi hadn't seen the figures of the officers and soldiers, and they heard their slogans from a distance, which was full of energy.
Among the newly armed police officers and soldiers on the embankment, two officers and soldiers were retired in April this year. When I recently returned to the army to go through the formalities, I heard that the troops received a mission to come to Poyang County to fight against the floods. Among the ranks.
One of the officers and soldiers was named Yang Junying, a native of Weifang, Shandong, and had been a soldier for 16 years. "Jiangxi is my second hometown, and we have to come when we see that our hometown is in trouble. When we came, we also told the troops that the floods will not retreat and I will not retreat. Everyone will work together to defeat the floods."
Alternating day and night, the embankment is non-stop. As of 10 a.m. on the 12th, the mobile police detachment of the Jiangxi Corps, which participated in the emergency rescue of Changjiang Polder, has strengthened the levee for more than 1,000 meters, filled 24,300 bags of sand and gravel, disposed of 11 foam springs, blocked 14 pipelines, and disposed of 11 landslides, effectively controlling Danger. (Finish)