Aftershocks of Panzhihua earthquake

On September 3rd, it was learned from the Emergency Management Office of Panzhihua Municipal People's Government that according to the magnitude of 3.0 ~ 3.9, 2 1 time, 4.0 ~ 4.9 2, 5.0 ~ 5.9 1 time, the largest magnitude was the aftershock of magnitude 5.6 that occurred on August 3rd1day.

Xinhuanet Kunming, August 3 1 Sunday (Reporter Cai, Zhang Yining) As of 8: 00 on August 3 1 Sunday, the Panzhihua earthquake has affected about 440,000 people in Chuxiong, Zhaotong, Dali, Kunming and other places in Yunnan Province, and damaged more than 30,000 houses, including nearly 90,000 people.

According to the statistics of the Office of Earthquake Relief Headquarters in Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, as of 8: 00 on March1Day, Panzhihua earthquake has caused 46 towns and villages in Yuanmou County, Yongren County, Dayao County, Wuding County and Mouding County in Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province to be affected, with the affected population reaching 189950, with 5 deaths, 36 serious injuries and 72 minor injuries. There are 65438 buildings +0 1 1448 buildings, 656 schools and 2 13 institutions.

According to the statistics of Yunnan Provincial Civil Affairs Department, as of 8: 00 on March1Day, except Chuxiong, about 250,000 people in Zhaotong, Dali and Kunming in Yunnan Province were affected, and about 7,500 households and 25,000 houses were damaged. Yunnan Provincial Civil Affairs Department has allocated 3,200 tents and 1000 quilts to the disaster area. The civil affairs department of the disaster area in Yunnan Province has distributed 25 tons of rice, and Chuxiong Prefecture allocated 350,000 yuan for disaster relief.

On 3 1 day, Luo Zhengfu, executive vice governor of Yunnan Province, led the staff of Yunnan Provincial Civil Affairs Department, Finance Department, Health Department and other departments to direct rescue in the disaster area.

On August 30th, 2008 16: 30, an earthquake with the magnitude of 6. 1 occurred along the Jinsha River at the border of Sichuan and Yunnan, which did harm to Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Panzhihua City and Wei Chu, and also affected Kunming, Lijiang and Dali.

Huili County, Panzhihua City, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and Yuanmou County, Wei Chu City, Yunnan Province were the hardest hit, with 4/kloc-0 deaths per person. By September 15, the statistics of the earthquake relief headquarters in the above three places showed that 770 people were injured in the earthquake; 18352 houses collapsed and 428 175 houses were seriously damaged; The direct economic loss is about 6.045 billion yuan.

From the morning of September 1, the reporter entered the earthquake zone for half a month. In the disaster area, he not only saw the tragic situation that houses collapsed one after another, groups of homeless villagers, families were destroyed and people died one after another, but also saw the active efforts of governments at all levels in two provinces and three places in earthquake relief, and also found some noteworthy phenomena and problems.

Some phenomena

Controversy between epicentres

"The epicenter is on our side, you can't say that many people died, and the disaster will be very serious ..." On September 8, after Panzhihua held the seventh news conference of the earthquake, Qi Guiquan, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, told reporters.

"They will understand that there is actually only one point there-a town is affected, and our side is completely affected ... In fact, we are in the Panzhihua earthquake, named Panzhihua earthquake!" Qi Guiquan stressed.

In fact, before the reporter went to the earthquake zone, I saw that most of the online reports were "An earthquake of magnitude 6. 1 occurred in Panzhihua, Sichuan", and so were the titles of many portal websites. The first news from Xinhua News Agency said: "According to the National Seismological Network of China, an earthquake of magnitude 6. 1 .9 occurred at the junction of Renhe District, Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province and Huili County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture (26.2 degrees north latitude and1.9 degrees east longitude), and the epicenter was about 50 kilometers southeast of Panzhihua City. Focal depth 10 km. "

However, the cadres in Huili County have always told reporters: "The epicenter is in Huili! 32 townships in our county were seriously affected. "

Where is the epicenter? The reporter went to Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province along the hardest hit area, and saw that the county and township documents all said "On August 30, 2008 16: 30, an earthquake of magnitude 6. 1 occurred in Huili County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province". Among them, the document of Jiangyi Town stated that "four people were killed and 65 people were injured in my hometown because of being close to the epicenter". Jiangyi Township is completely bordered by Li Hong Township at the southernmost tip of Huili County. The death toll in this township alone reached 4, accounting for 67% of the total death toll in Yunnan.

