2023-08-08 08:06:25
2023-08-08 16:06 24 hours around the corner of Lianhe News. Angry Bazhou residents continued to go to the city government to ask for an explanation. Clashes broke out with the police. People were beaten and sprayed with pepper water. picture…
【2023. 8. 8 China】
Bao Beijing’s victim?Homes destroyed by flood in Hebei, China
“Floods washed away their homes, and they were beaten when they asked for an explanation…” Heavy rains caused disasters in northern China for several days. Previously, 7 flood storage and detention areas were opened in Hebei Province, including the opening of Bazhou Dongdian at 2 am on August 1. The flood detention area caused the local area to become flooded due to the flood discharge of the Daqing River in Beijing. 73,205 residents were evacuated in advance, and their homes were flooded, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. However, the official media “CCTV News” determined that the flood in Bazhou was caused by “rainfall” and ignored the problem of flood discharge, which caused dissatisfaction among Bazhou residents. On August 4th, the local city government protested. On the 5th, Bazhou officials admitted in an open letter that the flood caused disasters and the residents of Bazhou were sacrificed. However, the angry locals continued to ask the city government for an explanation. On August 7th, they communicated with the police. Clashes broke out, and people were beaten and pepper-sprayed.
Typhoon Dusurui hit China and caused heavy rain in North China. The Chinese Ministry of Finance has allocated 170 million yuan to the disaster-stricken areas for disaster relief. The Office of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Emergency Management Department stated on August 5 that they are still in the critical period of flood control .
In Hebei Province, 98 counties and 883 townships were hit by floods, with 2.22 million people affected. As of August 4, officials had transferred 1.54 million people to avoid disasters. Langfang, Hengshui, and Baoding maintained a first-level emergency response.
The Emergency Management Department of Hebei Province successively opened 7 flood storage and detention areas for flood diversion, and transferred 960,000 people from the flood storage and detention areas; on August 1, the official opening of the Dongdian flood storage and detention area in Bazhou City, Langfang City allowed the Daqing River in Beijing to discharge floods. This caused extensive flooding of the area. Before the flood discharge, officials pre-evacuated 73,205 residents, but many residents were still trapped following the flood discharge.
Bazhou disaster. Photo/Weibo Residents in Bazhou clashed with the police and were brutally beaten by men in black.Picture/Weibo
China’s official media “CCTV News” reported on the disaster in Bazhou on the morning of August 4, claiming that Bazhou was “affected by rainfall.” On August 2, some villages experienced 0.4 to 4-meter-high stagnant water.
Because the flood in Bazhou was caused by flood discharge, not rainfall, some residents of Bazhou said on Weibo that Bazhou did not receive much rainfall locally, but was flooded for flood discharge upstream, so the content reported by “CCTV News” immediately angered Bazhou residents who lost their homes, farmland, and property in the flood. After “CCTV News” was broadcast on August 4, hundreds of Bazhou residents gathered in the local government building to protest, holding up a banner reading “Give me back my home, it was obviously caused by the flood, but it was caused by rain”, and clashed with the police .
After the incident became serious, Bazhou officials released “A Letter to the Folks” on the WeChat public account on August 5, which read:
“In the face of the extremely severe flood control situation, all the people in the Dongdian Flood Storage and Detention Area of our city obeyed the command, responded positively, moved out of their long-lived homes without hesitation, and practiced the tenacious will of dedication and sacrifice with practical actions! The Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government He and the people of the whole city express our heartfelt thanks and high respect to the folks in the flood storage and detention area!”
The letter also stated that in accordance with the State Council’s “Interim Measures for the Use of Compensation in Flood Storage and Detention Areas” and the “National Regulations on the Administration of Financial Compensation in Flood Storage and Detention Areas”, compensation for disaster victims will be done in accordance with policies. CCTV also removed the controversial flood news.
Hundreds of residents of Bazhou gathered in the local city government building to protest, holding high the words “Give me back my home. It is obviously the cause of the flood, but it is said that the rain caused… Bazhou official released “A Letter to the Folks” on the WeChat public account on August 5. letter>. Picture/Weibo
However, for the residents of Bazhou, the “courageous dedication and sacrifice” praised by the government is not voluntary. The state government building asked for explanations, protested with banners, and then clashed with the police. The police at the scene attacked the people with pepper water, and some people were beaten to the head and bled. In the live conflict video shared by the Twitter account “Ms. Li is not your teacher”, one of the people who was sprayed with pepper water shouted:
“Did you see it! These are the people’s police who eat the country’s food!”
The torrential rain and floods and the violence encountered by the protesting people made Weibo netizens angry. Someone boarded a boat and took photos of Bazhou becoming a vast ocean and houses being flooded. They called the Weibo account of “CCTV News” and asked: “Can the rain in Bazhou cause such Consequences?” Some people also counted the places where major accidents occurred recently, such as Qiqihar, where the middle school gymnasium collapsed and killed 11 female students, and Zhuozhou, which was also besieged by floods, and wrote:
“Whether it is Qiqihar or Zhuozhou Bazhou, it may be another city in the future. The local government (government) facing the crisis has reached an unimaginable level.”
Bazhou disaster.Picture/Weibo
Another person expressed pessimistically regarding the current situation where the affected residents have nowhere to seek help:
“Remind the disaster-stricken people in Hebei to be cautious in their words and deeds these days. If you say something bad, you risk being labeled as an enemy agent by the positive energy. In the future, there will be catastrophes and catastrophes. Everyone has to encourage each other.”
In addition, in Chinese public opinion, in view of the severe flooding caused by the flood discharge in many places in Hebei, many voices questioned that the move was “sacrificing Hebei to protect Beijing”. Engineer Cheng Xiaotao said that the effectiveness of the flood storage and detention area is aimed at the downstream rather than the upstream, so the application of the Hebei flood storage and detention area corresponds to Tianjin; there are also Chinese self-media comments that the flood discharge in Hebei is to protect the floods hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping. driving, downstreamXiongan New District。
In this flood, the image of Hebei as a victim seems to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people. On the Chinese Internet, netizens adapted Asimov’s Three Laws of robots, and spoofed the “Three Laws of Hebei People”, which read:
The first rule: Hebei people must not harm Beijing, Tianjin, Xiong’an people, or sit back and watch Beijing people get hurt;
The second law: Hebei people must obey the orders of Beijing, Tianjin, and Xiongan people, unless the order conflicts with the first law;
The third law: Hebei people can protect themselves without violating the first or second law.
Zhuozhou disaster.Photo/Archyde.com Over the past 24 hours China
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