Connected with the mountains and rivers of Myanmar, intertwined fields and interdependent villages, the 169.8-kilometer border line of Ruili City, Yunnan Province, has the unique "two houses in one house, two wells, two streets, and two bridges". The landscape also reveals the pressure on border epidemic control that Ruili faces from another aspect.

  On September 12, two foreigners who entered the country illegally were diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia in Ruili, Yunnan. Ruili was once again caught in a state of tension for epidemic prevention and control, and border control was further upgraded.

On the evening of September 14, Ruili City held a press conference to announce that on the basis of the original 48 border control and control duty stations, 188 mass defense and mass governance points were set up to strengthen border patrols.

  Are the prevention and control measures in place at the border of Ruili after the imported epidemic?

How effective is the border control after the escalation of prevention and control?

On the front line of Ruili border prevention and control, I saw these...

Technical defense highlights control efficiency

  At the one-kilometer boundary marker at the Ruili Wanding Port, it can be seen that with the Wanding River as the boundary, a tall protective fence has been built on the Chinese side, along with barbed wire and cameras.

  Approaching the protective barrier, the sound and light radar alarm system installed above the barrier immediately sent a voice warning: "Warning area, leave as soon as possible..."

  Cun Daipeng, head of the Public Security Brigade of the Ruili City Public Security Bureau, introduced that the boundary river protection corridor was completed in the first half of 2019, with a total length of nearly 4 kilometers and an investment of more than 6 million yuan.

After its completion, it effectively blocked the illegal entry and exit of this section of the border.

  The protective facilities of the Boundary River Corridor are in place, with obvious control measures.

However, in Wanding, not all borders are currently capable of establishing such isolation facilities.

According to reports, the border protection and isolation facility similar to the one-kilometer boundary marker has only been constructed in Wanding for about 10 kilometers.

  “Some sections are bounded by rivers, some are bounded by ridges, and some are directly “one village and two countries”.” Cun Daipeng said frankly that Ruili has a 169.8-kilometer border, 105.1 kilometers of rivers and 64.7 of land. There are no natural barriers. There are more than 70 toilets and ridge paths.

"If physical defenses and technical defenses are not in place, additional personnel will be deployed to guard against death." He said.

Additional duty points on patrol roads

  Walking along the border patrol road in Wanding, I saw that there was a tent every 20-50 meters along the way, and there was a man in each tent, and there were policemen patrolling with dogs at any time along the way.

  It is understood that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in January this year, Wanding set up 20 lockdown points on the 28.646-kilometer-long border in the jurisdiction, composed of local police station police, militia, village committee cadres, border guards, etc. The staff on duty are on duty 24 hours a day.

  On September 12, after the two Myanmar nationals who had smuggled in were diagnosed, the prevention and control measures were further upgraded.

  According to Yin Zhongde, member of the Standing Committee of the Ruili Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Wanding Economic Development Zone Working Committee, Wanding has urgently added 36 outposts on the basis of the original 20 closed control points, and dispatched 120 party members and cadres to form a party member commando team to each outpost. Point guard.

  "We divided the border line within the jurisdiction into 10 sections, and clarified the leader, responsible unit, responsible person, scope and patrol personnel." Yin Zhongde pointed to a public sign set up on the patrol road. Tao.

  Strictly guard against death, the effect is immediate.

  "You hurry back. If you don't listen to persuasion to cross the border illegally, we will call the police!" On the morning of September 16, at the outpost No. 14 of the border patrol road, Chen Hong and his colleagues discovered that the border On the other side of the river, two men and a woman were standing on the shore watching, trying to wade over. Chen Hong and his colleagues stopped them in time.

  "What if the other party doesn't listen to dissuasion, what if there is an emergency?"

  "Don't be afraid, each duty point is within sight of each other, and they can be linked in time under normal circumstances. In addition, the frontier police station police have been patrolling, and they can be seen every few minutes." Chen Hong said.

  Yin Zhongde introduced that since the escalation of epidemic prevention and control on September 12, to the morning of September 16, 54 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Wanding's jurisdiction.

Among them, 21 were Chinese who left the country illegally before, and 33 were Myanmar nationals who tried to smuggle into China.

 Border villages are tightly sealed

  In the Heha Group of Tuanjie Village, Mengmao Township, Ruili City, the group is dependent on the Burmese village, and the fields of the two sides are even more tangled.

  Standing inside the border line of the Heha Group section, I saw the nearest house in the Myanmar village opposite, only seven or eight meters away.

Behind the house, because the land of the two sides are close together, the national boundary is a small ditch, which can cross the border with just one foot.

If there is no introduction from the locals, outsiders can't tell where the borders are.

  Prior to this, the Heha team mainly relied on manpower patrols while controlling the border.

At the beginning of this year, after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the road connecting the two villages was blocked in time, and isolation piers and isolation nets were set up, which have not been removed so far.

  It was learned at the scene that after September 12, the Heha Group approached the outer edge of the village road on the border and began emergency construction and construction of protective nets. At present, most of the iron rods for hanging the wire mesh have been erected, and the protective wire mesh is being stepped up.

  Of course, the protective net does not guarantee that it will be set up exactly in accordance with the boundary.

Part of the fields of the Heha team will be blocked outside the protective net.

"For areas where there are fields outside of the protective net, we will consider setting up small doors that can be opened and closed to facilitate farming by villagers." Cun Daipeng said.

  In villages such as the Heha Group that are closely connected to foreign villages, it is not enough to build a protective net. How to strengthen protection?

  In this regard, the series of press conferences held in Ruili from the 14th to the 16th revealed some remarkable control measures for border villages: strengthened meetings and talks with Myanmar, and actively assisted Myanmar with epidemic prevention materials and funds Support and help neighboring villages abroad build strong epidemic prevention and control checkpoints; strictly control the entry and exit of border villages, establish a "zero report" system in the village, and clarify the "three hard measures" (the village entrance must be guarded, people from home must report, and outsiders (Isolate); integrate various forces such as village officials, community administrators, militia, border guards, border officials, generalists, forest rangers, and actively mobilize party members, cadres, volunteers, and the masses to ensure entry and exit All access roads, small roads, ferry crossings, etc. are all sealed and controlled; people in border villages are encouraged to actively report illegal and criminal activities such as smuggling, and rewards will be honored in accordance with relevant management methods after verification...