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In the early morning of June 22
Hunan Province was hit by a historically rare heavy rainstorm
Yiwangxi Town was the center of the rainstorm
The infrastructure is badly damaged
310 reservoirs have been put to the test by the continuous torrential rains
The agricultural output of the country's top 100 grain-producing counties has been hit hard
What is happening to Yiwang Creek, which is besieged by water
Li Chen is the mayor of Yiwangxi Town in the 90s, and in the past few days, he has paid more attention to Zhuyuan Village, which had the largest single-point rainfall on June 22. Because a large number of roads and infrastructure have been seriously damaged, he and Liu Dun, the village party secretary, are organizing volunteers to send the second batch of daily necessities to the fifth group of Zhuyuan Village, which has been cut off from the road and electricity for four days. Just as he was about to set off, a group of caring people from the society suddenly came with supplies.
Li Chen, Mayor of Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: Thank you for your help, there are 7.3 kilometers of roads inside, but we have to walk at least 4.5 kilometers away, and I hope to help us carry a little supplies into it. I recommend carrying at most a bag of rice or a barrel of oil, because the road is relatively long, the road is not easy to walk, and safety comes first.
Volunteer: Yes, we are all from rural areas.
As soon as I walked not far away, I encountered a repair vehicle from the telecommunications department. In front of the telecom maintenance vehicles is the power department's maintenance fleet, which is working hard to repair the damaged power grid.
Reporter: What was the assignment you received?
Power Driver: I'll deliver the pole. The high voltage can be turned on before it can be powered on.
Reporter: It's still raining, and the loose mountain will be dangerous to your project?
Electric driver: There is definitely danger, but there is no way, you still have to persevere, pay attention to safety.
From 3 a.m. on the 22nd, many power facilities in Zhuyuan Village were damaged by continuous heavy rain, and more than 600 people in 11 village groups and 401 households were completely cut off. Due to the serious damage to the road, although the government organized several excavators to carry out rescue dredging, the five groups in Zhuyuan Village still had no electricity, and the only 7.3-kilometer village road and bridge connected to the outside world were damaged.
In order to avoid losing contact, Liu Dun, the village party secretary, coordinated a temporary generator overnight, and he had to use his shoulders and legs to ensure smooth communication inside. The most dangerous part of the road is a narrow road clinging to the cliff, and the original roadbed is gone. Along the way, there are power poles blocking the road, power and telecommunications facilities scattered in the river, and damaged farmland, and some sections of the road require volunteers to temporarily build bridges with broken logs before they can wade through the water.
After nearly three hours in the rain, the group finally walked 4.5 kilometers and arrived at the first villager's house, which was owned by a 90-year-old man who lived alone. Because the old man was not at home on the night of the heavy rain on the 22nd, she did not know when the landslide occurred behind the house, and she only learned about the damage at home when she received a call from her eldest son at 6 o'clock in the morning. Three days later, at the old man's repeated requests, the second son carried her home from the town for three hours.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and at 5 p.m. people were notified that there would be a new round of heavy rainfall and that all outsiders had to evacuate immediately. On the way back, a resident who lives halfway up the mountain shouted for help, and she hoped that the village party secretary would send an excavator to help her clear the dredging with a landslide behind her home.
Heavy rain continues to fall, and the town of Yiwangxi will continue to be tested.
Early in the morning of June 27, the reporter encountered villagers on the way into the village who were pulling a cordon on the damaged road section. The rain has been non-stop, road damage and landslides are happening at any time, and there are currently more than 270 simple road warning points in Zhuyuan Village. The focus of Zhuyuan Village's work that day was to assist geological survey technicians in conducting field surveys of damaged houses, which was handled by Liu Shenghua, director of the village management and mediation department.
Technicians who are surveying the site said that in June this year, they had included the house in the "slope-cutting construction households" in their daily survey, as a key supervision object of the geological disaster department.
