Blessings for the Wenchuan earthquake
Written to commemorate the 31st day of the Wenchuan Earthquake: Blessings for the Show: Rebuilding the First Town of Aba
Inscription: The street lights in the distance are bright, as if countless stars are shining. The stars in the sky appeared, as if countless street lamps were lit. I think there must be a beautiful street in the misty sky. Some of the items displayed in the market must be rare and rare in the world.
You see, the shallow Tianhe is definitely not very wide. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl across the river will definitely be able to ride back and forth on their oxen. I think they must be wandering around Tianjie at this moment. If you don’t believe it, please look at the shooting stars, even if they are walking with lanterns - Guo Moruo
On a beautiful night, I always look to the west at the two zigzag zigzags on the hillside. "Sky Lantern". The recovering village of Yuzixi is silently watching over the souls of more than 5,000 neighbors, like a market in the sky, quiet and distant.
In the dreamland of Yingxiu, I always want to fly the flag that does not fall down under the camphor tree by the river. 260 living lives are jumping and in Nirvana. Notices have been posted at primary schools and kindergartens in the town, please register before the 12th.
On the morning of Yingxiu, I always walk slowly along the riverside avenue of Zhongbaotan. The rushing water of Minjiang River tells the story of the pain and sadness of the drifting away day and night. A young daughter-in-law began to sing in a low voice, with strength and longing hidden in her singing voice.
Every day during the show, container trucks shuttled back and forth, helicopters took off and landed; batches of builders burned the midnight oil to work, and rows of new prefabricated houses lined up; the mobile post office received its first postmark, and shops sold out I bought my first pack of Panda cigarettes...
Really, if I can, I will write down my sentiments and blessings, for Yingxiu and for myself.
Sadness and Death: The Red Flag that Never Fell
On May 31, the reporter caught a bus from Chuxiong, Yunnan, heading to Wenchuan at the intersection of Dujiangyan and Yingxiu. Those looking for the dilapidated remains of the deceased relatives and friends walked north along the west bank of the Minjiang River along National Highway 213. Along the way, they saw only earth-yellow wounds left by the earthquake and landslides, piles of boulders and smashed vehicles. The width of the Baihuaqiao ditch leading in and out of Yingxiu has been shifted from 30 meters to 80 meters, and the length has been torn from 1.5 kilometers to 3 kilometers.
Yingxiu Town is located in a three-square-kilometer Minjiang River Valley, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side. It is located in the south of Wenchuan County, Sichuan, adjacent to Wolong Nature Reserve, and is also the southern gate of Aba Prefecture. , 88km away from Chengdu, is the only way to travel to Jiuzhaigou, Wolong and Siguniang Mountain. The town covers an area of 115.12 square kilometers and has a population of more than 12,000 people. It governs 9 administrative villages and 31 villager groups. Han, Tibetan, Qiang, Hui and other fraternal ethnic groups live together. There are 18 central, provincial, state, and (gw9080.com official documents available) county-owned enterprises and institutions in the town. In recent years, the town has also actively responded to the national call, conscientiously implemented the policy of returning farmland to forest (grassland), accelerated the adjustment of the industrial structure, and developed a path focusing on breeding and planting on the remaining 1,800 acres of cultivated land. Among them, Huangjiayuan Village has planted more than 300 acres of ryegrass, and Laojie Village and Zhangjiaping Village have planted 100 acres of the herb Coptis chinensis on a trial basis. Yingxiu is also known as the "Hometown of Hydropower". It is rich in water resources, has good water quality, and has a large gap. It has successively built hydropower stations such as Yingxiu Bay Power Plant, Huaneng Taipingyi Power Plant, and Futang Hydropower Plant. Some people in the town can even receive a monthly subsidy of 50 yuan from Yingxiuwan Power Plant.
In the memory of Zhu Yongfei, a student at Xuankou Middle School, Yingxiu is a paradise. Whenever she read Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring" at the age of 13, she would argue with her classmates: "We don't have Yingxiu here yet." It’s fun.”
