Special topic: unity is strength, freezing disaster prevention
Xinhuanet Changsha, February 8 (Reporter Tan Jian, Ding Wenjie) The north wind roared and snowflakes danced. A rare ice and snow disaster in history froze three Hunan and four waters.
More than 20 days of violent storms have caused the Beijing-Guangzhou railway line to be interrupted, the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, the north-south artery, has been paralyzed, more than 30,000 vehicles and more than 80,000 people have been forced to stay, the whole cities of Chenzhou and Hengyang have been cut off from electricity and water, and Hunan’s main power grid is in jeopardy!
At present, the most urgent task is "access, power conservation and safety". For this common goal, the cadres and the masses in Hunan Province mobilized urgently, and the four provinces of Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Guangxi joined hands to help each other. After the full efforts of the broad masses of soldiers and civilians, the ice melted, the snow melted, the roads opened and the electricity came …
Great rescue: ice and snow are ruthless and people are affectionate.
The sudden freezing disaster blocked the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, the north-south artery of our country. More than 30,000 vehicles lined up for more than 190 kilometers, and more than 80,000 drivers and passengers were trapped. Countless children, women and the elderly are trapped. In the world of ice and snow, their fate touches everyone’s heart.
On January 25, the disaster was urgent. Zhang Chunxian, secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, and Zhou Qiang, governor of Hunan Province, held a meeting overnight to rescue people trapped in vehicles. Hunan province ordered the government along the highway to organize armed police, reserve troops and cadres to provide food, boiled water and blankets to the stranded people free of charge, and to transfer the old, weak, sick and disabled people to the nearest towns.
While rescuing passengers, police cars in Hunan Province cleared the way, guiding traffic icebreakers to break ice and snow, and getting through the southbound passage as soon as possible to guide trapped passengers. Tens of thousands of traffic police in the province are on the road to divert vehicles. From January 14th to 30th, Hunan Expressway invested 40,000 person-times, 3,496 vehicles, 917 construction equipment, more than 440,000 sacks and straw bags, and more than 6,000 tons of salt and gravel to make the stranded vehicles move forward as soon as possible.
The paralyzed Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway has become a "parking lot" spreading for hundreds of kilometers. Some passengers have been trapped for days without eating. Many children and old people who went south to Guangdong to reunite with their families for the New Year are very tired, and they have been trapped for days, making some people sick.
Special period, special power. The ice and snow froze the way home, awakening the love of the whole society. Inspired by the special spirit of the special period, the whole society took action and extended a helping hand to the trapped drivers and passengers in its own way. On the frozen highway, party committees and governments at all levels, as well as road administration departments, traffic police and news media, have become the hopes of the trapped people in the cold winter. Calls for help have come like snowflakes, and touching stories of saving lives and solving problems are staged every day.
Some people in Hunan sent hot lunch boxes and boiled water. A group of strangers organized a "Red Palm Rescue Meeting" through the Internet, and collected a group of quilts, hats, gloves, blankets, food, medicines and other materials urgently needed by the trapped people. They rented a car and rushed to the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway to distribute them to the trapped people overnight.
Due to the long-term detention, the drivers and passengers’ mobile phones have long been dead, and they have lost contact with their families. These netizens asked the passengers to write down their messages and home phone numbers, and after returning, they called home for the trapped people to report their safety.
Their actions have been supported by netizens all over the country, and more and more materials have been donated and transported to the disaster areas. A netizen wrote: "The coldness and suspicion between people face to face are melted by sincerity and kindness here. I burst into tears again and again. There is always a warm place in this cold. "
Great diversion: the way to get through life
If the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway is the north-south traffic artery in China, then the Hunan section is the "heart" of this artery. The Hunan section of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, with a total length of 532 kilometers, runs through the north and south and connects the east and west, and is the hub of material transportation in North China, Central China, South China and Southwest China. Once something goes wrong with this north-south artery, it will affect the normal operation of the national traffic.
It is understood that the traffic volume of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway is designed according to 22,500-28,400 standard cars per day, but the traffic volume has been increasing at an average annual rate of 20% since its completion. The freezing rain and snow for more than 10 days in a row has made the already burdened Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway face the danger of paralysis.
On January 28th, in Hengyang section, the most congested section of Hunan section of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, the long queue stretched for tens of kilometers. Although there were traffic police along the line to maintain traffic order, the vehicles were still "crawling". At this time, a new round of snow and ice weather is coming. In this case, it is obviously impossible to get through the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway in a short time.
In order to evacuate the crowded traffic as soon as possible, it is imperative to open up a "second passage". On the 28th, Zhang Chunxian, the former secretary of Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Minister of Communications, contacted the main leaders of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee and government, and decided to join hands with the two provinces to divert the vehicles stranded in the south of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway to enter the western part of Guangdong via Hengzao Expressway and Quanzhou Bypass in Guangxi.
In order to solve the worries of drivers and passengers, Hunan and Guangxi provinces announced that they would implement the "four noes policy" of no fine, no unloading, no inspection and no charge for vehicles taking the "second passage", and at the same time, Hunan Province would subsidize 200 yuan fuel fee for each vehicle and distribute the "diversion road map" to every driver and passenger.
At the interchange of Hongshi, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, a large-scale propaganda slogan that reads "Go to Hengzao, go home early" was passed by large vehicles in an orderly manner. In order to keep the "second passage" unblocked, Hunan Province has almost gathered the strength of the whole province. Zhang Chunxian, secretary of the provincial party committee, and Zhou Qiang, governor, visited Hongshi Interchange Line to persuade the stranded vehicles to be diverted as soon as possible. Each stranded vehicle received a schematic diagram marked with a specific route. All counties and cities along the line have also mobilized, and hundreds of thousands of cadres and masses have been sweeping snow and deicing along the road day and night to ensure the smooth flow of this "lifeline".
After the "second passage" was successfully opened, the Hunan section of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway was basically connected, but new problems emerged. As all the border crossings between Hubei and Hunan were opened, the number of vehicles going south along the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway suddenly increased, and the once-unblocked Linchang section of the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway once again experienced heavy traffic detention.
On February 1, the Hunan section of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway was once again tight. In order to further reduce the pressure on the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, Hunan Province and Jiangxi Province urgently negotiated to continue to organize and implement the diversion of Hengzao Expressway and National Highway 107, and quickly opened up a "third passage" for southbound vehicles, that is, entering Jiangxi through the Taotan Expressway in Hunan Province and diverting vehicles and personnel to Meizhou, Huizhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan in eastern Guangdong. For vehicles passing through Jiangxi, the "four noes policy" of no fines, no unloading, no inspection and no charges is also implemented. At this point, the Hunan section of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway has formed a cross-provincial exchange of "one line, two wings and time-sharing segmentation".
According to the reporter’s understanding, due to the timely implementation of diversion, from January 29 to 12: 00 on February 3, the number of vehicles diverted to Guangxi by Hengzao Expressway has reached 19,000; More than 30,000 vehicles diverted to Guangdong via National Highway 107; The "third passage" opened in the early morning of February 2 diverted about 3,000 vehicles that day, greatly reducing the pressure on the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway.
In the Nanling section of Chenzhou, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, after nearly 10 arduous ice-breaking battles day and night, on February 4, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway finally achieved a full-line connection.
According to incomplete statistics, in this battle, more than 300,000 cadres and workers in Hunan Province took to the road and organized 60,000 deicing machines. More than 82,000 troops stationed in Hunan, armed police, fire and reserve officers and soldiers have been dispatched to fight day and night, breaking more than 500 kilometers of ice and urgently transporting more than 500 tons of various materials.
