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The 6.2 magnitude earthquake killed more than 100 people, compared with just three people in the recent 7.4 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines. Part of the reason for this is that a large number of adobe houses in the rural areas of Jishishan have poor earthquake resistance, and after the earthquake, the rural adobe houses were vulnerable to a large number of collapses, causing many people to be buried.
Many people wonder why there are still a large number of adobe houses in 2023. Maybe you don't know Jishishan County yet.
Jishishan County is a multi-ethnic autonomous county with a relatively backward economy, and was once one of the 58 concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken counties and 23 deeply impoverished counties in Gansu Province, until February 2020, when it withdrew from poverty-stricken counties. Although the economy has developed to a certain extent in recent years, with a total per capita regional production of 12,000 yuan, it is far lower than the national average, and the local economic development is mainly based on agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery.
At the beginning of the earthquake, there were a large number of casualties, and then there was extremely cold weather. The adobe houses where the old folks lived in Jishi Mountain collapsed one by one, and as far as the eye could see, they were all covered with mud, and many farmers did not even have a quilt to protect them from the cold.
Everyone couldn't believe it when they saw the large number of adobe houses on the site. But this is indeed a true portrayal of the rural areas of Jishishan County, and even a microcosm of the rural areas of the great northwest.
In 2003, a reporter interviewed the rural areas of Jishishan County and recorded the real side with his camera. When he set foot again in 2018, he found that the local countryside had changed very little. After the earthquake, everyone paid attention to the adobe houses in the countryside, and reflected from the side that although the local countryside has developed to a certain extent in recent years, it is not big on the whole. Let's take a look at the real life in the countryside of Jishi Mountain back then.
This is the home of a county party committee cadre, and the earthen wall behind it is plastered with newspapers. This will prevent the dust from falling and will look cleaner.
The picture shows a villager's house, this 28-year-old guy lying on an iron frame bed, fell from the fourth floor and broke his right leg when he was working at a construction site, and there are two children at home.
This is another villager's house, with three earthen tile houses barely sheltering from the wind and rain. The father of two children went to dig Cordyceps sinensis in the deep mountains and old forests dozens of kilometers away. It doesn't sell for a thousand dollars a year, and it's very dangerous on the steep cliffs.
The 68-year-old grandfather and 7-year-old grandson, the child's parents both died of tuberculosis one after another, and now the 7-year-old grandson is also infected with tuberculosis. The face is sallow, and the eyes are blank.
This "little man" is holding a hoe and facing the camera with a smile on his face. He is 55 years old, and behind him is his brother's home. He has always lived with his brother. It is said that there are still 6 dwarfs like him in the whole village.
The two old men also lived in a dark adobe house.
The barefoot doctors of that era have now retired from the stage of history. The presence of barefoot doctors has made a great contribution to improving the medical conditions in rural areas of the mainland.
Township health centers in disrepair, more than a dozen dilapidated bungalows. The yard is all ground.
The internal diagnosis room of the health center is relatively simple. A bed and a wooden chair.
Clay firewood stoves, basically every household has such a stove. Cooking is all firewood, the sanitary conditions are relatively poor, and there are still some rural areas that use it.
The northern characteristic fire kang is very practical in winter. It can not only boil water, but also heat the kang. At present, it is still popular in the rural areas of the north to use clay kang for heating.
The above is the current situation of the rural area of Jishishan 20 years ago, but after 20 years, there are still a large number of civil engineering houses in the local area, which is really shocking. It shows that the rural economic development of Jishishan has been extremely slow in recent years, and there is still a long way to go in poverty alleviation, and the problem of unbalanced urban and rural development needs to be solved urgently. We should increase investment in housing construction in rural areas, popularize new building materials and technologies, and gradually improve living conditions in rural areas.