In the face of the "epicenter dispute" between Panzhihua and Huili, a department-level cadre in Huili County told reporters: "After the discussion at the meeting, we felt that they really wanted to fight for this epicenter, so let them take it ..."

In this regard, the reporter interviewed Peng Jianbing, deputy director of Panzhihua Earthquake Disaster Reduction Bureau. Peng Jianbing told reporters: "The epicenter should be between Renhe District of Panzhihua City and Lvshui Town of Huili County. The macro epicenter should be most of Huili County, and Panzhihua and Yuanmou County also account for some. " "It is along the Jinsha River, and the main body is in Jiangdong."

The reporter noted that with the constant changes in the number of disasters in the earthquake zone, the name of this earthquake has also undergone subtle changes on the Internet, from "Panzhihua Earthquake" to "Panzhihua-Huili Earthquake" or "Renhe-Huili Earthquake".

Why are the two areas in southern Sichuan so concerned about the name and epicenter of the earthquake?

Disaster dispute

In two provinces and three places, local cadres first provided reporters with a series of disaster figures every time they went to a region.

The figures provided by Huili County to reporters are "death", "serious injury", "minor injury" and "house collapse". In the list of deaths provided to reporters, 29 deaths in the county were distributed in 8 townships. The reporter began to trace the last track of the deceased's life and visited the place where the deceased died in 14. At the same time, the person in charge of the village where the other deceased was located was connected by telephone for verification.

The reporter found that the deaths of Huili were basically killed by collapsed adobe houses or buried in mounds.

The figures provided by Huili County Earthquake Relief Headquarters to reporters are: 29 people died; 360 people were injured; 70 13 houses collapsed and 98458 houses were damaged; The direct economic loss was 654.38+87.4 million yuan.

When the reporter came to Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, the figures of the county were as follows: 5 people died; 132 people were injured; 4946 houses collapsed and 34048 houses were damaged; The direct economic loss was 744.7 million yuan.

According to the death list provided by the county, the reporter visited four places where the deceased died in Jiangyi Township, and verified the deceased in Bingnong Village, Bian Jiang Township through village cadres. Yuan's death was the same as Huili's, either crushed to death by the earthquake or buried in the soil.

On September 8, the reporter arrived in Panzhihua again and was taken to the exhibition center where the earthquake press conference was being held. The reporter learned about the disaster from Zhang Hai, deputy director of the Panzhihua Municipal Government Information Office. Zhang Hai gave the reporter a piece of material. "Our losses are very large, and many of our industrial enterprises have been seriously affected."

In this regard, Zheng Xiancong, a reporter from Sichuan Daily, said: "Huili is far from Renhe with great losses and heavy disasters. It cannot be said that there are many people who die, and the losses are great. "

In fact, it was at this press conference that Wenbo, one of the spokesmen, the deputy director of Panzhihua Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, gave a detailed introduction to mangoes and pomegranates in the city at the beginning, and so on. Affected by the earthquake, "the number of merchants decreased by 30%"; "The city's agriculture and animal husbandry system will provide high-quality and efficient services for merchants who come to climb", "High-quality mangoes and pomegranates are covered with branches, waiting for people of insight and caring merchants to taste and buy".

When the reporter asked for the death list of the city, Zhang Hai refused. "This involves personal privacy and the civil affairs department does not allow it."

Faced with the "6" death toll in Panzhihua municipal government materials, the reporter began to visit 3 districts and 2 counties in the city and got the following results:

1. Shan, male, 43 years old, Yi nationality, a villager of Huoshan Formation in Pingdi Town, Renhe District. After the earthquake on the afternoon of 30th, he lifted rice from the house, fell down the steps and landed on his head, and died on the way to the hospital at 3 1 am.

2. Liu, male, 54 years old, Han nationality, is a villager in the second group of Kelang Village, Caochang Township, Miyi County. During the earthquake on the afternoon of the 30th, he escaped from the house and was killed by the collapsed side wall of the courtyard gate.

3. Qu Chunfen, female, 42 years old, Yi, a villager in Songlingang Community, Xuri Village, Hehe Township, Yanbian County. On the afternoon of September 5th 17, a landslide occurred in the local area. Many stones rolled down and were killed by a rolling stone.

