Xinhua News Agency, Jishishan, Gansu Province, December 22 nd At 23: 59 on December 18, 2023, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 raided Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province in the cold night, and the disaster affected Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Up to now, the earthquake has killed 117 people in Gansu and 31 people in Qinghai, and damaged some houses, roads and power facilities.
More than 72 hours have passed since the earthquake. Are the roads in the affected areas unblocked and can electricity be guaranteed? Do the affected people have hot meals and clean water to drink, are warmth guaranteed, and are they treated for illness?
With these questions, the reporter scanned the latest local situation through interviews.
Power transportation: Gansu and Qinghai provinces have basically returned to normal.
Gansu:
Up to now, the power, water supply and gas supply in Jishishan County, Gansu Province have returned to normal; Heating has basically recovered, and individual damaged pipe networks are being repaired; All expressways and national and provincial trunk lines in the earthquake-stricken area of Gansu Province were unblocked, and all rural roads leading to the hardest-hit areas were rushed through.
On December 19th, at the entrance of the Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Jishishan Baoan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, the staff of the power department repaired the power facilities. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Xiping photo
The reporter saw in Chuimatan Town, where Jishishan County is located, that the roads in the county town were smooth and many shops began to open. From time to time, vehicles loaded with relief supplies can be seen on the road heading for towns and villages with heavy disasters.
Qinghai:
As of 19: 21 on the 19th, the power supply of users affected by this earthquake in Qinghai has all been restored.
Qinghai Communications Control Group has opened 214 special passages for earthquake relief in the province’s expressways, and set up convenient service points for earthquake relief on the expressways leading to the earthquake zone to provide full support services for earthquake relief vehicles and rescue teams.
China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. conducted a "carpet-type" investigation on the sections affected by the earthquake, and found no abnormality in railway-related equipment and facilities. At present, the trains in its pipeline have resumed normal traffic.
Treatment of the wounded: make a diagnosis and treatment plan, and comprehensively transport and treat them.
Gansu:
By the afternoon of the 22nd, 499 people in the earthquake-stricken areas in Gansu had been discharged from hospital after treatment, and 282 people who were still hospitalized were admitted to provincial, state and county medical institutions. National and provincial treatment experts are stationed at the site to guide, and one person and one policy make a diagnosis and treatment plan.
On December 19th, in Liuji Township, Jishishan County, medical staff rushed to transport the earthquake victims. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Shi Youdong)
On the night of the earthquake, serious cracks appeared in the inpatient building of Jishishan County Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. The medical staff temporarily set up a bed on the roadside, bandaged the minor injuries on the spot, and sent the serious injuries to Jishishan County People’s Hospital after simple treatment. The National Health and Wellness Commission and medical institutions at all levels in Gansu urgently dispatched experts to the disaster area to comprehensively carry out search and rescue, transshipment and treatment of the wounded.
Qinghai:
After the earthquake, Qinghai Provincial People’s Hospital immediately launched the earthquake emergency response, set up a 31-member emergency rescue medical team to rescue in the earthquake area, opened a green channel, vacated the ward urgently, concentrated on treating the injured, and made every effort to ensure medical rescue.
As of 22: 00 on the 21st, 226 people have been admitted to various medical institutions in Haidong City, Qinghai Province, 166 people have been treated in hospital, 7 people have been discharged, and 22 people have been followed up in the outpatient department.
Rescue and resettlement: the resettlement work was accelerated and the first batch of prefabricated houses were put into use.
Gansu:
According to the Emergency Management Department of Gansu Province, the resettlement of people’s lives in Jishishan County is accelerating. On the 21st, the first batch of prefabricated houses in Jishishan earthquake zone were put into use one after another.
On December 21st, in Meipo Village, Dahejia Town, Jishishan County, construction workers set up a prefabricated house (photo of drone). Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Peijun photo
Dong Ganjun, secretary of the Party branch of Zhangguojia Village, Liugou Township, Jishishan County, said that in recent days, he and the villagers have received coal, cotton bedding, stoves, milk and other living materials, which can basically guarantee the living needs of more than 300 people in the village.
On the 21st, in the courtyard of the village committee of Meipo Village, Dahejia Town, Jishishan County, the reporter saw that 36 prefabricated houses had been built and people were staying one after another. "Compared with ordinary tents, prefabricated houses have better thermal insulation, wind resistance and flame retardancy." Lu Dejun, captain and first secretary of the Meipo Village Resident Task Force, said.
Qinghai:
On the 22nd, the reporter learned from the Earthquake Relief Headquarters of Haidong City, Qinghai Province that Qinghai Province has set up 141 temporary resettlement sites in Haidong citizens and counties, Hualong County and Xunhua County to resettle 18,259 people affected by the disaster, and distributed a total of 59,400 sets of disaster relief materials such as tents, folding beds, cotton quilts, cotton coats and heating equipment to ensure that the affected people are properly resettled in time.
On December 21, officers and men of a brigade of the 76th Army of the Army unloaded the heating stoves with the affected people at the resettlement site in Shiyuan Town, Jishishan County. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yongjin photo
At about 22 o’clock on the 21st, the reporter walked into the tent of the temporary resettlement site in Jintian Village. Yang Cunxiao, 45, and several villagers sat around the fire and talked about their family. With the continuous advancement of rescue and resettlement work, the panic caused by the earthquake gradually faded on their faces, and the villagers began to plan the reconstruction of their homes. (Reporter Wang Bo, Wen Jing, Li Ning, Hu Weijie, Song Jia, Jimson, Wang Tong)