All kinds of rescue work in earthquake-stricken areas are being carried out in an orderly and intense manner.

CCTV News:After the 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, personnel search and rescue, treatment of the wounded, relocation and resettlement of the affected people were carried out overnight, and every effort was made to ensure the safety of people’s lives and property.

The epicenter of the earthquake is located in Liugou Township, Jishishan County, about 8 kilometers away from the county seat and 102 kilometers away from Lanzhou City. After the earthquake, the Gansu Provincial Earthquake Relief Headquarters immediately launched the Class II emergency response to the earthquake and sent rescue forces to the disaster area overnight.

Make every effort to organize emergency rescue, search and rescue trapped people and treat the wounded, and do our utmost to reduce casualties. At present, the people injured in the earthquake are mainly concentrated in medical institutions such as states, counties and towns for treatment. At the same time, Gansu Province has also dispatched 155 medical staff from 9 provincial medical teams to rush to the disaster-stricken areas to carry out work.

Do a good job in the transfer and resettlement of the affected people. The local government, rescue and disaster relief personnel set up tents in open areas, set up temporary resettlement sites, and organized and mobilized materials in various ways to ensure the basic livelihood of the people.

By 16: 00 today (December 19th), 650 tents, 4,080 beds of cotton bedding, 1,604 sets of folding beds, 3,120 cotton coats, 5,000 pairs of cotton shoes, 300 sets of stoves and other central and provincial emergency relief materials have been transported to Jishishan County. Twenty-four rural roads damaged by disasters were also fully opened at noon today, providing traffic guarantee for emergency rescue and disaster relief.

The earthquake also caused disasters in the three counties of Haidong, Xunhua and Hualong, which are adjacent to Jishishan County, Qinghai Province. In Jintian Village, Haidong City, the earthquake triggered sand surge, which caused sand liquefaction, some houses were damaged, and some were even completely destroyed. The local authorities are taking emergency rescue measures.

At present, Haidong City, Qinghai Province has organized more than 10,600 rescue forces, dispatched more than 3,000 pieces (sets) of relief materials such as tents, quilts, cotton coats and camp beds, dispatched 64 ambulances, treated 128 earthquake victims and transferred 17,870 teachers and students from 37 boarding schools.

Combined with the news from many sources, we use several key words to sort out the progress of earthquake rescue and let’s look at it together.

[Keyword 1: Rescue]

　　　　　　 Personnel search and rescue are tense, and material support is carried out simultaneously.

As of 14: 30 today, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has dispatched 2042 rescuers, 381 vehicles and 37 dogs to the rescue. Among them, 1,417 people, 252 cars and 21 dogs have arrived in the disaster area to continue rescue. At present, rescue and security work is being stepped up.

After the earthquake, 400 people from Gansu Forest Fire Brigade immediately assembled and rushed to the epicenter with equipment and materials to carry out personnel search and rescue and material support work overnight. Due to the low temperature at night, firefighters distributed coats to the affected people, set up tents and made a fire to keep warm.

Zhang Peng, instructor of the 5th Squadron of Gansu Forest Fire Brigade:At 5: 00 a.m. on December 19th, Gansu forest fire-fighting and rescue workers immediately advanced into Qinyin Village, Shiyuan Town, Jishishan County, the disaster-stricken area, and the earthquake caused large-scale house damage in the village. At 9 o’clock on the 19th, rescuers went deep into farmers’ homes, distributed more than 50 coats, set up more than 30 tents, rescued more than 200 people and rescued more than 40 buried livestock. In the next step, we will continue to do a good job in setting up disaster relief tents and removing dangerous walls.

Zhu Mingxing, 1st Squadron of Special Service Brigade of Gansu Forest Fire Brigade:I am currently located in Dahejia Town, Jishishan County. We search for collapsed structures (trapped people) in the disaster area by combining manual search and search for rescue dogs.

In Dahejia Town, Jishishan County, because most of the houses on site are self-built, there are obvious cracks in the walls and some walls collapse. In the meantime, fire rescue personnel adopt a combination of manual and dog search to carry out personnel search and rescue and safety hazard investigation.

Affected by the earthquake, houses in Caotan Village and Jintian Village, Zhongchuan Township, Minhe County, Haidong, Qinghai Province were damaged, and some people were trapped. After 200 rescuers from Qinghai Mobile Team of the State Fire and Rescue Bureau arrived at the disaster area at 3 o’clock on the 19th, they quickly surveyed and stepped up personnel search and rescue. As the passage leading to the affected area was blocked by mud, it was difficult to pass. Rescuers laid boards to build rescue passages and clean up mud, and divided into several groups to step up the search and rescue of trapped people.