Xie Guilan, the owner of the house, said that on the 21st, her family had repeatedly received weather warnings, and the village committee had repeatedly reminded them to pay attention to the geological disaster points in front of the house and behind the house, so the whole family was very alert in the early morning of the heavy rain on the 22nd.
Since 2015, the Taoyuan County Natural Resources Bureau has gradually built and improved the county's comprehensive geological disaster prevention and control system. By the end of 2023, there will be 120 registered hazard points in the county, 5,396 households will build houses on medium and high-risk slopes, and 625 medium- and high-risk slope units will be preliminarily delineated. This detailed file of hidden dangers in the disaster situation provides clear and efficient guidance for the evacuation of people in various villages during the heavy rainstorm in Taoyuan County. Since the rainfall has decreased on the 23rd, the Taoyuan County Natural Resources Bureau has sent a total of 18 groups of 56 people to conduct a comprehensive survey at the grassroots level. It is hoped that the disaster situation will be clarified as soon as possible and provide a basis for the next step of post-disaster reconstruction.
The reporter followed Xie Guilan to the resettlement site where she is currently located, which is the home of 86-year-old Zhou Ziyun and his wife Dong Qunxian in Group 8 of Zhuyuan Village, and 22 residents of Group 8 of Zhuyuan Village have moved into his house one after another. Villagers said that the village had told them early on that they could come here to take refuge in the event of a geological disaster, because their home was relatively safe due to its high terrain.
As of June 27, a total of 145 villagers from 89 households had been relocated to Zhuyuan Village, and 62 residents from 35 households had been resettled in 7 centralized resettlement sites in the village, and 83 people from 54 households had been dispersed.
Since 2018, the Taoyuan County Bureau of Natural Resources has required at least one geological disaster emergency drill every year in the assessment of townships and towns. According to the weather forecast, the number of drills will be increased according to the prediction of the disaster situation of the year.
Li Zhiwu, Director of the Office of the Natural Resources Bureau of Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: On June 20, Taoyuan County held a night emergency drill for geological disasters. During the exercise, the second-level response to the geological disaster emergency response was activated, and the director and the leaders in charge immediately rushed back to the township to organize and arrange the next stage of the emergency plan.
Even residents who did not participate in the drill will definitely receive relevant text messages, and village cadres will come to remind them.
Li Zhiwu, Director of the Office of the Natural Resources Bureau of Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: Because there are many mountains in Taoyuan County, flash floods and geological disasters often occur together. The provincial requirement does not say that flash floods must be put together, but in Taoyuan County, in light of the actual situation, townships and towns put flash floods and geological disasters together during drills.
Yesterday, he braved the rain to hike Baiye Creek to deliver supplies, and Liu Dun, the village party secretary, had a fever. He received a call from the village inspection cadre that two villagers were missing from the resettlement site he had just visited. Liu Shenghua, the director of public security and investigation, was not at ease, and he had to drive to the resettlement site in person.
Liu Shenghua, director of public security and investigation in Zhuyuan Village, Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: I am afraid that this kind of safety accident will occur. Fortunately, the village and the town are still relatively safe, and there has not been a safety accident, which is really lucky. The house can be rebuilt after it has been washed away and collapsed, and human life is only this once.
Liu Shenghua, who grew up in this village, has been in business before, and he only became the director of the police in 2017. By the time Liu Shenghua arrived at the resettlement site, the missing brothers had already returned.
That night, Liu Shenghua decided to be stationed at the resettlement site in person, because the meteorological department warned that there was still heavy rain until the 29th.
There are a total of 310 large, medium and small reservoirs in Taoyuan County. On the 27th, heavy rain, the county's reservoirs are still being tested. The Zhuyuan Reservoir, located in Zhuyuan Village, is the second largest reservoir in Taoyuan County, and as soon as we arrived at the reservoir, we heard the sound of a horn.
Reporter: What does this voice mean?
Zhang Daowen, Secretary of the Party Branch and Stationmaster of Zhuyuan Power Station, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: It is necessary to mention the gate, and notify the downstream to pay attention. Generally, the operation starts half an hour after the alarm sounds.
