Time of earthquake origin
1 June 9961day at 20: 49.
Epicenter position
Gulang County, Gansu Province, China
important
According to the investigation of magnitude 5.4, the earthquake affected 75 villages, 669 groups, 32,427 households and146,030 people in 7 townships. Among them, 2 1 village, 167 group, 2806 households, 1 1843 people. 8460 households with 35502 people were seriously affected; There are 98,685 people in 2 1 16 1 household. Zhang Jiahe, Xuanmahe, Xizhuang, Miaotaizi, Shuigou, Ximiaoergou, Shizuier, Heisongyi Village in Heisongyi Township, Xishan Fort, Wicker River, Binggoudun, Hutangwa, Chiffon Chong, Wangfugou, Gu Feng Village, Quanfeng Village in Gulang Town, Xia Feng, Shilibao Village in Shilibao Township, etc. 18. Gu Feng Township, Shilibao Village, etc. There are 56 landslides and 5 ground fissures in the county; 84 18 houses collapsed,1016 square meters, resulting in 59,900 dangerous houses, 7 188 10 square meters; 5670 sheds collapsed, covering an area of 34020 square meters, with fences 14030 meters; Loss of 6,000 kilograms of grain, destruction of 268 pieces of furniture, household appliances 12, 3 machines and tools, farm tools 18 10, 500 meters of rural power lines, 9.2 kilometers of roads, 8 bridges, and death or injury 15 horses. Four people were seriously injured and 15 was slightly injured. Only in Jiucaichong Formation, Jiucaichong Village, Gu Feng Township, 487 of the original 659 houses collapsed, 162 cracks became dangerous buildings, and only 10 houses were slightly damaged; Eighty-seven of the 93 sheds collapsed, damaging courtyard walls 1 125m, landslides 16, ground fissures in five places, destroying water cellars112 eyes, and village roads in five kilometers. The direct economic loss was 39.476 million yuan.
12 1 institutions, units, some schools, health centers (institutes), industrial and mining enterprises, etc. It has also been seriously affected in this county. Cracks appeared in 32 houses, with an area of 28,800 square meters of dangerous buildings. The public facilities in the city were seriously damaged, and the direct economic loss reached 3.34110,000 yuan.
Water conservancy facilities were damaged. Gu Feng township Liutiaohe reservoir spillway outlet masonry collapsed more than 30 square meters; The cracks in the spillway and arch bridge of Caojiahu Reservoir reach 2 cm; The water conveyance tunnel and working bridge of Shilipu Reservoir sank, the spillway lock chamber cracked, and the working bridge and lock chamber were dislocated by 5 cm. The masonry of the right abutment slope protection collapsed 10 square, and the crack of the word wall was 0.5 cm; The 35-kilometer-long Xifeng drinking water canal with 3,250 people and more than 7,000 livestock in 3 villages 15 group was cut off; The 25-kilometer-long Gu Feng main canal was seriously damaged, and cracks appeared in the urban section and the head of Gulang River main canal, which led to the failure of summer irrigation. 650 water cellars were damaged, 1 waterlogging pool was damaged, and people had difficulty drinking water, resulting in a direct economic loss of 5.38 million yuan.
The school building was seriously damaged and the teaching activities were affected. 63 schools in the county were affected by the disaster, and 24 houses collapsed, resulting in dangerous houses 1 1 19, 18904 square meters, and the collapsed walls were 950 meters. Among them, 24 schools caused 366 severely dangerous buildings with a total area of 5,754 square meters, and cracks appeared in some classroom walls, the roofs slipped and shifted, the beams broke and purlins broke, the roofs collapsed, and the doors and windows were loose. Eight schools were forced to suspend classes and students were taught in the open air. More than 30 students living in Huangyangchuan Township/kloc-0 moved out of the dormitory and had nowhere to live. The direct economic loss was 5.05 million yuan.
Health centers (institutions) were damaged. There are cracks in the walls of county hospitals, maternal and child stations, health schools, Gu Feng, Heisongyi and Gulang Town Health Centers, etc.1/health centers (institutes) and 2 1 village health stations (rooms), with 27 collapsed houses and 660 dangerous houses, with an area of1286/kl. The direct economic loss was 3.5 million yuan.
9 grain management offices (stations) 3 1 warehouses in the grain system were damaged to varying degrees, which seriously affected warehousing. The direct economic loss is 6.5438+0.06 million yuan.
