127 people were held accountable for the "8.21" flash flood disaster in Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture

After the "8.21" flash flood disaster in Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture, the Party Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to it, and General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions many times, clearly requiring a comprehensive investigation and serious punishment of relevant responsible persons in accordance with the law. The Sichuan Provincial Discipline Inspection and Supervision Organs strictly pursued and held accountable 127 CPC members and supervision targets suspected of violating discipline and law and dereliction of duty and responsibility in accordance with regulations, discipline and law, and the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Organs filed a case for investigation and took criminal coercive measures against 12 enterprise personnel suspected of violating the law and committing crimes.

Tang Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shudao Investment Group Co., Ltd., and Fang Fenghua, Secretary of the Jinyang County Party Committee, were placed on file for review and investigation by the discipline inspection and supervision organs and taken measures of retention in custody. Among them, Fang Fenghua and Chen Qixue, chief engineer of Shudao Investment Group Co., Ltd., Song Junjie, director of the Department of Safety, Environmental Protection and Emergency Management of Shudao Investment Group Co., Ltd., Liu Wen, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Sichuan Yanjiang Panning Expressway Co., Ltd., Wang Chuan, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and mayor of Lubi Town, Jinyang County, and Xiang Liukun, member of the Party Committee and deputy mayor of Lubi Town, Jinyang County, were expelled from the party and expelled from public office for serious violations of discipline and law, and their suspected crimes were transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution in accordance with the law. Tang Yong and Xiong Guobin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Sichuan Road and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., are under review and investigation.

Chen Liangchun, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice Chairman and General Manager of Sichuan Road and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., Wang Zhonglin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Sichuan Highway and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Bridge Engineering Branch of Sichuan Highway and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., Huang Ping, general manager, Liu Jin, executive deputy manager of the JN1 project management department of Sichuan Highway and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., and Hou Xiaodong, head of Sichuan Jintai Hongsheng Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., were suspected of falsely reporting safety accidents or major liability accidents. The discipline inspection and supervision organs imposed expulsion from the Party and dismissal from public office (termination of labor contracts) for 10 of the CCP members and supervision targets.

At the same time, the discipline inspection and supervision organs respectively gave party discipline and government sanctions or admonishments, ordered inspections, criticized and educated other 109 responsible persons of Shudao Investment Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries who had problems of violating discipline and law and dereliction of duty and responsibility in the flash flood disaster, the party committees and governments of Liangshan Prefecture and Jinyang County and their relevant departments, and the relevant departments directly under the provincial government. Among them, two people, including Yao Yongxi, safety director of the Bridge Engineering Branch of Sichuan Highway and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd. and project manager of the JN1 Project Management Department, were expelled from the party and dismissed from public office (termination of labor contracts); Wu Wentao, secretary of the Party Committee of the Bridge Engineering Branch of Sichuan Highway and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., and Fan Lali, secretary of the Party Committee of Lubi Town, Jinyang County, were placed on party probation and dismissed from government affairs; Zhang Jianming, deputy general manager of Sichuan Road and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., and deputy secretary of the Jinyang County Party Committee, were given the punishment of party probation and dismissal from government affairs; 12 people, including county magistrate Wu Guo, were removed from their positions within the party and dismissed from government affairs. The Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government are responsible for the two vice governors who are responsible for the relevant work and the 21 departments and units that are directly responsible, territorially responsible, and responsible for industry supervision to conduct in-depth inspections.

After the disaster, the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government resolutely implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, immediately established a leading group for investigation and disposal, and quickly carried out personnel search and rescue, personnel verification and aftermath disposal. Special meetings have been held several times to study the investigation and handling work, in-depth inspection and reflection, and severe and speedy punishment and accountability of relevant responsible persons. In the province, we will carry out in-depth special actions for disaster prevention, mitigation and avoidance focusing on mountain floods and geological disasters, as well as special rectification of outstanding problems in the field of safety and problems such as untruthfulness and deception, draw inferences from one case and improve the system and mechanism, solve problems and hidden dangers from the source, and make every effort to prevent the occurrence of various disasters and accidents.