4. Hou, female, 42 years old, Han nationality, a villager in Chenjiagou Village, Wuma Township, Langzhong City, Sichuan Province. Working in Panzhihua, she ran out of the rented house during the earthquake on the afternoon of the 30 th and fell 3 meters. She was sent to the hospital for rescue and died. Guo Qing, director of the sub-district office, said: "This is not an earthquake death, but at most an earthquake death. She had a heart attack. "

5. Qin Shuqing, female, 65 years old, Yi nationality, a villager from No.4 Community, Mengliangping, Bude Town, Renhe District. He was hospitalized in the Second Hospital of Panzhihua City before the earthquake. During the earthquake, he went out with other patients to absorb shock, and 17 returned to the ward. Wang Feng, deputy director of the street where the hospital is located, said: "Because of psychological panic, coronary heart disease broke out and died after being rescued."

6. Hai Guihong, male, 3 1 year old, Yi nationality, farmer in Yongsheng County, Yunnan Province. He works as an air gun worker in a limestone mine in western Panzhihua. After the earthquake on the afternoon of the 30th, when he left the scene, the clod rolled off the cliff and died.

The above is the final list of deaths in Panzhihua. The name of the injured in this city is different from that in the other two places, called "278 people were injured due to the disaster".

By September 15, there were 98,458 sets in Huili, 34,048 sets in Yuanmou and 295,669 sets in Panzhihua. In the column of "direct economic loss", Huili is 65.438+87.4 million yuan, Yuanmou is 745 million yuan, and Panzhihua is 3.426 billion yuan.

Panzhihua is an important industrial town in the southwest of China, where large enterprises such as Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company and Panzhihua Coal Mine are located. The city's materials show that "industrial enterprises are seriously damaged, and the damaged area is expected to reach more than 70%". In addition, "there are 140 square kilometers of mined-out subsidence areas in the West District and Renhe District, involving 32,000 residents".

In this regard, the cadres of the Propaganda Department of Panzhihua Municipal Committee kept telling reporters that "the disaster in Panzhihua is the most serious", and many reporters were arranged by the Propaganda Department to interview in different disaster areas.

"The Panzhihua earthquake was not serious, but they shouted fiercely!" Qi Kaihong, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Huili County Committee, said.

"We knew about the Panzhihua earthquake and rushed to Panzhihua all the way, only to know that the real hardest hit area was in Huili, and we rushed to Huili." A volunteer from afar told reporters. He also told reporters that many volunteers, like him, watched the earliest news and went straight to Panzhihua. Some people understand like him, others go home or stay in Panzhihua.

The difference in donations after the earthquake is even greater.

By September 15, Panzhihua City had received a total of 39 197500 yuan, which was 1 1459300 yuan, while Yuanmou County only received 13 1000 yuan. According to the information provided by the three parties, the total population and affected population of the above three places are as follows: Panzhihua City 165438+ 10,000 people, and the affected population is 3 13000 people; There are 440,000 people in Huili County, and the affected population is 6.5438+0.03 million; There are 2 1 0.3 million people in Yuanmou county, and the affected population is110,000 people.

Let's talk about the tent reception in the three places first. As of September 15, Panzhihua has received 33,742 tents, Huili has received 22,322 tents and Yuanmou has received 4 tents100. The reporter saw that in the hardest hit area of Huili, when the villagers still lived in their own plastic greenhouses or tractors, tents in some blocks of Panzhihua City were empty. The street vendor next to him told the reporter: "There are generally no people during the day, and everything has moved away. When you sleep at night, if someone is worried, come to the tent. "

In this regard, a young man working in Panzhihua told reporters: "This is the same as competing for projects and resources. Whoever has high means will become a winner. "

San headquarters

Huili: Working in a dangerous house.

The frontline headquarters for earthquake relief that the reporter first saw is the office space of Huili County, located in the courtyard of the Working Committee of Li Xi District, the hardest hit area. Walking into the gate of the District Working Committee, two three-story office buildings stand opposite each other on both sides. Walking more than 20 meters along the aisle between the two floors is a small courtyard surrounded by brick-concrete bungalows. Three green tents were erected in the middle of the yard, which read "Front Command for Earthquake Relief". There was a long table inside, and a dozen people crowded in and out of the tent. The county party secretary and some cadres are already in a meeting.

