The Education Committee of Karamay City and the Education and Training Center of Xinjiang Petroleum Administration Bureau held a special performance in Karamay Friendship Hall to welcome the evaluation and acceptance team of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's "two basics" (basically popularizing nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminating illiteracy among young people). 796 students, teachers and relevant leaders from 7 middle schools and 8 primary schools in the city participated. During the performance, around 18: 20, the stage screen was burned by the light beam, and the fire quickly spread to the theater. Various combustible substances produce a lot of harmful gases after burning. As many security doors of the Friendship Pavilion were locked, 325 people died.
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Online spontaneous mourning has been going on for several years. The earliest commemorative article that can be found on the Internet was written in 1998 "The flame of the past burns the mother of the present". In addition to mourning the victims, the article also expressed concern for their mothers. "Some families who lost their children disintegrated; There are also some relatively silent couples who moved out of this place with deep pain. From 65438 to 0998, the Internet was still in its infancy in China, and this article did not appear in the eyes of netizens until 2003. In 2003, Karamay will be remembered-the Ninth Anniversary of Karamay Fire made many people "cry after reading it, and cry every time they repeated it".
Then, in 2004, there were ten Zhou Nianji fires in Karamay, and in 2005, 1 1 anniversary: to commemorate the victims of Karamay fire. So far, the fire has echoed a sentence:' students don't move, let the leaders go first!' "This is the first paragraph of" Karamay Fire Ten Zhou Nianji ","Let the leaders go first! " It is the most mentioned sentence by netizens.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Xinjiang Karamay Fire