Reporter: How many miles can this voice be heard?
Zhang Daowen, Secretary of the Party Branch and Station Manager of Zhuyuan Power Station, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: All the villages downstream reported to the local town government while raising the alarm, and then they notified the village by phone and notified every household.
The stationmaster told us that the Taoyuan County Water Conservancy Department had issued clear instructions to the reservoir to reduce its capacity three days before the heavy rainstorm arrived. From the No. 6 flood dispatch order at 10:50 on June 21, it was clearly required that the Zhuyuan Reservoir began to discharge floods at 24 o'clock on the 21st, followed by Order No. 7 at 4:00 on the 22nd, Order No. 10 at 6:15 on the 22nd, Order No. 13 at 10:20 on the 22nd, and Order No. 15 at 20:45 on the 22nd.
Luo Songqing, head of the Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention Center of the Taoyuan County Water Conservancy Bureau in Changde City, Hunan Province: By 8 a.m. on the 22nd, more than 300 millimeters had fallen from the Zhuyuan Reservoir, and the flood volume generated was 172 million cubic meters, far exceeding the capacity of its own reservoir. So we adjusted in time in the later stage and discharged 172 million yuan.
The saturation of the reservoir capacity caused by heavy rainfall is not only the pressure on one reservoir in Zhuyuan, but also the chain reaction that the discharge of each reservoir will have on the downstream rivers and other reservoirs, which requires unified and precise dispatch of the whole county to tide over the difficulties together. At present, there are 310 large, medium and small reservoirs and 121 kilometers of protective embankments in Taoyuan County, and there is not a single dangerous situation, not only no casualties, but also ships, farmland, and livestock along the line have not been damaged due to flood discharge.
Early in the morning of June 28, Li Chen, the mayor of the town, came to Xianrenxi Village to check on the resettlement of the affected villagers. The village committee of Xianrenxi Village was converted into a centralized resettlement site on the day of the heavy rainfall.
Wang Xiuying, the secretary of Xianrenxi Village, married from other places to her village 27 years ago, and worked with her husband to farm and aquaculture. Over the years, the natural conditions in the village have become better and better, and they have also opened homestays. Three years ago, the capable Wang Xiuying was elected as the party branch secretary of Xianrenxi Village. After the heavy rainstorm, Xianrenxi Village was able to quickly enter the stage of resumption of work and production, mainly because the relocation and resettlement of villagers was carried out in a timely manner.
Wang Xiuying, Secretary of the Party Branch of Xianrenxi Village, Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: Because I know that these households are slope-cut houses, geological disaster hidden danger points. We get these households with safety hazards into our homes earlier, and if there is really any emergency in the evening, we will have a little less workload. The earthy paradise of this place is: "a knife" when it is sunny and "a bad thing" when it rains. The situation of the mountain here is that the mud contains sand and stones, and when the sun comes out, it does not move, and when it rains heavily, it separates, and the mud is diluted, and it is as slippery as milk, and when it is wet, it rolls down.
On June 20, after receiving a notice from the county about the red warning of heavy rain, the day before the heavy rainstorm fell, Wang Xiuying resettled the three villagers under the supervision of the geological disaster hidden danger file to the homestay she opened. On the day of the heavy rainstorm, the village committee office was directly turned into a resettlement site in Xianrenxi Village. In order for those villagers whose houses are in danger to stay in the village committee at night, Wang Xiuying herself does not go home.
Wang Xiuying has a detailed account of the resettlement of villagers. After ensuring the safety of the villagers, her first priority is to help them reduce their losses.
The continuous rain finally stopped for a short time on the afternoon of the 28th. Li Chen, the mayor of the town, immediately rushed to Datong Village, which is the most seriously damaged farmland in the town.
Taoyuan County is one of the top 100 grain producing counties in the country, and it is also a traditional agricultural county in Hunan, with the first grain sowing area and total output in the province in the past five years, known as the "granary of Hunan". This rare and continuous heavy rain has severely damaged local agricultural production.
