The Party flag flutters high on the frontline at the grassroots level, heading towards the most remote and disconnected villages for mountain floods | villages | grassroots
CCTV News: Most of the villages in Jiulong Town, Laishui County, Baoding, Hebei Province are scattered deep in the mountains. In the heavy rainfall and flash floods, 18 remote villages lost contact. In order to timely understand the safety of the villagers there, party members and cadres of the Jiulong Town government crossed mountains and ridges to advance into the lost villages.
On the late night of July 31st, under continuous heavy rainfall, transportation and communication were interrupted one kilometer away from the Kowloon Town Government, and 18 remote villages in the northern mountainous area lost contact. In order to timely understand the safety of all the villagers there, in the early morning of August 1st, party members and cadres from Jiulong Town marched into the lost village. Yang Chuncheng, the deputy secretary of the town discipline inspection commission with 36 years of party experience, and Jing Jianfeng, the director of the town police station, are responsible for contacting the most remote villages. The two of them waded through the accumulated water for over three hours and arrived at the first village to be explored, Luogutai. After confirming the personal safety of all the villagers, they immediately brought paper and pen, wrote a letter to report the situation back to the town, and then rushed to the next village.
On the way, they bypassed the landslides and streams of water, and entered any village they could reach. If they couldn't, they asked the villagers they encountered. So, all the way to Zhuangtou Village, and then to Gaopu Village.
Up from Gaopu Village is Lingnantai Village, the northernmost village in Laishui County. Although the two villages are only 4 kilometers apart, the road has been washed away by flash floods, and there is no other way except for climbing.
In this way, Yang Chuncheng and Jing Jianfeng finally arrived at Lingnan Tai Village in nearly 5 hours. At that time, rolling mountain torrents poured down the slopes of the village, and village officials were investigating whether the houses were in danger.
Starting from Jiulong Town to Lingnan Tai, it usually takes one hour by car, but Yang Chuncheng and Jing Jianfeng walked for more than 12 hours, surveyed 6 villages, confirmed the situation of two villages, and found that there were no casualties among 5300 villagers in 8 villages.
