When various countries are preventing the prevention and blocking of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, there is a problem that is difficult to solve the epidemic prevention at the border, that is, border cities face unimaginable "border guarding" pressure in other countries and regions.
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar launched military unrest, and Yunnan, which is on the Border between China and Myanmar, is facing the dual pressure of the epidemic and the war in Myanmar.
Yunnan, located on the China-Myanmar border, is one of China's border provinces and has the highest number of imported cases. In addition to the Burmese who smuggled before the epidemic, a large number of Myanmar telecommunications fraudsters surrendered or returned to China by smuggling under these waves of the epidemic has also become another difficulty in epidemic prevention, and these people are more willing to pay high fees in order to return to China, and it is rumored in the jianghu that the maximum amount of smuggling can reach 350,000 yuan.
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The border line in Yunnan is long, and 500 kilometers of fences have been built overnight
In July last year, there was a rebound in the south of Caiyun. Ruili City, Yunnan Province, which bears the brunt of the outbreak, on the China-Myanmar border, said it would "severely crack down on border smuggling" and implement the strictest "ten uniform" controls, including "all traffic control", "all report (smuggling) rewards", and "all participation in nucleic acid testing" A total of 10 of the most stringent border and epidemic prevention policies. So far, Ruili has experienced 6 lockdowns.
At the end of October, Ruili became the focus of attention due to "the life of long-term lockdown residents". Ruili, which surrounds Myanmar on three sides, has a border with Myanmar of 169.8 kilometers, and the long border line has become a major epidemic prevention breach. On October 29, Ruili's press conference mentioned that "the recent positive detection rate of overseas returnees has continued to be above 20%", which shows that the border epidemic is severe.
The post-90s Ying lives in Lincang, Yunnan, unlike Ruili, which surrounds Myanmar on three sides, and Only one side of Lincang borders Myanmar. She said, "What I don't think everyone can understand is that Yunnan has no so-called border line. ”
She explained that the border between Yunnan and Myanmar is mostly deep mountains, it is not like some countries' border lines have iron nets, hurdles or a wall, but the mountains are still mountains, "the border line is long and many deep mountains, very difficult to defend, smugglers to come over easily, every day to run a little bit quickly." Before the epidemic, there were not a few people who smuggled between the two places to make money, and coupled with the fact that the people of Myanmar and China looked similar and wore masks, "as long as they don't talk or check their identities, it is almost impossible to tell who is who."
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The 50-year-old uncle threw night lights to guard the side, and the human snake group earned 50,000 yuan a month
As a result, since July last year, a 500-kilometer-long "barbed wire border fence" has appeared on the border of Yunnan, and pictures have been widely circulated on the Internet. Even, the Lincang Municipal Government of Yunnan Province has cooperated to create an "early warning fence", as long as it touches the fence, it will call the police and notify the monitoring and nearby patrol personnel.
Since the construction of barbed wire to prevent stowaways from becoming a loophole in epidemic prevention, grass-roots civil servants often have to go to the border to guard the border. Ying Mou revealed that his mother's previous grass-roots units now learned that many colleagues have been arranged to guard the border" There is a colleague who is already an uncle in his 50s, who is about to retire, and he also has to wear a military coat to patrol and guard the border, so it is really all the police stations on the border line, the public security of the forestry, etc., and the manpower can be used. ”
Grassroots civil servants in Yunnan have devoted themselves to epidemic prevention work, and some people have overworked them. However, there are still many stowaways, and because myanmar is not effective in epidemic prevention, whether they want to turn themselves in through legitimate channels or smuggle, the only goal is to "return to China".
Ying mentioned that the arrest of a person who used a special car to pull a stowaway earned 50,000 yuan a month, "he did not even cross the China-Myanmar border, but just helped this stowaway move from one county to another county", Ying mentioned that because the mainland public transportation must be real-name system, without ID card can not buy tickets, "he alone collected 1,000 yuan, a month can earn more than 50,000 yuan." ”
Ying mou said that the people who make this kind of money are not a minority, and previously Yunnan also had a border that "made a safe house for smuggled people to live in" and has been caught.
Old photos
On the one hand, the grass-roots cadres in Yunnan are exhausted due to epidemic prevention, on the other hand, they can obtain huge profits by assisting smugglers to return to China, and stricter policies have made prices rise repeatedly, and more people are willing to take risks. According to a blogger, the amount of money that used to help smugglers travel from Myanmar to China was 30,000, but the rumors heard in November have peaked at 350,000. People who did not want to be named revealed that the price of assisting smugglers from Myanmar to this side has risen to 100,000 to 200,000 yuan.
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Cancel household registration, publish the list and the epidemic situation, three gold medal fraudsters "self-cast net"
In June last year, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi and other places all issued "laws on the proposed cancellation of the household registration of people stranded in northern Myanmar", and since then, local governments have followed up and intensified their efforts, not only canceling their household registration but also suspending their bank cards, mobile phone cards and social security cards.
On November 4, Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province, went a step further, in addition to freezing the hukou of 27 illegally stranded people and telecommunications fraudsters who refused to return to China, they also required their children to return to their hometowns to attend school nearby, "forcing" telecommunications fraudsters to return to China as sons. In addition, it is also a common method to directly publish the "high-risk list" of "suspected" telecommunications fraudsters on the Internet and require the people on the list to prove their innocence.