The temporary news center is located in an office, and the words "There is a crack in the building, and there is danger here" are posted on the wall. Many reporters are busy going in and out. Rescuers are eating in the canteen of the former working Committee of the hospital, and people are crowded. After careful observation, the reporter found that there were also some cracks in the wall of this restaurant.

The reporters who came to interview were arranged by the news center in a small hotel on a small street. When passing by a small street, the reporter saw several houses collapse. The village with the most serious death in Huili County is in Xinqiao Village, which is less than one kilometer away. On the day of the earthquake, eight people were buried alive.

Yuanmou: Command Center of Flue-cured Tobacco Greenhouse

On September 5, the reporter went south from Huili and entered Jiangyi Township, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, where the disaster was the most serious. The "Yuanmou County Earthquake Relief Frontline Command" is not in the office building of the township government, but in a huge plastic shed. The reporter walked into the greenhouse with a full 30-meter-long desk and saw many people busy.

Lu, commander-in-chief of the front line of earthquake relief in Yuanmou County, told reporters that there are 25 greenhouses, each 50 meters long and 10 meters wide, which is 500 square meters. This used to be the flue-cured tobacco seedling shed of the National Tobacco Company. On the day of the earthquake, the government requisitioned these sheds and concentrated all the surrounding villagers here. The temporary medical center is located in the greenhouse. The reporter saw in the medical center that there were more than a dozen injured villagers lying on the hospital bed, and the medical staff were shuttling.

As the disaster relief tent arrived in time, all the villagers in Jiangyi Township received the tent, so most of the flue-cured tobacco greenhouses were idle. Still in use are headquarters, medical center, news center, electric power emergency repair center, etc. That night, the reporter and some other reporters who came to interview were arranged to lie on the floor in the shed of the news center.

In the evening, the reporter saw that the headquarters, the military, the police, the militia and the electric power were all in a meeting. In interviews with villages in Jiangyi Township, the reporter saw that "police tips" and "safety instructions for electricity use in temporary resettlement sites after the earthquake" were posted on every tent, and posters of "psychological assistance after the earthquake" were also posted on tents in many areas.

Panzhihua: a four-star hotel

On September 8, the second day after the reporter went to Panzhihua, the big sign of "Panzhihua Earthquake Relief emergency headquarters Office" was hung on the municipal government building. After registering, the reporter was told that the headquarters was in Room 302, but it was already 14: 45 pm, and the door of this office was still locked. Later, the staff in the office next door told me that the reporter was going to report to the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee for registration.

At the gate of the municipal party Committee, there are four security guards in gray uniforms, two on each side. After being questioned, the reporter was allowed to go upstairs. After checking the documents, the reporter was arranged to go to Panzhihua Hotel. "Our news center is in Pan Bin", a four-star hotel, and many journalists are arranged on the fourth floor. During the meal time, the people in the Propaganda Department will inform the reporters one by one to eat in the hotel restaurant, and each meal is about 10.

some problems

In the interview in the earthquake zone, in addition to the above phenomenon, there are still some problems that have attracted the attention of reporters.

According to international norms, earthquakes with a magnitude greater than or equal to 4.5 and less than 6 are called moderate earthquakes; Greater than or equal to 6, less than 7 is called a strong earthquake; Earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above are called major earthquakes, and earthquakes of magnitude 8 or above are called major earthquakes. Others are usually called small earthquakes.

Compared with Wenchuan earthquake, this earthquake is a small earthquake, and compared with ordinary small earthquakes, it is a big earthquake. Therefore, it is called "moderate" earthquake. In the face of similar earthquakes, most countries will not cause such serious damage. In the 20th century, there were more than 20 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above in the United States, and the total death toll was 1380. However, why did the 6. 1 earthquake at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan cause such serious damage?

Behind the collapse of many adobe houses

The earthquake caused houses in Huili, Yuanmou and Panzhihua 18352 to collapse and 428 175 to be seriously damaged. The reporter observed that the collapse of houses in Huili was the most tragic. Compared with Yuanmou and Panzhihua, farmers' housing in Huili is more humble. The housing of farmers in the disaster area is basically adobe houses or wooden frame houses, and the housing level of farmers is far from the other two places.

The reporter observed all the way that in the same earthquake zone, most houses with brick-concrete structure and houses with frame structure were basically intact. Adobe houses and wooden frame houses have not collapsed, and most of them have been severely torn, which basically belong to dangerous houses.

