Internal Security

PLA and Armed Police Forces Personnel and Militia Launch Emergency Rescue Operations

解放军和武警部队官兵、民兵展开抢险救援

PLA Daily (解放军报) 15 July 2026

Summary

Following heavy rainfall from Typhoon Bavi and a separate storm in Gansu on July 13–14, the Xiahe County People's Armed Forces Department, the Armed Police Gannan Detachment (200+ personnel), a Northern Theater Command Army brigade (300+ personnel), the Armed Police Tonghua Detachment, the Shenyang Garrison, and the Armed Police Liaoning Corps (900+ personnel) conducted concurrent flood relief operations across Gansu, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces. The article documents the standard multi-echelon domestic disaster response structure — county-level PAFDs activating militia for initial assessment and evacuation, followed by Armed Police detachments and PLA brigades deploying for engineering tasks — and provides a named-unit, named-location baseline for how Northern Theater Command and Armed Police regional formations are tasked and scaled during a mid-tier typhoon event.

Translation

On July 14, personnel of the Tonghua Detachment of the Armed Police Force transport sandbags at the front line of emergency operations to seal off a piping breach. Photo by Zhang Guoqing.

PLA Daily, Lanzhou, July 14 — At approximately 19:00 on the 13th, heavy rainfall struck Xiahe County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, causing silt accumulation in the county seat, blocked drainage outlets, and varying degrees of disaster in some townships and villages.

At 22:00 that evening, the Xiahe County People's Armed Forces Department dispatched militia to Madang Town and Qu'ao Township, which had received heavier rainfall, to assess conditions on the ground and evacuate trapped residents. On the 14th, more than 200 personnel of the Armed Police Gannan Detachment, equipped with emergency rescue equipment, proceeded to the affected areas to clear silt, drain floodwater, and unblock drainage pipe networks.

As of press time, accumulated water on the county seat's main roads had been fully drained, and task force personnel and militia continued road silt-clearing operations.

(Compiled from dispatches by Zhang Wei, reporters Zhang Leifeng, Wu Shitao, and Li Haoqi, and special correspondent Jia Baohua, among others.)

PLA Daily, Shenyang, July 14 — Affected by Typhoon Bavi, the 9th typhoon of this year, multiple locations in Liaoning and Jilin provinces experienced heavy rainfall, with serious waterlogging occurring in some urban districts and townships. PLA and Armed Police Forces personnel and militia have continued to engage in emergency disaster relief while simultaneously carrying out post-disaster recovery work.

On the 14th, water levels along the Huifa River in Hailong Town, Meihekou City, Jilin Province, rose rapidly. More than 300 personnel from a brigade of the Northern Theater Command Army, together with local militia, sealed and reinforced vulnerable points to strictly prevent river water from overflowing. The Tonghua Detachment of the Armed Police Force dispatched personnel to clear blockages and evacuate and resettle trapped residents. Piping breaches appeared in sections of the river embankment along the Huinan reach of the Huifa River, and the Tonghua Detachment of the Armed Police Force dispatched forces to conduct emergency sealing operations.

In Shenyang, Liaoning Province, sections of the Hunhe River, Puhe River, and other rivers faced risks of embankment overtopping. The Shenyang Garrison organized militia to load and transport sandbags and reinforce river embankments. The Armed Police Liaoning Corps deployed more than 900 personnel to reinforce embankments at the Wuniubaoze section of the Puhe River, the Liaozhong section, the Guanghui Subdistrict section in Yuhong District, and the Changtan section of the Hunhe River, among other locations, eliminating multiple dangerous situations.

Original Chinese

7月14日，武警通化支队官兵在抢险一线搬运沙袋封堵管涌。张国卿摄解放军报兰州7月14日电13日19时许，甘肃甘南藏族自治州夏河县出现强降雨，县城淤泥堆积、排水口堵塞，部分乡镇不同程度受灾。当晚22时，夏河县人武部派出民兵，赶赴降雨量较大的麻当镇、曲奥乡，查看现地情况、转移被困群众。14日，武警甘南支队200余名官兵携带抢险救援器材，赶赴受灾区域清淤排涝、疏通排水管网。截至发稿时，县城主干道积水已排尽，任务部队官兵、民兵继续进行道路清淤。（综合张维，记者张磊峰、武诗韬、李浩琦，特约记者贾保华等来稿）解放军报沈阳7月14日电受今年第9号台风“巴威”影响，辽宁、吉林多地遭遇强降雨，部分城区、乡镇发生严重内涝。解放军和武警部队官兵、民兵持续投入抢险救灾，同步开展灾后恢复工作。 14日，吉林梅河口市海龙镇辉发河沿线水位快速上涨。北部战区陆军某旅300余名官兵，联合当地民兵封堵加固隐患点位，严防河水漫灌。武警通化支队派出官兵清理淤堵，转移安置被困群众。辉发河辉南段部分河堤出现管涌，武警通化支队派出力量紧急封堵。辽宁沈阳市浑河、蒲河等河流部分河段出现漫堤风险，沈阳警备区组织民兵装运沙袋、加固河堤，武警辽宁总队出动900余名官兵，分别对蒲河乌牛堡子段、辽中段、于洪区光辉街道段，以及浑河长滩段等处河堤进行加固，排除多处险情。