Eight industrial and mining enterprises and 1 commercial enterprises were forced to stop production or semi-stop production. The cracks in the laboratory office building, power distribution room, drying machine room, workshop studio and staff dormitory of Heisongyi Cement Plant are 2160m2, and 9 sets of equipment (pieces) were scrapped due to the earthquake, so they were forced to stop production 19 hours. Cracks appeared in the office building, dormitory building and workshop of Gulang Cement Plant, and the boilers were damaged, and some workshops stopped production. There are serious cracks in two lime kilns and three workshops in the chemical plant. 55 workshops and 3 warehouses in the pharmaceutical factory were seriously damaged and stopped production 12 hours. The 204-square-meter factory building of the printing company collapsed, and the cracks in the 726-square-meter factory building and office building were damaged. The factory building of the food factory was severely cracked, and the soy sauce vermicelli workshop was forced to stop production. Gulang Town Brick and Tile Factory stopped production due to kiln collapse. The herringbone beam and brick column in the first salesroom of the hardware company were broken and forced to close down. The direct economic loss was 6.74 million yuan.
The office building of the party and government organs and the dormitory of employees' families were seriously damaged. Houses such as the county party committee, the office building of the National People's Congress, the family building of the government, the office building of the Science and Technology Commission, the office building of the Association for Science and Technology, the business building of the Agricultural Bank of China, the classroom of the Party school, and the office building of the procuratorate cannot work normally due to the disaster. The direct economic loss is 6.5438+0.06 million yuan.
The public welfare facilities in the county were destroyed. Destroy water tower 1 seat, 2 wells, 2,500m water supply pipeline, and stop water supply 19 hours. Power supply facilities were damaged and power was cut off, and communication lines were once interrupted. The direct economic loss is 6,543,800 yuan+0,800 yuan.
The earthquake caused great losses to the production and life of the people in the county, and some people in urban and rural areas were homeless and slept on the streets. According to detailed accounting, the direct economic loss caused by the earthquake reached 72.886 million yuan.
Shortly after the earthquake, heavy rain and freezing weather continued. 57 villagers' groups in seven towns including Heisongyi, Shilibao, Jing Quan, Huangyangchuan, Huanghuatan, Gancheng and Liang Heng suffered floods.
The affected area of crops is 36,930 mu. Among them, the disaster was severe15,244 mu, 4,690 mu was rejected, 2,306 mu of farmland was washed away, 57 kilometers of rural roads were destroyed, and 26 drinking wells were used for people and animals. 80 livestock (only) were killed or injured. Causing direct economic losses of 6,543,800 yuan+600,000 yuan.
The temperature in the southern mountainous area dropped by 8.3℃, causing 43 villages in Gu Feng, Heisongyi, Liang Heng and Gancheng to suffer from freezing rain and snow. The affected area of crops is 102 175 mu, of which 37,300 mu is severely frozen, of which 1 1702 mu. The direct economic loss was 2,063,300 yuan.
Natural disasters such as floods, snowstorms and frosts have occurred one after another, which has made the people in the disaster areas fall into more difficult difficulties and brought great difficulties to the earthquake relief work. Five minutes after the earthquake, the county reported the relevant situation to the province and the ground. At the same time, according to the earthquake response measures in Gulang County, Chai Erli, secretary of the county party committee, and Xu Wenshan, the county magistrate, immediately convened an emergency meeting of the earthquake relief headquarters, made rapid arrangements, and immediately organized a disaster investigation team and rescue team led by the leaders of the county party committee and the county government. In the case of narrow mountain roads and impassable roads, they crossed the mountains and walked to Heisongyi and Gu Feng Township, which were seriously affected by the disaster, to direct rescue on the spot, organize people to evacuate dangerous houses, eliminate dangers and treat the wounded. In the early morning, 37 leading cadres from civil affairs, public security, health, finance and other departments 18 were dispatched to form a powerful earthquake relief working group. The soldiers rushed to the severely affected areas in five ways, and together with rural cadres, they investigated the disaster situation and nuclear disaster in detail from village to village, consoled the affected people and stabilized their mood. Vice Governor Cui, Provincial Seismological Bureau and