Exercises Internal Security

A Subordinate Brigade of the PAP 1st Mobile Corps Conducts Day-and-Night Drill to Forge Disaster Relief and Rescue Capabilities

武警第一机动总队某支队跨昼夜演练锤炼抢险救援硬功

PLA Daily (解放军报) 12 May 2026

Summary

A subordinate brigade of the People's Armed Police 1st Mobile Corps conducted a day-and-night emergency rescue drill timed to China's 18th National Disaster Prevention and Reduction Day, exercising scenarios including bridge damage, building collapse, and personnel recovery in unfamiliar terrain, with specialist detachments integrating pontoon bridging, road engineering, UAV reconnaissance, and urban search-and-rescue into modular combined units. The drill's explicit goal of breaking down inter-detachment coordination barriers and its use of scenarios drawn from the brigade's own prior rescue missions indicates a deliberate effort to convert operational experience into standardized combined-arms rescue doctrine. The announcement is routine in format but is useful as evidence that PAP mobile corps units are systematically developing multi-domain disaster response capabilities that would also be applicable to civil emergency missions requiring rapid force projection.

Translation

On the occasion of the 18th National Disaster Prevention and Reduction Day, a subordinate brigade of the People's Armed Police 1st Mobile Corps organized a day-and-night emergency rescue and relief drill in unfamiliar terrain, using a sudden natural disaster as the exercise backdrop. The drill simulated emergencies including bridge damage, building collapse, and personnel trapped and buried, comprehensively forging officers and soldiers' capabilities in emergency response (应急处突), combined operations, and rapid reaction under complex conditions.

Drilling officers and soldiers organize vehicle formations. Photo by Li Mingheng

Drilling officers and soldiers conduct long-distance motorized movement. Photo by Li Mingheng

"This drill was driven throughout by actual combat standards; all mission scenarios restored real rescue sites, with focused effort on improving officers and soldiers' comprehensive rescue capabilities in complex environments." The brigade's leadership introduced that the mission scenarios for this drill were independently constructed by officers and soldiers using field terrain, and that the scenarios reproduced actual situations the brigade had encountered in previous rescue missions, ensuring that training closely mirrors actual combat.

As orders were issued, each specialist detachment moved swiftly and coordinated with one another, staging a tense and orderly "life-or-death rescue." "A powerful earthquake has struck a certain location; the situation is extremely urgent—all officers and soldiers are to commence operations immediately!" Upon receiving the order, each vehicle crew rapidly deployed and raced toward the target area, officially opening the day-and-night emergency rescue and relief drill.

Drilling officers and soldiers erect a bridge. Photo by Li Mingheng

During the drill, the brigade broke down barriers between detachments, integrated specialist capabilities including pontoon bridging and road engineering, and built modular rescue units to achieve coordinated linkage among all elements: the pontoon bridge detachment took the lead in operating unmanned aerial vehicles for forward reconnaissance and assessment, accurately determining road damage conditions; ground teams raced against time and worked efficiently to urgently erect mechanized bridges, successfully opening a life-saving rescue corridor; the road detachment operating at the foot of the mountain simultaneously launched operations, urgently constructing wooden support and protective frameworks to strictly guard against secondary disasters such as landslides; excavators and dump trucks roared continuously, with operators clearly divided in their duties and working in seamless coordination, as the clearing of road collapse debris proceeded in a tense and orderly manner, removing obstacles for the subsequent delivery of rescue forces.

Drilling officers and soldiers breach and demolish a damaged wall. Photo by Li Mingheng

Drilling officers and soldiers use a snake-eye endoscope to search for and rescue casualties. Photo by Li Mingheng

At the search and rescue site, facing the complex environment of tilted buildings and broken walls left in the wake of the "earthquake," the Party member vanguard team charged to the front, relying on professional rescue equipment to precisely locate trapped personnel, flexibly applying skills such as breaching and demolition and search and rescue, successfully rescuing "casualties" from the hazardous area and rapidly transferring them to a safe area for follow-on treatment.

This day-and-night emergency rescue and relief drill not only cleared the coordination "bottlenecks" (梗阻) between specialist detachments and comprehensively tested officers and soldiers' search and rescue, response, and coordination capabilities in complex environments, but also effectively improved the force's rapid reaction level in responding to sudden disasters, laying a solid foundation for carrying out diversified emergency rescue and relief missions.

Original Chinese

在第18个全国防灾减灾日来临之际，武警第一机动总队某支队以突发自然灾害为背景，模拟桥梁损毁、房屋坍塌、人员被困埋压等险情，在陌生地域组织跨昼夜抢险救援演练，全面锤炼官兵在复杂环境下的应急处突、协同作战和快速反应能力。演练官兵正在组织车辆编队。李明恒摄演练官兵正在长途机动。李明恒摄 “此次演练全程以实战为牵引，任务场景均还原真实救援现场，着力提升官兵复杂环境下的综合救援能力。”该支队领导介绍，此次演练的任务场景由官兵们依托野外地形自主构建，任务场景还原的是该支队在历次救援任务中遇到过的真实情况，确保训练紧贴实战。随着指令下达，各专业分队迅速行动、协同配合，上演了一场紧张有序的“生死救援”。“某地发生强震，形势十分紧急，全体官兵立即展开行动！”接到指令后，各车组迅速出动，向目标地域疾驰而去，一场跨昼夜抢险救援演练正式拉开帷幕。演练官兵正在架设桥梁。李明恒摄演练官兵正在架设桥梁。李明恒摄演练官兵正在架设桥梁。李明恒摄演练中，该支队打破分队壁垒，统筹舟桥、道路等专业力量，构建模块化救援单元，实现各要素协同联动：舟桥分队率先操控无人机进行前端侦察与处置，精准掌握道路受损情况；地面班组争分夺秒、高效作业，紧急架设机械化桥梁，成功打通生命救援通道；山脚下的道路分队同步展开行动，紧急搭建木质支撑防护架，严密防范山体滑坡等次生灾害；挖掘机、自卸车轰鸣不断，作业人员分工明确、配合默契，道路坍塌物清理工作紧张有序推进，为后续救援力量投送扫清障碍。演练官兵破拆受损墙面。李明恒摄演练官兵使用蛇眼内窥镜搜救伤员。李明恒摄在搜救现场，面对“震后”倾斜房屋、断壁残垣等复杂环境，党员先锋队冲锋在前，依托专业救援装备，精准排查被困人员位置，灵活运用破拆、搜救等技能，在危险区域成功搜救出“伤员”，并将其快速转运至安全区域进行后续处置。此次跨昼夜抢险救援演练，不仅打通了各专业分队间的协同“梗阻”，全面检验了官兵复杂环境下的搜救、处置和协同能力，更有效提升了部队应对突发灾害的快速反应水平，为遂行多样化抢险救援任务打下了坚实基础。