First anniversary of the Wenchuan Earthquake

Measures taken and results

(1) Defend Zipingpu with all your might. After the earthquake, leaders from the Department of Water Resources rushed to the front line to take command. Director Leng Gang led a team to the Zipingpu Reservoir to investigate the danger. That night, he worked with Deputy Director Yongxiang, leaders of the Ministry of Water Resources, and experts to formulate a dam protection plan, implemented risk elimination measures, and eliminated the flood threat to Chengdu. They quickly mobilized 45 flood control assault boats and operators across the province, and took the lead in opening the water rescue channel from Zipingpu reservoir area to Yingxiu in the early morning of May 14. A total of more than 20,000 emergency rescue and medical personnel were transported to Wenchuan. More than 50 tons of medicines and supplies were transported out, and more than 20,000 injured and affected people were transported out.

(2) Safe, scientific and rapid disposal of barrier lakes. Adopting the method of "explosion when appropriate, digging when appropriate, and flushing when appropriate", 78 locations such as Tangjiashan and Xiaojiaqiao have been eliminated from danger, 17 locations such as Can Beach and Shibangou have been basically eliminated, the danger at Eagle Rock has been reduced, and the risk at Ganhekou, etc. 8 departments are studying risk mitigation measures. The Tangjiashan Barrier Lake, which poses the most serious threat, is the most difficult to eliminate, and attracts the most attention at home and abroad, has been successfully eliminated, creating a miracle in the world in dealing with large-scale barrier lakes. The obstruction of the Tiger's Mouth lifeline on National Highway 213 in Duwen was successfully disposed of. Superior leaders praised the water conservancy workers for fighting a tough and beautiful battle in the battle of "decisive battle against the Tiger's Mouth to overcome the world's problems".

(3) Emergency elimination of earthquake damage to water conservancy projects. The first is to make every effort to investigate dangerous situations. More than 3,000 water conservancy professionals and technicians were mobilized from the province's water conservancy system. Together with the Ministry of Water Resources, they organized a team to assist Sichuan and carried out a dragnet investigation to find out the damage to the province's earthquake-damaged reservoirs in the shortest possible time. Second, a responsibility mechanism was established to identify the administrative responsible person, technical responsible person and monitoring responsible person for the earthquake-damaged reservoirs and hydropower stations one by one, and the results were announced in the Sichuan Daily. The third is to implement the risk avoidance plan. In view of the large-scale and dangerous situation of earthquake-damaged reservoirs, the local government is guided to timely formulate the risk avoidance plan for the transfer of downstream people and implement forecasting and early warning measures. For some high-risk reservoirs and reservoirs with important locations, emergency alarm plans have been formulated, and public transfer route information cards and "What to do if a reservoir breaks" posters have been issued to guide the public to avoid danger safely. The Zhongjiang and Pengzhou danger avoidance drills were carefully organized, providing a model for flood prevention in earthquake-damaged reservoirs and for people to avoid danger. At the request of the Provincial Department of Water Resources, various localities organized and carried out hazard avoidance drills to improve their actual combat capabilities. Fourth, emergency water releases were carried out to reduce danger. All earthquake-damaged reservoirs were operated with water levels lowered. More than 210 of them were reduced to dead water levels, and 69 reservoirs in danger of dam failure were all drained. The fifth is to seize emergency relief, dispatching 18 on-site design teams and 1 design guidance team to work with more than 3,000 local water conservancy technicians to design the earthquake-damaged reservoir relief plan, and organized more than 10,000 rescue forces from inside and outside the province to rescue the disaster. . At present, all earthquake-damaged reservoirs and hydropower stations have completed emergency relief tasks as planned. Emergency relief for earthquake-damaged embankments was completed at 633 locations, accounting for 90% of the total. During the heavy rainfall in July and August, no new major dangers occurred in earthquake-damaged water conservancy projects.

(4) Make every effort to ensure emergency water supply in disaster areas. The first is to urgently investigate dangerous situations. The province's elite technical forces were mobilized, and together with experts dispatched by the Ministry of Water Resources and local water conservancy departments, 18 working groups were formed to find out the damage to water supply facilities in 21 hardest-hit counties. The second is to strengthen technical guidance. The "Implementation Plan for Emergency Guarantee of Rural Water Supply in Sichuan Province's Severely Earthquake-Stricken Areas" and the "Technical Plan for Emergency Centralized Water Supply at Resettlement Sites for Earthquake Relief Victims" were formulated to organize and guide local water conservancy departments to quickly carry out emergency water supply work. The "Emergency Knowledge on Drinking Water Safety for Earthquake Relief" was compiled and distributed to guide the public to use water safely and scientifically. The third is to provide emergency drinking water. We urgently purchased 120 water delivery trucks, 10,000 buckets and 200 fuel-fired generators to deliver water to the people in the hardest-hit towns, and invested in 6,500 sets of temporary water purification equipment, 46 mobile water-making equipment, and 10,000 life straws to ensure emergency response for the people. Drink water. Fourth, urgently repair and build new water supply facilities. We organized 18 water supply emergency repair teams in the province and more than 400 emergency repair teams from Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuhan, Dalian, etc. to assist Sichuan. Together with the water conservancy departments in the disaster areas, we urgently repaired more than 1,590 water supply facilities and built 2,129 emergency centralized water supply projects. . Fifth, strengthen water quality monitoring. We took the lead in establishing a linkage mechanism for earthquake relief and water supply guarantees with the Provincial Department of Construction, Department of Health, Environmental Protection Bureau, and Department of Agriculture; dispatched 4 water quality monitoring vehicles and hundreds of full-time and part-time water quality monitoring technicians to monitor centralized water supply sources and important river sections in the disaster area. The water quality of 250 sections in sensitive waters and sensitive waters is continuously monitored. By the end of May, the temporary emergency water supply problems for 5.75 million rural people in the disaster-stricken areas had been solved. And starting from the beginning of June, the water supply guarantee work has changed to the transitional resettlement water supply. Currently, multiple water supply demonstration sites have been established in each of the 21 hardest-hit counties; water supply facilities have been built in 1,441 prefabricated house resettlement sites across the province, ensuring the safety of drinking water for the disaster-stricken people.