Civil Affairs Department, Deputy Secretary of the prefectural Party Committee Yang Xingchang, Deputy Secretary of the prefectural Party Committee Zeng Jiwei, and Deputy Commissioners Zhang Ming and Jiao Tiancheng also rushed to the scene in time to check the disaster situation and guide the work. Six leaders in the county who contacted the towns and villages in the disaster area also visited the scene to direct disaster relief. The county has also set up an office of earthquake relief headquarters, with five groups, which are responsible for handling the daily affairs of earthquake relief in the county, implementing major decisions and arrangements for earthquake relief, and doing a good job in disaster verification, material distribution, publicity and reporting, situation summary and logistics services. Civil affairs, water conservancy, public security, education commission, health, rural power, posts and telecommunications, earthquake, urban construction, publicity, food and other departments go all out to fight earthquake relief. Except for a leader in Baocun, a key township, all other comrades have devoted themselves to earthquake relief work. At the same time, the county also transferred personnel from the department to let a county-level department comrade work in key villages in the disaster area. All departments and units take earthquake relief work as the top priority, fully support earthquake relief, and invite people to get off the bus and get in and out. Villages and towns in the disaster areas have also set up earthquake relief teams, with 167 rural cadres specializing in disaster relief work. In Jiucaichong, Gu Feng Township, a leading group for earthquake relief was set up, consisting of 12 people, which was divided into four groups to be responsible for labor deployment, road emergency repair, danger elimination, material receiving, management and distribution, and liaison. Although the houses in the village basically collapsed, the disaster relief work was well organized and effective, effectively preventing the occurrence of secondary disasters.
Demolition of more than 500 dangerous houses, demolition of more than 400 dangerous houses, reinforcement of more than 0/00 houses, construction of more than 200 earthquake-proof sheds, shed film 1400 kilograms, wood 1400 pieces, and resale of 200,000 kilograms of grain, and construction of simple sheds to enable students to resume classes. Seven medical staff treated the sick and wounded in the village and carried out comprehensive epidemic prevention. The completion of road 15km greatly facilitated the development of disaster relief work.
All parties work closely together to rescue and provide disaster relief. In view of the fact that after the earthquake, aftershocks continued, the temperature plummeted, heavy rains suddenly occurred, people were short of food and clothing, slept in the wind, and were depressed, so the county took emergency measures. First, medical personnel were transferred from counties and townships, and eight medical teams were stationed in village groups to treat the wounded, promote health, distribute disinfectant drugs, strengthen disease detection and water quality detection, and treat the wounded 180 people (times), effectively preventing the occurrence of epidemics. Second, give full play to the role of county, township and village rescue teams, fight day and night, spread sand and fill pits, widen the road surface, repair eight roads leading to the hardest hit areas in counties and townships for 73 kilometers, and newly open up 3 kilometers, with earthwork excavation 16000 cubic meters and investment1000 person-days. The masses voluntarily gave up young crops and widened roads, restored traffic in the shortest time, and ensured the transportation and distribution of relief materials. At the same time, 4,670 dangerous houses were cleared and demolished, and 364 dangerous places were eliminated. 5890 houses were reinforced, 3870 temporary earthquake-proof sheds and 7 simple teaching sheds were built, which temporarily solved the problem of open-air classes in five schools. The third is to deploy manpower from the public security department, strengthen the public security prevention in the disaster-stricken towns, and do a good job in the evacuation and appeasement of the masses. Some village groups in key disaster areas spontaneously set up night patrols to take turns on duty, and no major chaos and public security cases occurred during the earthquake. Fourth, organize electric power, post and telecommunications, urban construction, transportation and other departments to find out the reasons, troubleshoot and restore normal water supply, power supply, communication and transportation as soon as possible. At the same time, the monitoring of key facilities such as reservoirs, power supply, transportation and communication and key areas prone to landslides, landslides and floods has been strengthened to prevent new disasters.
