People’s Liberation Army and Armed Police Force： Strive to Win the Hard Battle of Flood Control, Emergency Rescue and Disaster Relief.

　　[party flag is flying high at the grassroots level]

　　Guangming Daily reporter Liu Xiaobing Zhang Wen

　　In the past few days, affected by Typhoon Du Surui, extreme rainfall occurred in North China, Huanghuai and other places, causing floods and geological disasters, causing heavy casualties in Beijing and Hebei. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Armed Police Force (CAPF) moved at the news of the flood season, charged ahead, bravely shouldered heavy burdens, and went all out to win the tough battle of flood fighting, emergency rescue and disaster relief.

　　Where there is danger, there is party flag flying; Where there are difficulties, there is party member. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Armed Police Force (CAPF) have given full play to the role of grass-roots party organizations as fighting bastions and the vanguard and exemplary role of party member, transforming their strong organizational strength into fighting capacity for flood fighting and disaster relief, so that bright red party flag can fly high in the front line.

　　After the floods occurred in North China and Northeast China, the joint finger centers in the central theater and the northern theater operated around the clock to go all out to support local rescue and disaster relief — —

　　There was a large area of rainstorm waterlogging in and around Baoding City, Hebei Province. After the 82nd Army "Tiejunlv" of the Army in the Central Theater received orders from its superiors, the brigade party committee quickly set up a front-line commando to go all out to fight floods. After several days of continuous fighting by commandos, the danger in the mission area was effectively controlled. In order to completely eliminate the danger, the dike patrol team composed of party member conducted uninterrupted inspections on about 38km sections on both sides of Baigou River.

　　On July 31, a brigade of the 82nd Army of the Central Theater rushed to Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, and set up 12 temporary party branches and 38 temporary party groups at the first time. During the implementation of flood fighting and emergency rescue, under the unified dispatch and command of the brigade, each temporary party branch undertakes a task area, and each party group sticks to a task point. "Where is the most dangerous, there is the backbone of party member rushing ahead!" Leave the danger to yourself and bring safety to the masses. They protect their lives with their lives.

　　Affected by heavy rainfall, the water level of Mopanshan Reservoir in wuchang city City, Heilongjiang Province surged, resulting in overflow of dikes, damage to the channel of Shahezi Town, and thousands of villagers were trapped. In the early morning of August 4th, a brigade of Shen Liangliang, the "people’s hero" of the 78th Army of the Northern Theater Army, was ordered to move quickly to help. They gave full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of party member, delineated the responsibility area of party member, and established the party member Commando. One by one, party member charged ahead, led the officers and men to fight in deep water for more than 20 hours, searched door to door, and helped to transport more than 3,000 people safely.

　　In the front line of flood fighting and emergency rescue, officers and men of the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force practiced the solemn oath of "party flag pointed out and charged" and "I will not retreat if the flood does not retreat". Teams of retrograde camouflages add color in the wind and rain and shine in party flag — —

　　"Comrades, come on!" After receiving the task on August 3, the squad leader of a squadron of a detachment of the Tianjin Armed Police Corps, the second-class staff sergeant Liu Changfeng and the officers and men have been fighting on the Daqing River. A sandbag weighs dozens of pounds and lasts for more than 70 hours. No one shouts bitterness and tiredness. "It is the glorious tradition of our party and army that the backbone of party member is always ahead and ahead. It is our responsibility to let party flag fly high in the front line of flood control and flood relief! " Liu Changfeng said firmly.

　　"Now we need a new force to jump into the flood with me to build sandbags. Who will come?" Jia Hongyun, deputy detachment leader of Mudanjiang detachment of Armed Police Heilongjiang Corps, launched officers and men to form commandos. In less than 3 minutes, a 20-member party member Commando was formed. Everyone jumped into the waist-deep flood to reinforce the dam urgently, and other officers and men were encouraged to work harder and harder.

　　Serving the people wholeheartedly is the fundamental purpose of the people’s army. Over the past few days, officers and men of various task forces have shared the same breath, shared the same fate and heart to heart with the people, and made every effort to ensure the safety of people’s lives and property — —

　　"The flood control situation in Shuiyuzui Village is grim, so we must speed up and rescue the trapped people!" On the afternoon of July 31, the roads around Shuiyuzui Village in Mentougou District, Beijing were destroyed by mudslides, and people who had not moved in time were still trapped. Ma Xu, instructor of the 1st Mobile Brigade of a detachment of the Beijing Armed Police Corps, led 40 party member commandos for 4 hours and rescued many trapped people.

　　Late at night on August 1, officers and men of the Armed Police Hebei Corps rushed to Zhuozhou to carry out flood control and rescue tasks. Hundreds of party member backbone charged in the front line of disaster relief, and a commando team composed of 15 water-based excellent party member took an assault boat and went upstream along Sunshine Street. After a night of rescue, more than 300 affected people were successfully transferred to resettlement sites.

　　On August 10th, the main road and courtyard of Bao ‘an Village in Kaiyuan Town, Lan Shu City, Jilin Province were heavily silted, which greatly affected the efficiency of post-disaster reconstruction. "party member, come with me!" At the command of the commander, Jilin detachment of Jilin Armed Police Corps formed a party member vanguard team to rush to the local area to help 85 villagers from 42 households clear silt, clean houses and level the farm yard.

　　Back and forth galloping rescue, attacking and charging again and again, and retrograde fighting one after another … … From the North China Plain to Baishan Heishui, the people’s soldiers once again proved by actions that the people’s army is always a heroic army that the party and the people can completely trust!