Unfortunately, all this was completely changed by a major earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. At 14:45, the China Earthquake Administration Network Center released the pre-assessment results: extremely major earthquake disaster. In China, this is the highest level. The epicenter was 7 kilometers upstream to the west of Yingxiu Town.
It was later found out that Beichuan was the county with the heaviest losses due to a large area affected by the disaster and many victims; a large number of Dongqi Company’s factories in Hanwang Town, Mianyang collapsed, which was regarded as the industrial zone with the worst disaster; Dujiangyan City reported to Exiang was the hardest-hit township; Yingxiu, the town closest to the epicenter, was the hardest-hit town. In an instant, the sky collapsed and the earth was dark, and it rained heavily. In just over a minute, the bustling and peaceful town was razed to the ground. , the loss was no less than 6 billion, and less than 3,000 people escaped. Communication and transportation in the entire Yingxiu and even Wenchuan were completely interrupted. They were like isolated islands and their beauty was no longer...
12 people were lost in the earthquake. Li Jiafu, a villager in Yuzixi Village who has a 11-year-old boy and an 11-year-old daughter, murmured to reporters that Yingxiu Town consists of two parts: old street and new street. On the first day, there were calls for help everywhere, on the second day there were mostly moans, and on the third day When I walked into the old street to rescue people in the evening, I could only hear a gentle sound like the sound of nature, and then there was no sound anymore.
The most tragic event was Yingxiu Primary School, with 473 students. In addition to two classes taking physical education and two first-grade classes on the first floor, 155 people from four classes ran out, and nearly 300 Three children were buried under the rubble, and more than 260 people were killed. Only a bright five-star red flag stood proudly in the center of the playground (pictured, photo by Luo Aihua), as if it knew which direction the wind was blowing.
"Every day, as soon as I close my eyes, I hear the children's cries for help." The sad and angry principal Tan Guoqiang said to everyone.
Xuankou Middle School located at the entrance of the town and the Yingxiu Bay Power Plant in the center of the town suffered the same fate as Yingxiu Primary School. The former lost more than 40 teachers and students, while the latter lost more than 80 people, not including the large number of injured. Today, more than 1,000 surviving students from Xuankou Middle School have been transferred to Chengdu and other places.
When Wenchuan County Magistrate Liao Min stepped into the ruins, he couldn't help covering his face and crying: "The earthquake set back Yingxiu's economic and social development by at least 20 years!"
Because of Yingxiu's It is a strategic location second to none. After the earthquake, Shi Jun, secretary of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Party Committee, who originally wanted to rush to Wenchuan from Malkang, came here and immediately set up the state's general headquarters here to direct the earthquake relief efforts across the state. Work. The 13th Group Army of the Chengdu Military Region, which came to the rescue day and night, also set up its base camp here.
"After my son passes away, I ask my mother to put my son's grave to the east." Resting on the green hills at the base of the temple, listening to the water of the Minjiang River, the victims in Yingxiu were properly "placed" in the west half of the town. On the mountainside. They cannot "give up" their affection for Yingxiu. They want to "witness" Yingxiu's past and "protect" Yingxiu's future.
The fragrance of roses is still there when they wither, but the love of loved ones is eternal even after they have passed away. At 14:28 on May 19, the national flag slowly lowered, the sirens whimpered, and the turbulent Minjiang River seemed to have stopped roaring. China, our China, was performing the most solemn ceremony to honor the compatriots who died in the Wenchuan earthquake. Sending off with tears.
Blessings: Rebuilding the First Town of Aba
The dead are gone, and the living should move on.
Zhao Nanxian, who once worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and later went to Linzhi, Tibet to aid Tibet for two years, is now the deputy secretary-general of the Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government and the commander-in-chief of Guangzhou’s frontline headquarters for earthquake relief work in Sichuan disaster areas, told reporters Weiwei talked about his thoughts on this earthquake disaster, especially the Yingxiu disaster, and his rigorous arguments were no less rigorous than those of experts.
