Guangxi is a border area and an ethnic minority area, and unity and stability are related to national security and the well-being of the people. We must have the responsibility to guard the soil, shoulder the responsibility of guarding the soil, and fulfill our responsibilities in defending the soil, promote national unity, defend the security of the motherland, and resolutely guard the "southern gate" of the motherland.
-- Report of the Twelfth Party Congress of the Autonomous Region
The police of the Friendship Customs Border Police Station of the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment patrolled the border line at night with police dogs. Correspondent Mo Hengxian photographed
Outdoor temperature 6 °C, light rain, northeast wind. Just after 20:00 on December 27, 2021, Chen Shiquan, a police officer from the Nonghuai Police Office of the Friendship Border Police Station of the Pingxiang Border Management Brigade of the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment, went out with two auxiliary police officers to patrol along the nonghuai border line. At the Boundary Monument No. 1102, Chen Shiquan opened the iron door, shone a flashlight on the boundary monument, and then swept the surrounding protective equipment, everything was normal. Closing the iron door, the 3 people continued on their way. In the darkness, the words "Chongzuo Tube" on their yellow reflective vests are particularly eye-catching.
At the same time, on the shuikou border, about 100 kilometers away from the nonghuai border line, Xu Ze, a police officer led by the Shuikou Border Police Station of the Longzhou Border Management Brigade, is also patrolling along the boundary river with two teammates in a flashlight in light rain. At night, the boundary river is dark, and the other side of the river is Vietnam.
At 20:30, a car drove into the Ningming Border Management Brigade Zhai'an Border Checkpoint, the police officer Feng Jixiong held a parking sign to stop the car, approached the window to verify the health code, itinerary code and personal information presented by the driver, carefully inspected every corner of the vehicle, and after a while, the car drove out of the checkpoint.
"Daxin Border Management Brigade, here is the supervision center, which police officer will lead the patrol tonight, where is the patrol direction, and when is the patrol time?" "Supervision center, tonight is the patrol led by Liang Peng, a police officer of the patrol control team, the patrol direction is the Shuolong border, and the patrol time is after 0 o'clock." At 21:00, in the police supervision center of the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment, Meng Shengli, a police officer with a shift, connected with the Daxin Border Management Brigade to understand the situation through a 4G walkie-talkie that night.
Police Supervision Center of Chongzuo Border Management Detachment. Photo by correspondent Meng Lisheng
On the cold winter night when the epidemic prevention and control situation was severe, the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment, the brightest group of "Shubian people" under the night sky, insisted on defending the 4 border counties (cities) in the southern Xinjiang of the motherland, shouldering the heavy responsibility of resisting the import of overseas epidemics and guarding the 533.7-kilometer Chongzuo land border.
As an important land gateway from the mainland to ASEAN and an important land gateway to the new land and sea corridor in the west, Chongzuo is at the forefront of the mainland's prevention of overseas epidemic imports. If foreigners smuggle into the mainland from the border, they are very likely to be infected with new crown pneumonia on the way for various reasons, which will bring direct challenges to the prevention and control of the border epidemic.
In the face of illegal acts of sneaking across the national (border) border, the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment has sent all police into battle, all-line deployment, global linkage, and all-out prevention, extensively mobilized social security forces to timely collect various epidemic-related information such as epidemic dynamics and adjustment of epidemic prevention measures in border provinces of neighboring countries and formed special analysis reports, and rewards for people who actively participate in preventing and cracking down on illegal entry-exit activities are given a reward for reporting, and through various forms of joint prevention and control, to prevent and resolve the risk of importing epidemics from abroad to the greatest extent. Since 2021, the detachment has investigated and dealt with more than 2,300 foreign personnel who have entered and exited the country illegally, detected more than 310 criminal cases of obstructing national (border) management such as organizing and transporting others to illegally cross the national border, cracked down on more than 1,000 criminal suspects, and repeatedly detected cases supervised by the National Immigration Administration, which was highly affirmed by the bureau.
The Chongzuo Border Management Detachment Pingxiang Border Management Brigade seized heroin. Photo by correspondent Li Yuheng
However, the risk of the epidemic through the import of drugs and drug dealers is still severe, outlaw card, flying car pursuit, gun battle hand-to-hand combat, these thrilling chase drug dealers scenes that can only be seen in the movie, behind us this steel defense line is indeed a real existence, for the anti-drug police guarding the border line is even more commonplace, behind every cracked drug crime case, is the anti-drug police countless sleepless days and nights, and even pay for their lives. Drugs go on and on, and drugs don't stop for a moment. Throughout August 2021, the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment cracked 11 drug cases in a row, smashed 4 drug trafficking gangs, arrested 28 criminal suspects, and seized 16.6 kilograms of drugs. Since 2021, the detachment has cracked 42 drug cases at all levels, seized 23.6 kilograms of drugs, and the number of drugs paid accounted for 57% of the Guangxi Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station.
In the report of the 12th Party Congress of the Autonomous Region, building a higher level of safety in Guangxi is the goal that our region will strive to achieve in the next five years. "Our detachment will resolutely implement the spirit of a series of important instructions issued by General Secretary Xi Jinping on comprehensively promoting normalized epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, keep an eye on the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control and border control, always maintain the state of full police and global combat, consolidate the foundation of strong border defense on the front line of the border, promote the construction of the border governance system, severely crack down on all kinds of cross-border illegal and criminal activities, and provide a safe and stable border barrier for the comprehensive construction of a modern southern Xinjiang gate city open to ASEAN." Make positive contributions to the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Party. Cheng Peng, head of the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment, said. (Reporter Xie Xiwei Correspondent Liang Peng)