Panjan Giang City, Bac Giang Province, is a city located at the junction of Song An and Bac Giang provinces. It has jurisdiction over two districts and six counties, with a total population of about 4.2 million. Because it is a city that has developed along with the economic development of Song An Province and the population transportation of Bac Giang Province, the urban construction is relatively advanced. It is 420 kilometers from Jiangbei City, the capital of Bac Giang Province, but only 83 kilometers from Ninh Ninh Ninh. The two cities are adjacent to each other, and the economic and trade interaction between them is even closer than that of Ningyuan and Changning. Due to the proximity between the two places, many people in Ningyuan will even choose to buy a house in Jiangbei City and settle down, and then drive to Ningyuan to work.

Because of this, Panjiang City has attracted a large number of young people who have just come to Ningyuan to work hard. These young people make up nearly one-third of Bac Giang's population. The spending power they bring has greatly contributed to the local economic development. The young and spending power group has also stimulated the night market and other consumption upgrades in Panjiang City. In order to further expand the advantages of this hard-won exchange, the local government also deliberately expanded the riverside road on the side of the Beijiang River. A new trail along the river with a width of 30 meters and a length of 3 kilometers has been built along the road and the riverside. Every Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays, there will be a light fountain show along the promenade, as well as fireworks for about 15 minutes.

Young people are already fun-loving, and light fountain shows and fireworks have become the main weapons to attract young couples and young couples who have just gotten married. It doesn't cost much to watch the show anyway, and it's romantic. In recent years, the Beijiang Trail and night comprehensive performances have become the main tools for Panjiang City to attract sightseeing and tourism. More and more people are coming to the trail.

The Bac Giang Trail will not only attract young people, but also attract businesses from Pan Giang City, Bac Giang Province and Song An Province to compete. Roughly calculated, on an ordinary weekend, the Bac Giang Trail can have close to 100,000 people every night. On public holidays or long holidays, this number can be at least doubled. Such a strong flow of people will inevitably give rise to a large number of consumption opportunities. As a result, the neighborhood next to the Beijiang Trail has formed a huge and narrow business district. A large number of commercial centers and shops are clustered here. If you only look at the Beijiang Trail business district, no one will believe that Panjiang City is just a prefecture-level city.

But the exuberant crowds, dense shops, and narrow environment along the river have become the recipe for disaster today.

From five o'clock in the afternoon, the crowd on the Beijiang Trail began to surge. In addition to some ordinary citizens who plan to come and go home after coming to see the river view, a large number of young people who participated in the Bac Giang New Year's Eve activities gathered. It's not just a simple New Year's Eve event that attracts them to participate. This year, the Beijiang Trail Management Department and businesses in nearby business districts conducted a huge lucky draw. The administration will use the newly installed facial recognition system to record and draw prizes for visitors who come to participate in the New Year's Eve event. The first prize is a 120-gram gold bar from Classic Jewellery and Huoneng Group, as well as the privilege of free orders for all stores of Huoneng Trading Group for one year.

Prizes with a total value of more than 80,000 yuan, as well as the lottery mechanism of "as long as you show up, you will have a chance to win prizes", greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of citizens and tourists to participate. By just six o'clock in the evening, the number of people who appeared on the Beijiang Trail had reached 150,000. If it weren't for the fact that all the nearby parking lots were full, the main roads along the river were completely congested, and public transportation was paralyzed and unable to carry more people to the site, I am afraid that this number would have risen by at least 50%.

At 7 p.m., the fireworks show was delayed. No matter how hard the police officers who were directing the crowd at the scene, the black crowd just refused to disperse. The Panjiang city government, which found that something was wrong, has begun traffic control and mobilized police from other districts and counties to evacuate the crowd on the Beijiang Trail. At the same time, methods including mobile phone text messages, drone shouting and loudspeaker propaganda were used to try to disperse the crowd. But the effect is still very poor. In order to ensure the evacuation of the crowd and avoid further gathering, the fireworks display and the musical fountain show were urgently stopped. The Beijiang Trail business district is only allowed to go out, not entered.

At half past seven in the evening, there was a commotion in the crowd. The long-awaited performance did not start, but instead heard the request to leave the scene by himself. Many young people began to be dissatisfied and even complained. There were even some people who began to shout rhythmically under the influence of alcohol, "Perform, perform, perform!"

The crowd flow of the Bac Giang Trail began to decline gradually, but the tourists who had already left the Bac Giang Trail through the steps heard the commotion and thought that the performance had officially begun. And behind these people, there are thousands of people, who are walking resolutely outside.

The people standing on the steps stopped, and the people behind them didn't stop in time - they couldn't stop even when they were caught up in the crowd. Subsequently, a stampede occurred.

Rows and rows of people tried to squeeze up the steps, but were tripped over by the people who fell to the ground. The people behind could not see the injured person who had fallen to the ground, and they were still walking towards the steps. The fallen crowd began to spread rapidly towards the Beijiang Trail. Some people try to grab something to stabilize their bodies when they fall, only to pull down more tourists with unsteady feet. The crowd of people who were anxious to leave continued to surge forward firmly, forced to trample over the wounded on the ground, who were no longer able to move, and then tripped and trampled by those behind them...... Or even trampled to death.

Shrill cries, cries for help, angry yellings and screams of horror quickly rang out.

The police and armed policemen who were directing the crowd shouted with loudspeakers in their hands, hoping to stop the crowd from moving forward. But their voices seemed too small and weak in the crowd. Looking at the crowd of people who looked like wheat lying down after being swept away by a sickle, they were as anxious as if their eyebrows had been burned by fire. A few of the younger members even tried to stop the crowd by firing shots from the sky, but their move was quickly organized by the more experienced commanders. At this time, shooting is tantamount to aggravating the chaos of the crowd, and they must not be chaotic.

"Back off, back off!" the police and armed policemen who came back to their senses began to shout in unison, shouting as they thought about the crowd waving their hands back and forth. More and more people saw their movements and shouted along. Slowly, the sound of rhythmic shouts in unison resounded throughout the entire Beijiang Trail. The crowd finally stopped, and began to retreat a little. These police and armed police fighters, who were responsible for dispersing the crowd, were finally able to enter the scene and start emergency rescue.