There is no doubt that the Wenchuan earthquake was caused by the collision of the Indian plate and the Asian continental plate, which caused violent activity in the contacting crust. It completely followed China's orogeny and extended from southwest to northeast, spreading vertically at an extremely fast speed. In addition, the earthquake's focus was shallow - only 19 kilometers from the ground, instantly causing widespread damage in adjacent areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi.
To the east of Yingxiu is a mountain - Yunhua Mountain, to the west is also a mountain - Miaojiping Mountain, and to the north is a mountain - Xiguaolao Mountain. During the earthquake, Yingxiu Town obviously became a wedge, and at the same time Being squeezed hard from three sides, huge energy was released, causing the ground surface to be dislocated and fractured. Almost no house was spared. At the same time, the surface of the three mountains collapsed in the same direction towards the center of the town. Even if you escaped, you would be crushed to death by the rolling rocks. Injured, it can be said that the chance of survival at that time was extremely low. A (gw9080.com official documents are available upon request) The earliest report on the Bazhou government portal website described the tragic situation at that time: the entire highway from Dujiangyan to Yingxiu was paralyzed, and all the Baihua Bridge that must pass through collapsed. Due to constant aftershocks, frequent rolling rocks on the mountain, extremely Danger; Yingxiu Town has a permanent population of 6,641, plus a floating population of more than 10,000 people. There are only more than 2,300 survivors, of which more than 1,000 are seriously injured and are in urgent need of medical staff, medicines, dressings and equipment, food, and drinking water... ....
To this end, Zhao Nanxian put forward four opinions on the future permanent construction of Yingxiu:
The six towns of Yingxiu are all located in the mountains and valleys, with frequent geological disasters. There are not many flat lands to be utilized, that is, dams. When carrying out permanent construction, including the construction of transitional prefabricated houses, town and village planning and site selection must first consider geological and ecological safety, and avoid placing buildings in highly destructive areas such as orogeny and earthquake zones. We must dare to break the pattern of production, life and residence left over from history'
Secondly, we must pay attention to promoting the integration of the social structure and cultural heritage formed over thousands of years with today's wave of urbanization and industrialization. Turn the crisis into an opportunity for development, accelerate the adjustment of the original industrial structure and residential pattern in accordance with the scientific outlook on development, and rely on the construction of new rural areas to focus on the construction of several points. What was originally the same will not be the same in the future, otherwise it will be scattered in the mountains and valleys. Residents spent a lot of money to connect water channels and electricity, but only a few households at each point could use it. This was a waste of people and money, and the efficiency was very low.
Thirdly, architectural design methods should be specially studied. It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between architecture and climate and weather, the relationship between architecture and topography, and the relationship between architecture and ecological protection and cultural protection. For example, the roof of Qiang Village is uneven and there are no rainproof facilities. Every household has a watchtower. On the plateau, it is enough to put up a tent and apply a layer of mud. However, it is rainy in Yingxiu, Wenchuan. When building, you can use stones for the lower half and the upper half. Half of the structure is made of steel, which not only replaces wood, but also uses as little wood as possible.
Finally, you cannot wear new shoes and follow the old road. You must first establish a good mechanism, which determines everything. In particular, the counterpart assistance mechanism must reflect a high level, borrow more external resources and brains, and carry forward the spirit of hard work. This must never be lost.
When providing assistance, we must not only provide money and materials, but more importantly, import and transplant management models, and cultivate the ability to organize and develop the economy and society. Otherwise, except for a few new houses, everything will remain the same, and no matter how good the assistance is, it will be difficult to maintain.
