Chapter 117: Flood Relief in China

The weather forecast is obviously not so fast, and Luo Tiancheng doesn't expect a phone call to convince the No. 1 leader, after all, this order will cost countless manpower and material resources for national mobilization. Luo Tiancheng guessed that the No. 1 leader would not move so quickly.

Anyway, you don't move, Luo Tian CD has to move in advance, 91 years, in order to support the daily necessities of Novosibirsk, Luo Xingchen is responsible for the Xingchen Group simply across the country, to achieve the beginning of the chain supermarket, plus the Xingchen Group has strong funds, the buildings of the chain supermarket are built by the Xingchen Group itself, until May 1998, there are nearly 400 large supermarkets in China, basically covering the country's major provinces and cities and famous counties and towns.

With the improvement of the living standards of the Chinese people, the annual profit collected by Xingchen Supermarket, a branch of Xingchen Group, reached nearly 700 million RMB, which is an amazing data, which is still in 98 years, Luo Tiancheng just took advantage of this advantage, so that Xingchen Supermarket fully reserves water, tents and quilts, as well as medical supplies. Although the heads of the major supermarkets were puzzled, the orders issued by the headquarters must be obeyed.

In May '98, a steady stream of orders were placed in the required commodity factories, which made the major manufacturers happy.

Since mid-June, the flow of the Yangtze River has increased rapidly due to heavy rains and heavy rains in Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake. Due to the combined influence of upstream water and tidal floods, the tide level along the river has exceeded the warning water level since June 25. Nanjing station high ~ tide level reached 9.90 meters on July 6.

Due to the high tide level along the river, the drainage of inland rivers is blocked, resulting in a severe situation of external flood and internal waterlogging. The highest water level at Dongshan Station of Qinhuai River is 10.28 meters, ranking third in history, and the highest water level of Xiaoqiao Station of Chuhe River is 11.29 meters, exceeding the warning water level by 1.79 meters.

At this time, the Meteorological Bureau took the forecast report and went directly to the No. 1 summit office, crying: "Chief, it's true, the forecast of Novosibirsk in the hairy bear country is true, this year will indeed cause the same catastrophic flood in 54 years, and even exceeded, we have analyzed the current situation in China with experts from the hairy bear country, and now the domestic vegetation is seriously damaged, and the impact will exceed expectations, unprecedented!! ”

"According to statistics, the flood storage capacity in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has decreased significantly compared with 1954, and the total amount of flood outlets in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River reached 102.3 billion cubic meters in 1954, compared with only 10 billion cubic meters in 1998; Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the area of lakes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has decreased by about 10,000 square kilometers, and the volume of Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake has been reduced by more than 18 billion cubic meters due to siltation and reclamation."

After the first head of the head of the first meeting, he urgently convened a meeting of the political ~ bureau standing ~ of the headquarters to give the forecast and analysis of the meteorological observatory and foreign Novosibirsk to everyone present, Deng Gong also participated in the meeting, and finally unanimously made a decision, regardless of whether it is true or not, let the whole country mobilize, do a good job in flood relief, and urgently transfer the people and evacuate the people in the predicted ~ areas where flood disasters will occur. Since there is a possibility, and the probability is very high, in the face of national disasters, you can't be a sinner for the ages!

Although the situation is not so serious, the signs have already appeared, and the work of fighting floods and preparing for disasters has been carried out according to the situation in various places.

From June 28 to July 20, the main rain area moved to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. On July 2, Yichang experienced its first flood peak, with a flow of 54,500 cubic meters per second. The water of Jianli, Wuxue, Jiujiang and other hydrological stations exceeded the highest water level in history on July 4.

By July 18, Yichang had a second flood peak with a flow of 55,900 cubic meters per second. During this period, due to the small amount of water from the Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake systems, the water level of the main stream of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River dropped for a time. From July 21 to 31, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River experienced a wide range of heavy rainfall again.

From July 21 to 23, heavy rain fell in Wuhan City and its surrounding areas in Hubei Province;

On July 24, a major flood occurred in the Yuanjiang River and Lishui River of the Dongting Lake system, of which the peak flow of the Shimen Hydrological Station in Lishui was 19,900 cubic meters per second, which was the second major flood in this century. At the same time, the Xinjiang River and Le'an River in the Poyang Lake system also experienced major floods;

On July 24, Yichang experienced a third flood peak, with a flow of 51,700 cubic meters per second. The water level in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River rose rapidly, and after July 26, the water level of Shishou, Jianli, Lianhuatang, Luoshan, Chenglingji, Hukou and other hydrological stations exceeded the highest water level in history again.