(5) Carry out production self-rescue in a timely manner. The first is to restore water supply to irrigation areas as soon as possible. Emergency repair funds of 63.09 million yuan were raised from various parties to carry out emergency restoration of damaged irrigation projects. The danger of channels, hubs and key buildings in severely damaged irrigation areas was basically relieved. Emergency irrigation and water supply capabilities were basically restored on May 31, ensuring that In the year of the disaster, the water supply for agricultural production was safe, and 29.41 million acres of rice were planted, which was only 400,000 acres less than the planned planting area. The second is to restore local power supply as soon as possible.

The power supply has been restored to all 96 disaster-stricken towns and villages powered by local electricity, except for Magong Township in Qingchuan County, which was buried by mudslides and Shiba Township, which was flooded by the Shibangou barrier lake and lost power supply conditions. The third is to resume aquatic production as soon as possible. The aquaculture area has been restored to 207,500 acres, and 8,695 tons of seeds have been re-released.

(6) Carry out solid flood prevention and security work. First, conscientiously implement responsibilities and carry out flood prevention supervision. Adhere to 24-hour flood prevention duty and carry out comprehensive flood prevention inspections. 10 department-level cadres will lead the supervision team to conduct multiple in-depth inspections of the establishment of the flood prevention responsibility system, the improvement of the preparation of flood prevention plans, the reserve of emergency supplies, and the formation and training of rescue teams. , and focused on urging all localities to implement flood relief measures for the 1997 earthquake-damaged reservoirs. The second is to comprehensively investigate the flood safety of resettlement sites for disaster-stricken people. Special inspections were conducted on 19 resettlement sites with potential safety hazards, and monitoring and inspections were strengthened at 5 resettlement sites including Jingu Village in Beichuan County, and risk avoidance plans were made; at 6 resettlement sites including Qingshaping in Wenchuan County, intensive inspections were carried out. Engineering measures such as high-grade walls and reinforced embankments have been implemented to prevent the situation; 8 resettlement sites with serious hidden dangers, including Jiangyou Jingyuan Village, have been issued written notices to evacuate within a time limit. The third is to carry out flood prevention and avoidance drills. Nanchong, Luzhou and other cities and prefectures have conducted drills on flood prevention organization and command, flood warning, mass transfer, emergency response, casualty treatment and other projects, and achieved good results.

(7) Successfully complete the post-disaster reconstruction plan. In line with the attitude of being responsible to the party, the people, and history, based on the present and looking into the long term, we scientifically prepared a water conservancy post-disaster reconstruction plan, which successfully passed the review of the Ministry of Water Resources and the provincial government. A symposium of directors of 19 provincial and municipal water conservancy departments (bureaus) on counterpart assistance for post-disaster reconstruction in Sichuan was successfully held, realizing the docking of counterpart assistance work in terms of projects, funds, construction management and coordination.

During the 100 days of water conservancy earthquake relief, we gave full play to the role of the People's Liberation Army, the Armed Police Hydropower Troops and the water conservancy professional construction rescue team as new forces and commandos. We dispatched 14,000 rescue personnel and mobilized more than 4,000 people. The air force dispatched nearly 800 helicopter sorties and rented Russian Mi-26 helicopters for more than 90 sorties to transport excavators, bulldozers, loaders, deep hole drills, diesel generator sets and other large construction machinery and emergency equipment. More than 3,400 experts and engineering technicians, nearly 200 tons of various materials such as explosives, supplies, and communication equipment, and more than 90 sets of large-scale construction machinery, equipment, containers, and oil tanks were actively deployed to eliminate risks to barrier lakes and earthquake-damaged water conservancy projects. Rescue, eliminate safety threats and prevent secondary disasters.

This arduous struggle for earthquake relief is a comprehensive test of the quality, ability and style of cadres and workers in the water conservancy system. The practice of the water conservancy earthquake relief struggle has fully proved that the cadres and workers of the water conservancy system are a team with high political quality, strong professional ability and hard work style. They are a team that dares to be responsible, can fight tough battles, and is worthy of the trust of the party and the people.