Zhao Nanxian emphasized that the purpose of our counterpart assistance is to ensure the development and well-being of the people in the disaster area, not to show that we are better than them. At present, Guangzhou's builders are following the instructions of Secretary Zhu Xiaodan and Mayor Zhang Guangning, and the instructions of Vice Mayor Chen Guo, with deep friendship for the people in the disaster area, relying closely on the local party committee and government and the people in the disaster area, planning scientifically, and putting people first. Three effective models have been explored to build the best prefabricated houses for disaster areas. "Concentrated housing construction" model. After the earthquake, only less than 3,000 people remained in Yingxiu Town, which had a population of more than 12,000. Whether in terms of survival and development or emotionally, most survivors who were originally engaged in the tertiary industry in the town still want to live in the town. Taking this demand into consideration, Guangzhou and Yingxiu established a "concentrated housing construction" model to restore the social functions of the town through centralized residential resettlement, and decided to give priority to housing for education, medical care and social welfare services.
"Moderate scale concentration" model. In the three towns of Yingxiu, Xuankou and Shuimo, many river valleys and flat areas have already been submerged by mudslides. The relatively flat land is mostly used as tent sites for troops and medical teams. There are also some flat lands that need to be used for planning post-disaster reconstruction or business resumption of production, and cannot be moved at all. At the same time, secondary geological disasters such as mudslides and landslides caused by earthquakes are very serious. Some flat areas cannot withstand geological assessment. They are often chosen and finalized on the first day, only to be overturned overnight. What's particularly special is that the residential areas in these two towns are relatively scattered, and the people are unwilling to stray too far from their original places of life and production. Based on this complicated situation, both parties proposed the idea of "concentration on a moderate scale" for housing construction. Mainly in places where transportation is accessible, groups or groups of prefabricated houses of moderate size are constructed to realize community functions. Even Aba Prefecture placed the new location of the state headquarters in Shuimo Town.
"A model combining decentralized temporary resettlement and permanent construction." The builders, Guangzhou Huan and Yingxiu Town, also combined scattered temporary resettlement with permanent construction based on actual conditions. It is understood that there are nearly 60 administrative villages and 200 natural villages in the three towns of Yingxiu, scattered in the mountains and valleys, and sparsely populated. Some villages that were not located in the epicenter and were not severely damaged stated that they did not want to build temporary prefabricated houses and asked for help in building permanent housing. In this regard, policymakers plan to consider subsidizing the construction funds of the original prefabricated houses to the disaster-stricken people, and let them organize self-construction, so as to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of each house and effectively solve the housing problem of the scattered disaster-stricken people.
Yes, Yingxiu, who has experienced catastrophe, is waiting for rebirth. In fact, an expert team from the School of Architectural Engineering of Tsinghua University appointed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development had earlier divided into four groups and rushed to Chengdu, Wenchuan-Maoxian, Lixian and Yingxiu to conduct resettlement and reconstruction inspections and Planning work.
Jiang Qinglin, mayor of Yingxiu Town, told reporters that after careful investigation and testing by experts, the new site for Yingxiu reconstruction has been basically determined, that is, one kilometer west of the original site, across the bridge from the original town , it is estimated that reconstruction can be resumed in three years. However, it will take 5 to 10 years for Yingxiu to fully recover to pre-earthquake levels.
Liao Min, the 41-year-old head of Wenchuan County, also said that before the earthquake, the entire state invested tens of millions of yuan to strengthen Yingxiu’s infrastructure, and then launched the Holy Lake Project with a total investment of 3 billion yuan. Eco-tourism (gw9080.com official document provides by appointment) project, this work will continue in the future; at the same time, they will also ask Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, which is assisting the construction of board houses in the third town of Yingxiu, to provide all-round support to Yingxiu. I believe that the goal of building Yingxiu into the first eco-tourism town in Aba and an important Qiang cultural town at an early date will not be a fairy tale.
Li Yunquan, a surviving villager, originally planned to leave Yingxiu, a sad place, forever. But now, he told reporters: "I am carrying the ash and mortar to rebuild Yingxiu."
< p> A rainbow always follows the storm. Let us deeply, deeply bless the new show.