In August, the water level in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the two lakes remained high, and there were 5 flood peaks in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, of which 3 flood peaks occurred in a row in 10 days on August 7~17, resulting in the continuous increase in the water level in the middle reaches.

"All of us are united, we are united"!

State leaders have gone to the front line of flood fighting on many occasions to direct rescue efforts and comfort the affected people.

The General Department of National Defense and the Ministry of Water Resources have dispatched a number of expert groups to various flood control frontlines on several occasions to guide the flood control work such as the defense of embankments.

According to statistics, more than 8 million cadres and people participated in the flood fight across the country; The People's Army and the People's Armed Police Force have mobilized 66 divisions, brigades, and armed police corps, totaling 274,000 troops.

On August 23, 1998, the armed forces and armed police forces had invested 4,332,200 troops, organized more than 5 million militia reserve troops, mobilized 236,800 vehicles, 37,500 boats, and 128~9 airplanes and helicopters.

Among them, on 24 August, the total number of troops deployed by the whole army and the armed police force to fight floods and rescue people has reached 276,000, which is the largest number of troops assembled on the Yangtze River since the battle of crossing the Yangtze River.

At the same time, people from all over the country also raised money and materials for the disaster area, and another slogan at that time was "When one side is in trouble, all sides will support", and the family was not rich at that time, but like all families, they donated money and materials to the disaster area.

Outside Chinese mainland, compatriots from the Hong Kong Governor, who experienced the 97 financial turmoil, but with the help of mysterious funds, won a big victory and donated 180 million yuan, followed by 100 million Taiwan dollars and 80 million Singapore dollars.

Xingyi Group donated NT$1 billion to the Xingchen Charity Foundation, Xingchen Group donated a large number of tents, daily necessities, water and medical supplies and 1 billion RMB to the Xingchen Charity Foundation, Novosibirsk donated 100 million rupees to the Xingchen Charity Foundation, and Xingyue Organization donated 100 million Franklin to the Xingchen Charity Foundation.

"ZG Investment Company" donated 300 million Franklin to the Xingchen Charity Foundation, Luo Tiancheng composed the song "Together Through the Storm" in the way of mysterious Luo, and the stars sang, and all the funds obtained were used for earthquake relief, and the Liu's Group donated 200 million Franklin to the Xingchen Charity Foundation alone, and then mobilized the Chinese in the United States to donate nearly 100 million Franklin.

Now the Chinese people donate or recognize a cross of the Chinese government, but the Xingchen Charity Foundation has received donations of more than 7 billion RMB, because the Xingchen Charity Foundation uses all transparent methods, and a cross uses all the ways are black-box operations, slowly foreign people and enterprises have put money into the Xingchen Charity Foundation, no one is stupid ~ son.

On September 2, the water level of the main stream of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River began to fall across the board. The section of the Yangtze River from Ezhou to Xiaochikou was reopened to navigation, with a cumulative suspension of 37 days.

On September 7, the section from Shishou to Wuhan on the main stream of the Yangtze River resumed navigation, and the main stream of the Yangtze River resumed navigation for a maximum period of 43 days. On 22 September, all the officers and men of the army and the armed police force who participated in the flood fighting and rescue were evacuated to the front line of flood fighting.

On September 25, the water level in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River fell below the warning level.

On 28 September, the National Flood Fighting and Rescue Summary and Commendation Conference was held in Beijing, announcing that the struggle against floods and rescue had achieved a comprehensive victory.

A total of 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) have suffered from floods of varying degrees. According to the statistics of various provinces, 22.29 million hectares (334 million mu) of farmland were affected, 13.78 million hectares (207 million mu) were affected, 150 people died, 6.85 million houses collapsed, and direct economic losses of 255.1 billion yuan. Huaguo, which should have killed thousands of people, lost only 150 people in this time, basically in remote mountainous areas, and those who did not come to inform the evacuees, or were accidentally involved themselves.

With the use of funds from the Star Charitable Foundation, post-war reconstruction work has begun.

The only bad side is that the vested interests of a certain Cross Society saw that the Star Charity Foundation had raised nearly 10 times more funds than themselves, and their eyes began to turn red while secretly unhappy.