"The people are too poor, which is the primary reason why a large number of houses collapsed and casualties were so serious." Xiong Jiaxiang, engineer of Huili County Urban and Rural Construction Bureau, said.

Xiong Jiaxiang explained that Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is one of the poorest areas in Sichuan Province. For a long time, the people have no source of income, and it is difficult to transport only some cash crops out of the mountain, and it is even more difficult to sell them at a good price. Therefore, the people are very poor and can't afford to build brick houses, but only adobe houses.

There are three kinds of houses in the local countryside: adobe houses, wooden frame houses and brick-concrete structure houses.

Xiong Jiaxiang said that only farmers with good conditions can afford to build houses with brick-concrete structure. This time in the Huili earthquake zone, such houses did not collapse, but only accounted for 6%. Farmers with better conditions build wooden frame houses, that is, build wooden frames first and then build walls. The total collapse of such houses is relatively small, but even such houses only account for 19% in the disaster area.

Farmers with poor conditions can only build the simplest adobe houses, that is, "earth walls cover beams and blue tiles cover." Adobe houses in the whole disaster area account for 75%. It is this kind of adobe house that collapsed in a large area in this earthquake. Another factor is that the local soil is basically red sand, which has poor viscosity and is easily broken.

Huang Jianfa, director of the Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Department of the Seismological Bureau of China, told the media that the housing structure in the Panzhihua-Huili earthquake-stricken area is dominated by civil structures such as adobe houses and rammed earth houses, accounting for about 85%; Brick and wood structure accounts for about 10%, and other structures only account for 5%. However, the seismic performance of civil structure buildings is poor, and many through cracks, inclined displacement of walls and roof collapse are prone to occur after the earthquake.

In addition, this area is located in an earthquake-prone area, which is the key monitoring and defense area of China Seismological Bureau.

"Farmers are too poor to even build wooden houses, let alone build houses according to seismic standards! That is the wishful thinking of experts. " Xiong Jiaxiang added.

Many farmers in the disaster area live in some corners of high mountains and valleys. Many villages are not only blocked by roads, but also very difficult to walk by motorcycle. In addition, the earthquake caused the circuit to be interrupted, so many villages can only walk there. The reporter rushed to a volcano group where 24 people lived from the seat of Pingdi Town Government in Renhe District. It took local motorcyclists two hours to find it, and many local motorcyclists carried motorcycles through.

Another important factor is that people's awareness of earthquake resistance is generally weak.

After the "8.30" earthquake, an aftershock of magnitude 5.6 occurred the next day. However, most of the earthquake relief workers in Huili County still live and work in the office buildings and houses that have been identified as dangerous buildings in the compound of the Working Committee of Li Xi District, the hardest hit area. Leaders and ordinary staff gathered in the dining hall of the district working Committee for dinner, and the cracks were obvious. In addition, as of September 2008, there have been 15 and 18 aftershocks in the earthquake-stricken areas. As the aftershock of 3 1 day reached 5.6, causing new disasters, 7 people have been killed in Huili county.

On the one hand, this kind of "small earthquake damage" is closely related to the unreasonable location of rural residential buildings, improper building structure, poor quality of building materials, weak overall performance and low seismic capacity. It is also related to the weak awareness of earthquake resistance of the people and the government's failure to implement the standards for earthquake prevention construction.

Although the villagers in these areas have received the publicity materials for earthquake resistance and disaster reduction and the "Anti-earthquake Publicity Manual for Rural Houses" issued by the government in the past two years, the villagers just sent them there. "Few people read them!" "No one will do what this book says."

The speed and intensity of rescue

Compared with the earthquake relief in two provinces and three places, the rescue speed and intensity in Yuanmou County of Yunnan Province is the fastest and strongest.

After the earthquake on August 30th 16: 30, a rescue team from Yuanmou County, including medical, transportation, electric power, communication and material support, crossed the Jinsha River and arrived in Jiangyi Township, the hardest hit area.

That night, most villagers in Jiangyi Town were placed in 25 flue-cured tobacco greenhouses. The next morning, the vehicles carrying rice in the county arrived at the disaster area. The most powerful rescue force is the army. In Yuanmou County alone, two field troops participated in the rescue, namely the rescue team of an antiaircraft artillery regiment in Chengdu Military Region and the rescue team of the First Artillery Corps in Yunnan.