Unlike other industries, agricultural recovery requires strict timing of planting, and if the replanting is missed around the beginning of July 15, the local agricultural losses this year will be incalculable.
In this historically rare and sustained heavy rainstorm, Taoyuan County's agriculture is facing a triple test, is the early rice to be harvested still worth harvesting? Will the yield of the affected medium rice be significantly reduced? Can late rice, which must be sown immediately, be sown as scheduled?
Peng Qian, head of the grain and oil crop station of the Taoyuan County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau in Changde City, Hunan Province: This year's disaster has been relatively widespread. It is necessary to replant and replant, timely top dressing, and pay attention to the prevention and control of pests and diseases. Reduce damage caused by heavy rainfall and reduce losses. Since the heavy rain on the 22nd, our Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau has set up 6 technical guidance groups to provide technical guidance in the severely affected towns and villages on a regular basis.
At present, 26,000 acres of early and middle rice in Yiwangxi Town have been flooded, of which nearly 5,224 acres have been lost due to flooding. But for Datong Village, the failure of the harvest is only a minor problem, and the most problematic thing for them is that a large amount of farmland has been sanded and fossilized.
Peng Qian, head of the grain and oil crop station of the Taoyuan County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Changde City, Hunan Province: The agricultural cultivation layer has been washed away by the water, and now only sand and gravel remain. The farmland needs to be restored through engineering measures, which need to remove the sand and gravel from the surface layer, and then transport the topsoil from a suitable place outside to backfill. If the sand and gravel need to be restored, the process is more troublesome.
At present, about 400 acres of farmland in Yiwangxi Town alone have been fossilized. In order to further understand the current agricultural disaster situation in the county, the reporter came to the Taoyuan County Agriculture and Rural Bureau.
Chen Gaohua, deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: According to agricultural statistics, the area of crops affected by the disaster has reached 350,000 mu, of which more than 50,000 mu have been harvested.
In the latest statistical table, the estimated value of agricultural infrastructure damage is as high as 63.45 million yuan.
Taoyuan County registered with the existing cultivated land area of about 1.23 million mu, paddy field 1.06 million mu, as a large grain production county in Hunan Province, this data means that the county's annual grain production capacity, every cent of cultivated land must be firmly guarded.
Early in the morning of the 29th, despite the continuous rains, residents who had been living in the resettlement site for more than a week began to ask when they would be able to return home.
In the afternoon, the sky finally cleared, the dragonflies stopped by the pond to dry their wings, and the rice fields began to be busy again.
The mayor of the town, Li Chen, is still busy, and he and Li Zhiwu, director of the Bureau of Natural Resources, take a bamboo raft made by villagers to Jianjiaxi Village, where the road has been washed out. At present, 54 households and 73 people have been resettled in the village. A total of 31 villagers live in the largest centralized settlement in the village, and because of the large number of people, they had to set up temporary tents in the courtyard.
Mayor Li Chen's biggest concern at the moment is that once the rain stops and the temperature rises suddenly, mosquitoes in temporary shelters like tents will definitely not be able to live for long. Planning ahead to evacuate the residents of the resettlement sites is an urgent task that the government needs to help the affected villagers.
Before leaving, the mayor Li Chen left the phone to the homeowner of the centralized resettlement site.
Li Chen, Mayor of Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: My name is Li Chen, what can you tell me? If the bed is not in place, you will report it to me secretly.
Villager: The kid rolled out of this bed last night.
Li Chen, mayor of Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: How are people?
Villager: No problem.
Li Chen, mayor of Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: People are fine, but they just fell, right?
Villager: So he's under too much pressure.
Li Chen, Mayor of Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: The pressure of the branch secretary?
Villager: The pressure on the branch secretary is too great.
Li Chen, mayor of Yiwangxi Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province: The pressure on the branch secretary is great, but he must be able to carry it, otherwise he would not be able to be the branch secretary.
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