Internal Security

PLA and People's Armed Police Officers and Soldiers, Militia Continue Fighting on the Rescue Front Line

解放军和武警部队官兵、民兵持续奋战救援一线

PLA Daily (解放军报) 10 July 2026

Summary

Following Typhoon Maysak's residual rainfall, Southern Theater Command Army units, the PAP Guangxi General Corps Mobile Detachment, the PAP Guigang Detachment, the Guangxi Military District, the Nanning Garrison, and the Wuzhou Military Sub-district collectively deployed more than 5,800 personnel across Guigang, Nanning, Wuzhou, and surrounding areas between July 8–9 to address embankment piping failures, mass evacuations at Xijiang Education Park, waterworks flooding, and highway blockage along National Highway 209. The article documents the standard multi-echelon disaster response structure in which Theater Command Army forces handle acute infrastructure threats, PAP mobile and garrison detachments execute sustained engineering tasks, and Military District militia provide the bulk of labor for silt-clearing and logistics — a division of roles that fits the post-2016 reform pattern of separating combat forces from civil-military support functions. The scale of militia mobilization (4,200-plus from the Guangxi Military District alone, with additional tranches from the Nanning Garrison) provides a concrete baseline for how quickly Guangxi's reserve mobilization apparatus can generate usable manpower for a provincial-level natural disaster.

Translation

PLA Daily, Nanning, July 9 — Affected by the residual circulation of Typhoon "Maysak," multiple areas in Guangxi have experienced sustained heavy rainfall, triggering severe flood and waterlogging disasters. Officers and soldiers of the PLA and the People's Armed Police (PAP), along with militia forces, have been continuously conducting emergency rescue and relief operations and post-disaster silt-clearing work in Guigang, Nanning, Wuzhou, and other locations, helping the public restore normal production and daily life.

On the evening of the 8th, due to sustained heavy rainfall, a piping failure (管涌) occurred at a reservoir embankment along the section from the Lizhan Railway to Hengling Village on the south bank of the Yu River in Guigang City. The Southern Theater Command Army deployed officers and soldiers to conduct inspection and assessment of key areas and to reinforce and seal the breach. Since the disaster struck, more than ten thousand teachers and students at the Xijiang Education Park in Guigang City have been trapped; officers and soldiers who rushed to the scene have been continuously evacuating teachers and students and transporting relief supplies. The Guangxi Military District deployed more than 4,200 officers, soldiers, and militia members to transfer trapped residents and clear silt and obstructions. A waterworks in Guigang City faced the risk of unit shutdown due to flooding of its pump room; the PAP Guangxi General Corps Mobile Detachment dispatched forces in an emergency response to seal and reinforce leakage points around the perimeter of the waterworks. Pingnan County's Da'an Town was struck by flooding, and the PAP Guigang Detachment organized officers and soldiers to participate in emergency rescue and relief operations.

In parts of Hengzhou City and Binyang County, accumulated waterlogging has not yet receded, and the risk of secondary disasters remains. On the afternoon of the 9th, the Nanning Garrison dispatched more than 600 additional militia members to Binyang County to participate in silt-clearing tasks, and organized more than 500 militia members to proceed separately to disaster-affected villages and towns to carry out supply delivery, road silt-clearing, and hazard inspection work. More than 560 officers and soldiers of the PAP Guangxi General Corps are executing silt-clearing and obstacle-removal tasks along the Hengzhou Yunbiao section of National Highway 209, clearing blocked roads.

Affected by heavy rainfall, floodwaters on the Wuzhou section of the Xi River have exceeded the warning level by three meters, and some townships have experienced internal waterlogging. The Wuzhou Military Sub-district rapidly dispatched militia forces to assist in reinforcing embankments and evacuating disaster-affected residents.

(Compiled from contributions by Yang Baolü, Wang Jianan, Tang Zixing, Huang Yuanli, Zhang Zhipan, and reporter Chen Xiaojie, among others)

Original Chinese

解放军报南宁7月9日电受台风“美莎克”残余环流影响，广西多地持续强降雨并引发严重洪涝灾害。解放军和武警部队官兵、民兵在贵港、南宁、梧州等地，持续进行抢险救援，开展灾后清淤工作，帮助群众恢复生产生活秩序。 8日晚，因持续暴雨影响，贵港市郁江南岸黎湛铁路至横岭村段水库堤坝出现一处管涌。南部战区陆军出动官兵对重点区域进行巡查检视、加固封堵。灾情发生以来，贵港市西江教育园区万余名师生被困，赶赴救援的官兵持续转移师生、运送救援物资。广西军区出动官兵、民兵4200余名，转移被困群众、清淤除障。贵港市一水厂因泵房漫水面临机组瘫痪风险，武警广西总队机动支队调派兵力紧急驰援，对水厂外围渗漏点进行封堵加固。平南县大安镇遭受洪水侵袭，武警贵港支队组织官兵投入抢险救援。横州市、宾阳县部分地区积涝未消，存在发生次生灾害风险。9日下午，南宁警备区向宾阳县增派600余名民兵参与清淤任务，并组织500余名民兵分赴受灾村镇，开展物资投送、道路清淤、险情排查等工作。武警广西总队560余名官兵，位209国道横州云表路段执行清淤清障任务，疏通受阻道路。受强降雨影响，西江梧州段洪水超警戒水位3米，部分乡镇发生内涝。梧州军分区迅速派出民兵，帮助加固堤坝、转移受灾群众。（综合杨宝律、王嘉男、唐资兴、黄远利、张志攀，记者陈晓杰等来稿）