　　　　　　 National Emergency Command Headquarters fully dispatches earthquake rescue.

For more information about the rescue deployment, let’s look at the report of CCTV reporters from the National Emergency Command Headquarters earlier.

CCTV reporter Song Wei:I am now at the National Emergency Command Headquarters. Let’s take a look at the overall situation first. From this map of emergency command behind me, we can intuitively see that the epicenter of this earthquake is 8 kilometers away from Jishishan County, Gansu Province, 26 kilometers away from Linxia County, 29 kilometers away from Xunhua County, Qinghai Province, 64 kilometers away from Hualong County and 69 kilometers away from Minhe County, which are also the main areas affected by this disaster. The picture is also marked with the personnel situation through the heat map, and the red area is the densely populated area. Through such a system of information summary, it can provide strong support for the whole rescue decision-making work in time.

From the big screen, we can also see that a plane is heading for the epicenter area. This is the pterosaur drone that took off from Zigong, Sichuan at around 12 noon today. After the pterosaur drone arrives in the disaster area, it will cruise in the disaster area, conduct real-time aerial disaster reconnaissance, and immediately return the disaster picture, which will provide an auxiliary role for the decision-making of rescue command.

At present, the local power and communication are being actively repaired. Pterosaur UAV is also equipped with communication relay equipment, which can provide a temporary communication service for areas with poor communication in the affected areas after arrival, so as to ensure that the affected areas can communicate with the outside world in time.

[Keyword 2: Relief Materials]

　　　　　　 The second batch of central relief materials has arrived in Jishishan County.

The reporter learned from the Emergency Management Department that the National Committee for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief, the Emergency Management Department and the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau have allocated 42,500 central relief materials to the disaster-stricken areas in Gansu in the early stage, and urgently added the second batch of 47,500 central relief materials. This afternoon, these materials have arrived in Jishishan County, Linxia, Gansu Province, including cotton tents, cotton coats (winter clothes), quilts, folding beds and venue lighting equipment. In addition, 21,500 pieces of central relief materials have been allocated to Qinghai Province earlier.

It is understood that as of 9: 00 on December 19, a total of 111,500 pieces of central relief materials have been allocated to the earthquake-stricken areas in Gansu and Qinghai provinces to support the disaster-stricken areas to do temporary resettlement and life assistance for the affected people. The emergency management departments of Gansu and Qinghai provinces have allocated rice and flour grain and oil, heating stoves, cotton-padded quilts and other local relief materials to the disaster areas, and Jiangsu, Ningxia, Sichuan and other provinces have allocated donated materials to the disaster areas to ensure the basic livelihood of the affected people.　

　　　　　　 The third batch of central relief materials was added by the three departments.

According to the needs of local disaster relief, the National Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Committee and the Emergency Management Department, together with the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau, have allocated 90,000 central relief materials to the disaster-stricken areas in Gansu Province in the early stage, and added the third batch of 22,000 central relief materials to Gansu Province, including 2,000 cotton tents, 5,000 folding beds, 5,000 cotton coats and 10,000 quilts.

As of 17: 00 on December 19th, a total of 133,500 pieces of central relief materials have been allocated to the earthquake-stricken areas in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, fully supporting the disaster-stricken areas to do temporary resettlement and life assistance for the affected people.

[Keyword 3: Disaster Relief Funds]

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions allocated 18 million yuan for earthquake relief.

In response to the earthquake disaster in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions urgently allocated 18 million yuan of trade union disaster relief sympathy funds today to support trade unions in Gansu and Qinghai provinces to carry out earthquake relief work, mainly for condolences to the injured workers, the affected workers and the relief workers.

The National Development and Reform Commission issued 250 million yuan of central budget investment to support earthquake relief.

The reporter just learned from the National Development and Reform Commission that after the earthquake, the National Development and Reform Commission launched an emergency response mechanism to do a good job in ensuring the transportation of coal, electricity and oil in the disaster areas, allocating emergency relief materials, and ensuring the supply and price stability of important people’s livelihood commodities. Emergency organizations allocated a total of 250 million yuan in central budgetary investment for post-disaster emergency recovery and reconstruction to Gansu and Qinghai provinces to support the emergency recovery and construction of infrastructure and public service facilities in earthquake-stricken areas.

