Hutubi Earthquake in Xinjiang： Some schools near Shihezi left school early.

　　The teacher of Shihezi No.10 Middle School explained the knowledge of earthquake safety to the students and comforted them. Photo courtesy of Shihezi No.10 Middle School

　　Shihezi, Zhongxin. com, December 8 (Zhou Guofu) "It is reported that an earthquake has just occurred, and the earthquake is strong. All teachers and students of our school have been safely evacuated to the school playground, and there are no casualties. I hereby report." At 13: 18 pm on December 8, Gao Fengjiang, the headmaster of Shihezi No.16 Middle School, reported the situation by telephone.

　　At 13: 15 on December 8, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 occurred in Hutubi County, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, with a focal depth of 6 kilometers. The earthquake was felt clearly in Shihezi, the eighth division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Most primary and secondary schools in Shihezi, such as No.16 Middle School, No.22 Middle School, No.143 Middle School, No.25 Middle School, No.147 Middle School, No.148 Middle School, No.2 Primary School and No.1 Primary School, quickly evacuated their students. In order to prevent accidents from happening again, some primary and secondary schools let children go home from school after evacuation, and arranged today’s special homework — — Understand earthquake knowledge.

　　Gao Fengjiang, president of Shihezi No.16 Middle School, said that the school should carry out a comprehensive emergency evacuation drill every month. When the earthquake happened, the teachers immediately organized students to evacuate to the playground according to the usual order and route, which benefited from the good daily safety education.

　　After the earthquake, all the teachers and students of Shihezi No.16 Middle School were safely evacuated to the school playground. Photo courtesy of Shihezi No.16 Middle School

　　After the earthquake, the Education Bureau of Shihezi City also issued a notice at the first time, asking schools to quickly organize inspections of old school buildings and walls to ensure the occurrence of secondary disasters. Shihezi No.9 Middle School quickly organized personnel to check all safe passages and investigate hidden dangers after the earthquake.

　　It is reported that the education system of Shihezi City attaches great importance to the education of students’ safety emergency response, and makes full use of the national safety education day for primary and secondary school students, the "5.12" disaster prevention and mitigation day, the "119" fire week and other favorable opportunities to carry out targeted emergency evacuation drills such as earthquakes and fires, especially this year’s "5.12", in conjunction with Shihezi Safety Supervision Bureau and Seismological Bureau, all schools organized emergency evacuation drills at a unified time, in which more than 70,000 teachers and students in reclamation areas participated. (End)