The "8.21" flash flood disaster investigation and assessment report in Jinyang County, Sichuan Province was released

Investigation of the "8.21" flash flood disaster in Jinyang County, Sichuan: illegal residents and untimely evacuation during the flood season are important reasons for the loss of casualties

Today, the "8.21" flash flood disaster investigation and assessment report in Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province was released, the full text of which is as follows:

In the early morning of August 21, 2023, the Luzilin River Basin in Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture was affected by short-term heavy rainfall in the upper reaches of the flash flood and debris flow disaster, and the construction personnel of the steel processing plant of the JN1 Project Management Department of the G4216 Line Jinyang-Ningnan Section of the Expressway (hereinafter referred to as the JN1 Project Department) of the Sichuan Highway and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., which is located in the lower reaches of the Ludulin River, were washed away, resulting in 6 deaths, 46 missing contacts and 21 injuries. A few days ago, the executive meeting of the Sichuan Provincial Government deliberated and approved the "8.21" flash flood disaster investigation and assessment report in Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture. After investigation, it was determined that the "8.21" flash flood disaster in Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture was a flash flood and debris flow disaster caused by multiple collapses, landslides, and debris flows caused by concentrated heavy rainfall in the upper reaches, and a large amount of sediment was carried by the flash flood, which washed away the construction personnel of the steel bar processing plant of the JN1 project department. Local party committees and governments and relevant departments have failed to perform their duties in disaster prevention and response, daily flood control management, and project construction supervision, and some cadres in Liangshan Prefecture and Jinyang County have acquiesced and connived at enterprises to lie and conceal the number of missing people.

The investigation team found that short-term heavy rainfall was an important factor that induced disasters; unfavorable topography, landform, and geological conditions aggravated the hazards of disasters; poor flood and sand transport in rivers aggravated the disaster effects; and illegal residents and failure to move people in time to avoid danger during the flood season were important reasons for the loss of contact with casualties.

The investigation team found that the relevant personnel of the Shudao Investment Group Co., Ltd. and its subordinate enterprises jointly organized and carried out false reporting and concealment; in order to cover up the act of making false reports and concealing information, the Shudao Investment Group Co., Ltd. organized funds in violation of regulations to deal with the aftermath, and the relevant personnel did not report their knowledge; and some cadres in Liangshan Prefecture and Jinyang County tacitly connived at the acts of lying and concealing the number of missing people. The JN1 project department was seriously lucky, did not organize the transfer of risk avoidance in time, and there was an obvious lack of implementation of the end responsibility, and the Jinyang County Party Committee, the county government and relevant departments and Lubi Town did not track and verify the implementation of the transfer and hedging. The JN1 project department illegally used temporary land, occupied the river in violation of laws and regulations, arranged residents in violation of regulations during the flood season, and failed to rectify hidden dangers.

The investigation team found that the main responsibilities of Shudao Investment Group Co., Ltd. and the enterprises involved were not implemented, the industry supervision responsibilities of relevant departments were not implemented effectively, and the territorial responsibilities of the party committees and governments of Liangshan Prefecture, Jinyang County, and Lubi Town were not implemented in place.

In accordance with regulations, the investigation team shall transfer clues and relevant materials discovered during the investigation to the Sichuan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision for the investigation of accountability and accountability.

In view of the problems exposed in the course of disaster response and handling, the investigation team summed up the main lessons in five aspects: Some leading cadres do not have a sufficient understanding of the extremity of disasters and lack a strong sense of risk and bottom-line thinking; they do not have a strong party spirit and principles, lie about and conceal the number of missing people, and touch the "red line" of law and discipline; they do not carry out their responsibilities for flood prevention and do not implement them in place; they do not have a sound mechanism for transferring and avoiding risks, and they do not implement the "call and response" in place; and there are loopholes in daily supervision and management, and hidden dangers of problems have existed for a long time.

The investigation team put forward five suggestions for prevention and improvement measures, emphasizing the need to earnestly improve the political position and firmly establish the concept of safe development, refine the implementation of flood prevention responsibilities and strengthen flood prevention safety supervision, earnestly strengthen source control and comprehensively investigate and rectify hidden dangers, strengthen the management of emergency plans, improve the early warning and response mechanism, do a good job in publicity, education and training, and improve disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities.

Column Editor-in-Chief: Qin Hong Text Editor: Song Hui

Source: Author: Honest Sichuan