[Keyword 4: Satellite Imaging]

　　　　　　 Multi-sector and multi-satellite emergency satellite imaging of disaster areas.

After the 6.2 earthquake in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, many departments and units urgently deployed transit satellites to monitor the disaster situation in the disaster area. At present, a number of post-disaster satellite remote sensing images have been obtained.

After the M6.2 earthquake in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources immediately coordinated the 02-star and 2-meter /8-meter optical satellite constellations of Resource 3, and obtained satellite remote sensing images after the earthquake. Remote sensing images show that Jishishan County in the earthquake zone is located in a mountainous area with many gullies and ridges and a high average altitude, which brings certain difficulties to post-disaster rescue. Up to now, the satellite remote sensing data related to the earthquake zone have been pushed to the emergency command lines in Gansu and Qinghai through the natural resources satellite remote sensing cloud service platform, and satellite programming shooting such as Gaofen No.1 and No.6 will be arranged in the follow-up.

At the same time, China Resources Satellite Application Center of Aerospace Science and Technology Group also urgently called Gaofen-4 Satellite, Gaofen-1 B Satellite, Environmental Disaster Reduction-2 A Satellite and Gaofen-3 Satellite to conduct satellite imaging at 9: 10 and 11: 41 today.

At present, the Resource Satellite Application Center has obtained the post-disaster images taken by Gaofen-1 B star, covering the disaster-stricken areas including Jishishan County, Dahejia, Liuji Township and Liugou. Landslides, dammed lakes and building collapses can be obtained through high-resolution remote sensing satellite images for decision-making and analysis of post-disaster rescue by relevant departments.

[Keyword 5: Transport Corridor]

Rescue vehicles can pass through Dahejia Yellow River Bridge normally.

After the 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, cracks appeared in Dahejia Yellow River Bridge in Dongxiang section of Linxia City, Gansu Province, and the bearings of the bridge shifted. On the morning of the 19th, only small vehicles were allowed to pass, and large vehicles were forbidden to pass. Gansu Provincial Department of Transportation has organized maintenance units to adjust and reset the offset bearings. According to the evaluation of bridge experts, emergency rescue vehicles can pass normally.

　　　　　　 Two helicopters of the army in the western theater arrived at the epicenter for rescue.

　　　　　　 Up to now, the army of the western theater has dispatched more than 900 people, 2 helicopters and 210 vehicles to participate in the rescue, supporting 1000 cotton tents and 630 heating stoves in the disaster area. At present, 83 people have been transferred, 8 people have been rescued from the ruins, more than 700 houses have been inspected, 2 temporary resettlement sites and 50 tents have been set up. At 14: 28 this afternoon, two Mi -17 helicopters landed on the temporary apron on the playground of Dahejia Middle School in Jishishan County, mainly performing tasks such as aerial reconnaissance, material delivery, and casualty transfer.

[Keyword 6: Power Recovery]

　　　　　　 Short-term tripping of some power plant units in Gansu earthquake area has now resumed.

Early this morning, the earthquake caused some power plant units to trip for a short time. After confirming the safety of the equipment, all of them have been connected to the grid.

Affected by the earthquake, three units of Jishixia Hydropower Station, located about 16 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake, tripped, and the power station immediately launched a special emergency response to the earthquake disaster. After comprehensive investigation, there was no abnormality in the dam and hydraulic structures. After the station personnel actively repaired, all the units resumed grid connection at 4 am today, and the current water level of the reservoir is 1855.88 meters.

About 100 kilometers away from the epicenter, Huaneng Gansu Xigu Thermal Power Company and Fanping Thermal Power Company successively tripped units and important auxiliary equipment. After investigation and disposal, after confirming the safety of the equipment, the parameters were adjusted as soon as possible to resume the grid-connected operation of the units. At the same time, closely monitor the operation of generator sets, main and auxiliary equipment and heating pipe network to minimize the losses caused by the earthquake.

The reporter learned from the State Power Investment Yellow River Company that at present, the company has launched a Class I response to the special emergency plan for earthquake disasters, and immediately investigated the safety hazards of on-site equipment and hydraulic structures in various stations such as Jishixia, Gongboxia, Yanguoxia and Bapanxia within 300 kilometers from the epicenter, and at the same time strengthened the dam data monitoring of hydropower stations, and immediately inspected and recovered the unit equipment that was tripped due to the earthquake to ensure reliable power supply.