Timely organize disaster relief materials to support disaster areas. On the second day after the earthquake, the county squeezed out 500,000 yuan of funds, 250,000 Jin of grain, 200 bags of flour, 695 pieces of wood and 3 tons of shed film from special funds and relief food, and transported them to the particularly hard-hit areas. Cadres and workers in many units actively offer love to the disaster areas, donate money and materials, and help the people in the disaster areas tide over the difficulties in send warm. Provincial and local departments and other provinces and cities also called to express their condolences. The prefectural party committee and administrative office organized the transportation of 60 cubic meters of timber, 2.5 tons of shed film and 250 volumes of linoleum to the disaster area. After learning about the disaster, five comrades from the provincial aid team quickly came from Lanzhou to help with earthquake relief and donated money to 500 yuan. The leaders of the four major teams in the county and the leading cadres in party member took the lead in donating money, giving great care and support to the people in the disaster areas both materially and spiritually. The county sent these emergency supplies to the disaster area in time. Many people in the disaster areas burst into tears when they saw the relief materials such as wood and flour, and thanked them again and again. They said from the bottom of their hearts: it is better to produce the party and socialism, and the government can be reliable at the critical moment. They spontaneously lined up to welcome the disaster relief team, send water to say hello, help push vehicles, pull people to carry and pull materials. The scene is very touching. Strengthen ideological and political propaganda work. First, organize propaganda, radio and other propaganda departments to go deep into the front line of disaster relief to conduct on-the-spot interviews, collect materials, organize manuscripts, and quickly deliver news and provide information to news media such as radio and newspapers. People's Daily, China Youth Daily, Gansu Daily, Gansu Economic News, Yangcheng Evening News, Xinmin Evening News, Lanzhou Evening News, Wuwei Daily, CCTV, provincial TV stations, radio stations, regional TV stations and other news organizations have reported the disaster situation and earthquake relief in our county. At the same time, the county also recorded the scene, filmed feature films, posted more than 600 slogans and hung 28 banners at the main intersections of urban and rural areas and villages in the hardest hit areas, and carried out comprehensive, objective and timely publicity, which was widely concerned and deeply concerned by other provinces and all walks of life. Second, in combination with disaster investigation and nuclear disaster relief, we should widely publicize the concern and support of the Party and the government for the people in the disaster areas, publicize the typical deeds in earthquake relief, publicize the selfless assistance from all walks of life to the people in Gulang, and publicize the new socialist fashion that one party is in trouble and all parties support it, further stabilizing the mood of cadres and the masses, enhancing their confidence and courage in earthquake relief, making the people in the disaster areas feel refreshed and confident, giving full play to the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, and adopting various forms to carry out earthquake relief and self-help. Third, taking this earthquake as an opportunity, we should widely publicize and educate the masses not to be careless and panic by issuing publicity materials and broadcasting TV films, so that the masses can understand the basic knowledge of earthquakes and common sense of earthquake resistance and earthquake prevention, further enhance the awareness of earthquake resistance and earthquake prevention of cadres in the county, and improve their quality of earthquake resistance and earthquake prevention.
The first step in the resettlement and reconstruction of the victims is to further organize manpower. On the basis of the previous work, according to the detailed, practical and accurate requirements, the disaster investigation and nuclear disaster work were carried out in depth and in detail from village to village. In order to accurately grasp the disaster situation, in accordance with the relevant regulations, the county has uniformly formulated and issued standards for particularly major disasters, major disasters and minor disasters, completed the disaster verification and registration of most village groups, and found out and mastered the basic situation, disaster degree and self-help ability of affected households, laying a good foundation and providing a reliable basis for rebuilding their homes. Second, the material management and distribution system and fund management methods have been established, and special accounts are stored and managed by special personnel, ensuring the accurate and timely distribution of disaster relief materials. Third, while organizing the masses to strengthen and repair houses, according to the requirements of earthquake resistance, we organized manpower to formulate detailed plans and planning and design schemes for infrastructure maintenance, reinforcement and reconstruction, and actively prepared materials. Fourth, the county party committee and the county government formulated and issued the "Arrangement Opinions on Further Improving Earthquake Relief Work", which made careful arrangements from the aspects of organization and leadership, publicity and education, material management, disaster investigation and nuclear disaster, and reconstruction of homes.
By the end of 1996, emergency funds, building funds19500 yuan, disaster relief grain of 2.4 million kilograms, donations of 67,000 yuan from 84 units, supply of improved varieties14000 kilograms, and distribution of 680 bags of chemical fertilizers have been made successively, which has solved the difficulties of severely affected households and damaged schools of 2/kloc- 1 1 13 housing reconstruction, 10247 housing renovation. The production and life of the victims have been properly arranged and the earthquake relief has won. There are likely to be aftershocks after the earthquake, and the location of the aftershocks may not be very close to the source. So learning to save yourself is one of the most important measures after the earthquake.
