PLA and People's Armed Police Officers and Soldiers, and Militia Go All Out in Emergency Rescue Operations
PLA Daily Report — Affected by Typhoon "Bebinca" (No. 13 of this year), our country has experienced heavy rainfall in multiple locations over consecutive days, with some areas suffering varying degrees of disaster. To safeguard the lives and property of the people, PLA and People's Armed Police (PAP) officers and soldiers, and militia have gone all out in emergency rescue operations.
On the evening of August 10, waterlogging occurred in Zhujiajiao Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai, trapping some residents in their homes. Officers and soldiers from a brigade of the PAP Shanghai General Corps rushed to the scene, navigating assault boats through the streets, conducting door-to-door inspections, and helping trapped residents evacuate safely.
From the 10th to the 11th, southern Jiangsu experienced sustained heavy rainfall. The garrison commands (军分区) and people's armed forces departments (人武部) of Suzhou and Wuxi rapidly activated emergency plans, organizing militia to quickly clear drainage channels and remove debris from roads. Faced with rapidly rising water levels in some areas, local militia used sandbags to construct water-blocking cofferdams to seal breaches, and with the aid of professional drainage equipment, successfully eliminated the danger.
Affected by the typhoon, from the night of the 11th to the morning of the 12th, Yuhuan City, Zhejiang Province, experienced widespread torrential rain, with localized extreme torrential rain. Serious waterlogging accumulated in multiple low-lying areas of the city, trapping some residents. The Yuhuan City People's Armed Forces Department organized militia emergency forces for an urgent deployment, rushing overnight to the severely affected Chumen Town to conduct a dragnet-style (拉网式) inspection, evacuate trapped residents, and deliver emergency food supplies. After several hours of hard work, the militia evacuated more than 120 trapped residents.
As the remnant circulation of Typhoon "Bebinca" moved northward and westward, Hubei, Hebei, and other provinces experienced heavy precipitation. On the evening of the 11th, the water level of Guanshan River in Guanshan Town, Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province, rose rapidly, inundating multiple road sections along Provincial Road 280. The Danjiangkou City People's Armed Forces Department organized militia forces overnight to assist the local government in road control and blockade operations, helping evacuate more than 400 residents from Guanshan Town. To ensure safe passage through the flood season (安全度汛), the Yicheng City People's Armed Forces Department organized militia forces to move into dangerous sections of the Han River and flood-prone areas nearby, conducting 24-hour levee patrols and hazard inspections and rushing to build secondary levees (子堤) in coordination with professional rescue forces.
The Hebei Provincial Military District closely monitored rainfall and flood conditions, called on militia throughout the province to actively participate on the front lines of flood prevention, and guided Shijiazhuang, Langfang, Xingtai, Handan, and other localities to mobilize more than 5,000 militia members. They conducted safety hazard inspections at key points including low-lying flood-prone areas, riverbanks, and pond dams; pre-positioned more than 40,000 units (pieces/sets) of flood-control materials; and assisted local governments in evacuating and relocating nearly 10,000 residents.
(Compiled from contributions by Chen Zeyang, Li Yang, Fang Fang, Chen Yichen, and Zhou Xin; reporters Lü Xiaobo, Guo Zhongzheng, Xiang Liming, and Lu Dongfang)
Currently, our country is in the critical period of flood prevention known as "the latter part of July and the first part of August" (七下八上), and flood prevention work faces complex and severe challenges. Confronting this "major test" (大考) bearing on the lives and property of the people, the broad ranks of Party member cadres in the military must both maintain the sense of responsibility of "never being able to set one's mind at ease at any moment" (时时放心不下) and possess the solid capability of "having a firm grasp of every matter" (事事心中有底).
"Never being able to set one's mind at ease at any moment" manifests a sincere commitment to putting the people first and life first, and an ever-vigilant sense of hardship awareness (忧患意识) that never relaxes for an instant; it demands that Party member cadres, in the face of complex and ever-changing flood conditions, resolutely overcome complacency and carelessness. "Having a firm grasp of every matter" embodies a pragmatic work style of responding scientifically and the professional competence of fulfilling one's duties and responsibilities — anticipating risks ahead of time and doing work down to the finest details. Only when both thinking and capability are solid can a firm defensive line be built to protect the lives and property of the people.
Flood prevention and disaster relief is a hard battle. Units assigned to the mission must, on the one hand, estimate difficulties more fully, think through risks more deeply, and prepare response measures more comprehensively; on the other hand, they must have a thorough command of the hydrological terrain and risk points within their area of operations, be proficient in emergency plans and rescue procedures, and precisely allocate material reserves and rescue forces — ensuring that at the first order they can deploy immediately, respond scientifically, and conduct rescue operations efficiently, so as to live up to the trust placed in them and not fail in their mission.