After the earthquake 18 hours, the rescue team of an anti-aircraft artillery regiment in Chengdu Military Region rushed to Jiangyi Township. By that night, more than 300 people from this group had entered the disaster area for emergency rescue. Su Xiaolin, head of the group, told reporters that by 6: 00 on September 6th, they had set up 65: 438+0: 653 tents for the disaster-stricken areas, accounting for 68% of the total tents set up in this township. "The transportation and loading and unloading of materials in disaster areas are basically undertaken by our department."

Yuanmou County has two most important disaster areas, one is Jiangyi Township and the other is Bian Jiang Township. The rescue team of a certain unit of the First Artillery Corps stationed in Yunnan came to Riverside Township, 165 people. They are well-equipped and have completed most of the rescue tasks in the township.

Relatively speaking, although the disaster situation in Huili County is more serious, a rescue team of 124 troops arrived at the scene of the disaster area on September 4. Fortunately, a medical team of 27 people was dispatched on September 65, 438+0. In addition to poor traffic, poor information is also an important factor in Huili's passive rescue. An official of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee told the reporter that people in Panzhihua and Yunnan have done a good job in propaganda and the information can be transmitted in time. We have the worst disaster here, but we have the least information. According to a cadre of the Propaganda Department, several Chengdu journalists who were supposed to interview with the medical team were temporarily instructed by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee to cancel their trips.

China News Service, Panzhihua, April 2 nd Title: Revisiting the hardest hit areas of the "August 30" earthquake: drought relief and reconstruction.

Author Xu Liu

After a two-hour bumpy ride, the reporter went to Youshala Ethnic Culture Village, Pingdi Town, Renhe District, Panzhihua, Sichuan, which was one of the hardest hit areas of the "8.30" earthquake in 2008.

Entering the village, a group of Yi elderly people dressed in national costumes sat under the tree at the entrance of the village, laughing and laughing. Although the reporter can't fully understand the Yi language, the old people warmly greet the reporter and try to communicate. The 82-year-old Qi Ruixian said slowly: "That year, the earthquake buried 40 cows in my family at the foot of the mountain, and our house collapsed. I have no money to repair the house, and Murakami has given us great support. You see, my house is going to be renovated. "

Not far from the village entrance, a pond about 10 meter long caught the reporter's attention. There is water about one meter deep in the pond, which is rare in mountainous areas where it hasn't rained for 190 days.

The villagers said it was not their drinking water. The introduction of Yin, the head of Izarra Ethnic Culture Village, solved the doubts in the reporter's mind. "These villages are all Yi Hui-style buildings, basically wooden structures, which are easy to cause fires. In case of fire, if there is no water on this mountain, it will be very dangerous. This pool is a fire pool, and the water inside can't be used casually. "

When it comes to the drought in the village, the village chief looks helpless. There are 572 households with a total of 2,267 people in Yishala village. The "August 30 earthquake" caused losses to every household in different degrees. 426 households in the village were rebuilt, and the rest 146 households strengthened their houses. "It was very difficult after the earthquake, and now it is dry. The crops in the field have been harvested, which makes the affected people worse." Yin said to.

Walking down the street, a new house with a completed main structure attracted the attention of reporters. When entering the courtyard, the host, Na Lu Xiu, warmly greeted the reporters. This is a new house with local folk customs. Lu Xiu said that all the wheat in her field was lost because of drought, and now there is no corn. "This year, due to the drought, all the vegetables I ate in the field were rejected. I haven't eaten fresh vegetables for a long time. Everything has to be bought in Pingdi Town. "

Lu Xiu said that at present, domestic water can still be met by some mountain springs on the mountain. If the drought persists, it's hard to say. "The Meteorological Observatory predicts that it will only rain in mid-June, and the mountain spring water can last for up to half a month. In the past two days, everyone is looking for new water sources to drill wells. "

Although the drought that lasted for half a year has brought another test to this new village after the earthquake, everyone living in Hansala is still full of hope for the future. "A few days ago, experts came to guide' water drought resistance'. Now rice is basically not planted, and it has been changed into drought-tolerant crops such as flue-cured tobacco, potatoes and peanuts. " In the face of a field that has been idle for a long time, Yin told reporters that every household is ready for farming, just waiting for the next heavy rain.

Just as the reporter was about to leave, several Yi people at the entrance of the village sang folk songs praying for rain, and their eyes showed their desire for rain.