When an earthquake happens, it is very important to keep a clear head and a calm attitude. Only by keeping calm, it is possible to judge the size and distance of the earthquake by using the knowledge of earthquake prevention that you usually learn. Recent earthquakes often start with ups and downs and then swing from side to side. The teleseism is not so bumpy, but it is mainly shaking from side to side, with clear voice and small vibration. Generally, small earthquakes and distant earthquakes do not have to flee. It can be seen that although earthquakes cannot be completely avoided and controlled by human beings, disasters can be minimized as long as they can master the skills of self-help and mutual rescue. There are the following points:
1. It is very important to keep calm in the earthquake. It is observed that many innocent people died not because their houses collapsed, but because of mental breakdown, thus losing the hope of survival, shouting and killing themselves in extreme fear. This is because yelling will accelerate metabolism, increase oxygen consumption, and reduce physical strength and tolerance; At the same time, yelling is bound to inhale a lot of smoke and dust, which is easy to cause suffocation and increase unnecessary casualties. The correct attitude is to keep calm in any harsh environment, analyze the environment, find a way out and wait for rescue.
2. Hemostasis, fixed crush injury and crush injury are common injuries in earthquakes. Open wounds and external bleeding should stop bleeding first, raise the affected limb and call for help at the same time. For open fractures, site reduction should not be performed to prevent tissue injury again. Generally, clean gauze should be used to cover the wound surface and simple fixation should be carried out before operation. Fractures in different parts should be fixed according to different requirements. They were classified according to different injuries and sent to the hospital for further treatment.
3. When properly handling the crush injury of the wound, try to relieve the heavy pressure as soon as possible. If you encounter a large area of trauma, keep the wound clean and wrap it with clean gauze. If you suspect tetanus and aerogenes infection, you should immediately contact the hospital for timely diagnosis and treatment. For large-scale trauma and severe trauma, oral sugar salt water can be taken to prevent shock.
4. Preventing fires and earthquakes often causes many "secondary disasters", and fire is a common one. When a fire breaks out, you should leave the scene of the fire as soon as possible, take off your burning clothes, or cover yourself with wet clothes, or roll on the ground, or splash water directly to put out the fire. Don't beat the flame with your hand, or you will burn your hand. After being bandaged with sterile gauze or clean cloth, they are sent to the hospital for further treatment.
5. At the same time, it is necessary to prevent tetanus and gas gangrene, bury the body as soon as possible, pay attention to the hygiene of diet and drinking water, and prevent a post-disaster pandemic.
1On May 23rd, 927, an earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred in Gulang. The earthquake affected Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi and other places, and a big ditch about 5 meters wide and 200 meters long subsided. The Shuixiakou Buddhist Temple collapsed, and all the stone tablets in the temple twisted and fell to the northwest. "Shengjing Times" recorded the horror of the earthquake damage in Wuwei County and its surrounding areas: "The earthquake suddenly broke, the valley cracked for a while, and the sun was dark. Sixty-seven out of ten urban houses collapsed.
1On August 25th, 933, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 occurred in Diexi, Maowen County. It was unusually hot that day, and suddenly there was a thunderbolt, which turned it upside down and was deafening. The violent vibration lasted for a minute, and there were big cracks everywhere on the earth. As soon as the cracks opened and closed, yellow smoke was ejected from them and soared into the sky. Diexi City was destroyed after the earthquake. There is a Jackie Chan Temple in the east of the city, with broken columns and fallen beams, which is the only remaining building in the city. There are no traces of 278 houses in the city. The landslide caused by the earthquake blocked the Minjiang River in three places and became three "earthquake lakes". Longchi, which faces Longchi Mountain in Diexi City, is one of the eight scenic spots in Diexi. After the earthquake, the pool water dried up. The top of the third weir is about 300m thick and100m high. It is the strongest, largest and most impounded weir among the three weirs. three
A weir cut off the Minjiang River for 43 days, and the river flowed back more than 20 kilometers. 45 days after the earthquake, that is, at 7: 00 on October 9, 65438/kloc-0, the dam burst and the flood peak reached Maowen county, 20 kilometers away from/kloc-0, until it reached Leshan county, 260 kilometers away from Diexi. According to the investigation of guanxian Water Conservancy Research Association, more than 16O people died in the county, and more than 4000 mu of cultivated land was destroyed. Qin Long, a geologist at that time, counted the losses of Diexi earthquake. The mountains, hills and rivers around Diexi River, 30 miles away, all collapsed, and Fiona Fang was the hardest hit area for hundreds of kilometers, killing more than 6,800 people. When the flood burst, more than half of the towns and villages above guanxian were washed away and more than 2,500 people died. The two "Haizi" created by the earthquake have been preserved to this day, like sapphires embedded in mountains, becoming a major landscape for tourists.