In addition to requiring "fraudsters to return to China" through different measures, these telecom fraudsters are also "like arrows" because of the intertwining of politics and the epidemic in Myanmar since the coup d'état in February, and telecom fraudsters have increasingly "willingly" thrown themselves into the net.
In addition, in July last year, the border crossing between the two countries erected a sign that reads, "Limited number of applicants to return to China, limited to 150 people per day", which was called a spectacle by netizens.
The main reason is because these returned fraudsters must be isolated and tested, many of which are positive, unable to quickly vacate a large number of places of storage, the local government only has to stipulate the quota, and there are also many northern Myanmar fraudsters who pay for the "scalpers" in the hope of joining the queue, just to return to China as soon as possible.
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Looking at the border epidemic Yunnan residents: Public opinion should not be one-size-fits-all
Looking back at october last year, the border city of Ruili gained public attention because of the long-term lockdown of residents' livelihoods, and was compared with Places with Relatively Stable Epidemic Prevention such as Shanghai, Ying Mou believed that this was "not understanding the border and not understanding the countryside".
The national gate of ruili port on the China-Myanmar border
Ying mentioned that when everyone criticized Ruili's "one-size-fits-all" epidemic prevention, it was actually a kind of "one-size-fits-all of public opinion". She shared her chat with friends in Shanghai, who thought that she could not understand Ruili's long-term lockdown, and the Shanghai friend mentioned that this is to "lock people up", but living in Shanghai, where medical treatment is relatively developed, she believes that the new crown can actually be cured, and the epidemic prevention policy should not be so.
People in the big cities of the interior don't understand the border rural areas, and sometimes their views are too "God's perspective" and they think things are too simple. "I can't understand that some people in rural areas can't go to the hospital when they are sick, and how poor people can be, how long it takes to see how long an illness has to go to the county town, and how long it takes to take transportation." She believes that of course, epidemic prevention cannot be one-size-fits-all, but public opinion should not treat the epidemic prevention issue at the border one-size-fits-all.
The "one village, two countries" well in Yinjing Dai Village, one well, the people of the two countries drink together, live in harmony, inherit from generation to generation, and pass it on as a good story.
However, Ying also believes that compared with Ruili, the epidemic in Lincang, which borders Myanmar on the only side, is indeed "relatively stable". She still remembers that last year, when the epidemic situation in Yunnan was relatively mild and medical supplies were relatively abundant, she saw that the people of Ruili in the circle of friends were still seeking assistance from some medical supplies such as masks, and turned to her father and asked her father, "Aren't we all quite good to buy here (Lincang, Yunnan)?" Why do they still want this? Later, she saw the news of Ruili's change of leadership.
Ying Mou analyzed, "may not have realized the seriousness of the epidemic problem, but it may also be that there are more ethnic minority areas in Ruili" It is difficult to implement epidemic prevention policies, according to official data, Ruili's ethnic minorities account for 41.5% of its total population, and it is difficult to publicize epidemic prevention policies, "After all, the differences in each place are really too big. ”
Some refugees are preparing to cook at a centralized settlement in Lincangnan Umbrella Town, Yunnan Province, on the China-Myanmar border.
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Border epidemic prevention is easy to rigidity, "empty city into the only solution"?
According to comprehensive statistics, Yunnan ranks first in imported confirmed cases from border provinces and regions. As of December 16 last year, yunnan had a total of 1,180 confirmed cases imported from abroad, and Heilongjiang, which ranked second, had a total of 404 cases. In November last year, Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, added 25 new cases in a single day, and the "Longjiang Health Code" of heihe city household registration citizens in order to control the epidemic was all turned yellow, which triggered criticism from the outside world.
A border guard soldier is on duty in the town of Lincangnan umbrella in Yunnan, on the China-Myanmar border.
However, this kind of epidemic prevention iron fist that prefers to "misjudge a thousand people and not let one person go" is indeed common in border provinces. On December 16 last year, Ruili, a border town surrounded by Myanmar on three sides, asked residents to sign a "personal responsibility pledge," saying that residents needed to strictly abide by epidemic prevention regulations and help fight border crimes. If the above "commitment" is violated, it voluntarily accepts the relevant "strict and severe punishment", and emphasizes that all people must sign to "ensure that no household is missed and no one is missed".
While many countries choose to "coexist with the virus", insisting on zero clearance is still a major goal of China's epidemic prevention. Border provinces are under unimaginable pressure, because the epidemic prevention policy of a single confirmed case is rapidly tightened, and border residents can understand but are tired.
Epidemic prevention and control duty station on the China-Myanmar border at night
Yuan Yuan, who is born in the 90s, stayed because her children were studying in Ruili, but she has recently planned to leave. "We citizens feel that this place is no longer suitable for business and employment, and it is no longer suitable for children to go to school." She mentioned that she can see the efforts of the government and grassroots, "but in my opinion it may be necessary to empty the ruili place", otherwise it will be difficult to achieve the goal because of the situation in Myanmar.