After a heavy snow, this small county town surrounded by mountains on three sides at the foot of Qilian Mountain was covered with a layer of snow, almost connected with the snow-capped mountains far and near.
Gulang County is located at the eastern end of Hexi Corridor, with Jingtai in the east, Tianzhu in the south, Wuwei in the northwest and Alashan Zuo Qi in Inner Mongolia in the northeast. It is the hub of the ancient Silk Road.
Provincial Highway 308 and Jiangxi-Wuhan Railway run through the east and west. National Highway 3 12 is the national highway from Shanghai to Yining, Xinjiang, with a length of 46 kilometers and a north-south trend. Provincial Highway 308 is named "Hai (Ningxia Haiyuan) Gu (Lang)" Highway, which connects with National Highway 3 12 at the Twin Towers, and the county is 99.7 kilometers long.
There are only 398,000 people in Gulang County, and there are 9 ethnic groups including Han, Tibetan, Hui, Tu, Man, Dongxiang, Maonan, Mongolian and Yao. This small county town is buried with the pain of major earthquakes and wars in distant years, but it is gradually forgotten by people.
Gulang is on the road to development.
Counties facing relocation
The name of Gulang comes from Tibetan, which means the place where antelopes haunt. But I didn't see antelope in Gulang, but I saw several deer sculptures in the roadside park.
In the county seat, 80' s style bungalow buildings can be seen everywhere. The wall was painted with a layer of rough cement, and several overlapping diamond patterns were inlaid with stones of different colors. The more modern place in the whole county is the newly-built building near the west expressway, and a large number of houses with civil structures can even be seen in other places.
This county town under Qilian Mountain was destroyed in 1927, and the intensity of the great earthquake in the northwest of Gulang County reached 1 1. According to the county records, "the houses in the whole city collapsed", and the death toll reached more than 4,000.
But this experience has gradually blurred. Approaching a group of old people who are playing chess and basking in the sun, when I asked the oldest old man with a long white beard about the 1927 earthquake, he looked confused and the people around him didn't know much about it.
Of course, if the witness is alive, the youngest should be 85 years old. Follow the road pointed by the old people to Gulang Cultural Center. They said that there was a museum that recorded great earthquakes, but it was closed at the weekend.
But this earthquake had a great impact, and it is still affecting the development of ancient waves until now.
On 2011August 3 1, the master plan of the core area of urban-rural integration development in Wuwei, Gansu experimental area was promulgated, and the spatial development pattern of "one axis, two cities and three groups" was put forward.
"One axis" refers to the central axis of development with Jinda Expressway as the core area, and its function is to form the spine and aorta of the spatial organization in the core area. The road started on 20 10, with a total investment of 4.559 billion yuan and a total length of 158.64 km. It runs through 22 towns in Liangzhou District and Gulang County, and connects 8 industrial parks including Wuwei Goldsun New Energy High-tech Concentration Zone and Tumen Industrial Park in Gulang County. Gulang industrial concentration area, which is characterized by fine chemicals, building materials, food processing and biopharmaceuticals, is distributed along this axis.
"Twin Cities" include Liangzhou and Dajing Town in the east of Gulang County. "Liangzhou City" and "Dajingcheng" are connected by Jinda Expressway, with one west and one east, one master and one deputy. "Planning" clearly puts forward that Dajing City should be built according to the future county location, assume the function of Gulang County as the central city, guide the focus of county economic and social construction to move northward, and develop into the southeast gateway and important node town connecting the "Bailan Economic Circle" in Wuwei City, and gradually assume the function of the sub-central town in the core area of urban-rural integration development.
With the economic center shifting to Dajing, Gulang County is facing the fate of relocation.
Despite the vigorous pace of opening up, people's lives are still the same as before. Walking on the street of the county, a shoe store is playing the most dazzling ethnic style, and a grocery store next to it is playing a love transaction like a game. Farther away, elegant foreign songs come from a high-end mobile phone operator's shop, stepping on the muddy water mixed with snowmelt and soil, from popular to elegant, so close.
Silent past
On the high ground next to Longquan Park, stands a black monument with a bayonet of a pike carved on it, and in front of it is a circular grave covered with weeds with cement hoops. The black tombstone is engraved with "Tomb of the Martyrs of the Ninth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army West Road Army". More than 2,200 soldiers of the Ninth Army of the Red Army West Road Army are buried here. 1936, they followed the team of more than 2 1800 marked troops from Gulang to Hexi Corridor.
In Gulang, marked with the pursuit of Ma Bufang army played three battles, marked the ninth army suffered heavy losses. There is a saying that "the ancient waves fought three wars and the nine armies were halved." Hexi Corridor is the sphere of influence of Ma Bufang, a warlord who occupied Xining with "Qingma". When the marked army entered this area, it broke into the territory of Qingma and was severely besieged. In Gulang Gorge, the marked army and Qingma launched the first head-on contest, but the ninth army, which lured the enemy deep, suffered heavy losses. The defeat of Gulang was only a prelude to the total annihilation of marked army in Hexi.
Fu Shuo, a 62-year-old cleaner and grave-sweeper in the park, was called the "mass grave" next to the park, where soldiers of the Ninth Army, civilians and some soldiers were buried. He carefully cleaned the fallen leaves on the steps and told me that people from Lanzhou Military Region would come to sweep the tomb of the martyrs tomorrow.
Surprisingly, he knew about the Gulang earthquake. His elders once told him about the "Republic of China 16 earthquake", and he corrected my statement of "1927 earthquake". At that time, all the caves at the foot of this Gulangxia Mountain were collapsed by the earthquake, causing numerous casualties. Nine years later, the Red Army and Ma Jiajun fought bloody battles here, and more than 2,400 people died here.
Zhong Shi Fu Shuo, few people come here at ordinary times. My son and daughter-in-law have all gone out to work, so I will bring my grandchildren to play when I have time. When he was sweeping the floor, his 9-year-old granddaughter and 7-year-old grandson were playing nearby. When I asked the shy little boy where he went to school, he just bowed his head and fiddled with the leaves in his hand.
"Go to Lanzhou to go to college when you grow up?" I asked, but he was still embarrassed to answer.
"Go to Beijing to go to college in the future." Grandpa answered for him. He continued to sweep the fallen leaves and rustled in this empty and dead place.
1On May 23rd, 927, an earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred in Gulang. The earthquake affected Gansu, Qinghai and Shaanxi. Wuwei, Tarzhuang, Zhangyibao, Heisongyi and Huangyangchuan were seriously damaged. Gulang county was seriously damaged. According to the "Gulang County Records", "It was dawn at that time, and the first earthquake was still weak ... After a while, it came again. There was a thunderbolt, Gu Yingshan sang, and dozens of feet of yellow dust filled the air, and suddenly the world was different. There is no light in the sun and the moon, the castle is razed to the ground, the mountains and rivers are changing, the lanes are difficult to distinguish, and there is a painful voice in the distance. ..... Statistics show that the urban and rural (dead) population is more than 4,000, and the number of cattle, sheep and horses (dead) reaches 30,000. " There are many cracks in the fields in Shuangta area, and a big ditch with a width of about 5 meters and a length of about 200 meters sinks flat. The Shuixiakou Buddhist Temple collapsed, and all the stone tablets in the temple twisted and fell to the northwest. Shengjing Times recorded the tragic situation that Wuwei County and its surrounding areas were destroyed by the earthquake: "Suddenly, the valley cracked and the sun darkened. Sixty-seven out of ten urban houses collapsed, and the rich area became a pile of ruins, a Millennium monument. At the same time, it was also a catastrophe, with cries shaking the earth and thousands of wells smokeless. The earthquake disaster has never been so cruel and serious as this one. After detailed investigation, Wuwei County alone has a population of 35,495 (the original population is more than 80,000), 222,095 cattle, sheep and livestock, collapsed villages19,399, 4 houses18,442, and cracked fields123,669 mu, resulting in countless casualties. " At that time, most seismic stations in the world, such as Shanghai Xujiahui Station, Leningrad Station, Zurich Station and Strasbourg Station, clearly recorded the earthquake.