On June 1, 1996, an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Gulang County, which was strongly felt in all towns and villages in the county, and was strongly felt in the county and seven towns and villages, such as Gufeng, Hesongyi, Gulang, Shibaribao, Huangyangchuan, Dingning, Sishui, and other towns and villages, which were severely affected by the disaster, resulting in landslides, collapses of houses, subsidence of foundations, injuries to people, and deaths of animals and injuries to livestock. The massive quake was followed by more than 60 aftershocks, the largest measuring 3.0 on the Richter scale.
The moment of the earthquake
June 1, 1996, 20:49
Location of the epicenter
Gulang County, Gansu Province, China
Earthquake magnitude
5.4 After the investigation and verification, the quake has caused disasters to 75 villages in 7 townships and 669 groups, 32,427 households and 146,030 people. Among them, 21 villages, 167 groups, 2,806 households and 11,843 people were particularly hard hit; 8,460 households and 35,502 people were hard hit; and 21,161 households and 98,685 people were lightly hit. Heisongyi Township of Zhangjiahe, Xuanmahe, Xizhuang, Miaotaizi, Shuigou, West Miaoligou, Shizui child, Heisongyi Village, Gufeng Township of Xishanbao, Liuzhihe, Binggoudun, Hutangwa, leek Chong, Wangfugou, Gufeng Village, Gulang Township, Giaofeng, Fenquan Village, eighteen LiBao Township eighteen LiBao Village, etc. 18 villages and the county urban areas of the three neighborhoods are particularly badly affected. Gufeng Township, Gulang Township, Hesongyi Township and other three township government, 21 village committee office buildings were also seriously damaged. The county 56 landslides, 5 ground cracks; collapsed houses 8418, 101016 square meters, resulting in 59,900 dangerous houses, 718810 square meters; collapsed shacks 5670, 34020 square meters, 14,030 meters of fences; loss of 6000 kg of food, destroyed 268 pieces of furniture, household appliances, 12 units (pieces), 3 sets of machinery (pieces), agricultural tools 1810 pieces, 500 meters of agricultural power lines, roads 9.2 kilometers, 8 damaged bridges, deaths and injuries to 15 head of livestock (horses), pigs and goats 560 mouth (only); serious injuries to 4 people, slightly injured 15 people. Only the ancient Fengxiang leek punch village leek punch group, the original 659 houses, collapsed 487, cracks 162, become dangerous, only 10 less damaged; 93 shacks collapsed 87, damage to the courtyard wall 1125 meters, landslides 16, ground cracks 5, destroyed 112 eyes of the water cellar, the village road 5 kilometers. Direct economic losses of 39,476,000 yuan.
County 121 departments, units and some schools, health centers (Institute), industrial and mining enterprises were also seriously affected, 32 buildings cracked, dangerous buildings in an area of 28,800 square meters, the city's public welfare facilities were severely damaged, the direct economic losses amounted to 33.41 million yuan.
Water conservancy facilities were damaged. Located in Gufeng Township in the territory of the Willow River reservoir spillway exit masonry collapse more than 30 square meters; Caojia Lake reservoir spillway and arch bridge cracks up to 2 cm; eighteen miles of Fort Reservoir water transfer holes and work bridge subsidence, the spillway gate chamber cracks, the work of the bridge and the gate chamber dislocation of 5 centimeters; the right shoulder of the dam shoulder berm masonry collapse of 10 square meters, a word wall cracks 0.5 centimeters; for 3 villages, 15 groups of 3,250 people, more than 7,000 ( horse ) large and small livestock drinking water, and the water supply. (horse) size livestock drinking water for 3 villages and 15 groups of 3,250 people, more than 7,000 head ( horse) 35 kilometers long Xifeng livestock drinking water canals broken; total length of 25 kilometers of the Gufeng trunk canals were seriously damaged, the Gulang River trunk canals in the urban area, the Gulang canal head crack damage, resulting in the summer irrigation can not be carried out normally; damage to the cellar of 650 eyes, flooded pools, the masses of drinking water in the event of difficulties, the direct economic losses of 5.38 million yuan.
School houses are seriously damaged, teaching activities have been affected. The county's 63 schools into the disaster, the collapse of 24 houses, resulting in 1119 dangerous houses, 18904 square meters, collapsed walls 950 meters. Among them, 24 schools caused serious dangerous houses 366 5754 square meters, part of the classroom wall cracks, roof sliding displacement, beams broken purlins, roof collapse, loose doors and windows, 8 schools were forced to suspend classes, students open-air classes. Huangyangchuan Xiangzhong more than 130 resident students moved out of the dormitory, no place to stay. Direct economic losses of 5.05 million yuan.
Health centers (institutes) were damaged. County hospital, maternal and child station, health school, Gufeng, Heisongyi, Gulang Township Health Center and other 11 health centers (institutes) and 21 village health stations (rooms) wall cracks, collapsed 27 houses, 660 dangerous houses, an area of 12,861 square meters, collapsed 20 meters of the fence, and some of the equipment and medicines were damaged. Direct economic losses of 3.5 million yuan.
The grain system 9 grain management offices (stations) of 31 warehouses were damaged to varying degrees, seriously affecting the storage. Direct economic losses of 1.06 million yuan.
Eight industrial and mining enterprises and one commercial stream enterprise were forced to suspend or semi-suspend production. Hesongyi cement factory laboratory office building, distribution room, dryer room, workshop studio, staff dormitory cracks 2160 square meters, because of the earthquake scrapped 9 sets of equipment (pieces), was forced to stop production for 19 hours. Gulang Cement Plant office building, dormitory building, workshop cracks in many places, boiler damage, part of the workshop shut down. Chemical plant 2 lime kiln, 3 workshops and other serious cracks. Pharmaceutical factory 55 workshops, 3 warehouses are seriously damaged, shut down production for 12 hours. Printing company 204 square meters workshop collapsed, 726 square meters workshop and office building crack damage. Foodstuffs Factory workshop was seriously cracked, soy sauce vermicelli workshop was forced to stop production. Gulang Town Brick and Tile Factory was shut down due to the collapse of the kiln. Hardware Company, the first storefront man-beams, brick columns fractured, forced to shut down. Direct economic losses of 6.74 million yuan.
Party and government organizations office buildings and workers' family quarters were seriously damaged. The county party committee, the National People's Congress office building, the government family building, the science committee, the Association of Science and Technology office building, the Agricultural Bank of China business building, the party school classroom, the Procuratorate office building and other housing due to the disaster can not be normal office. Direct economic losses of 10.6 million yuan.
The county public welfare facilities were damaged. Destroyed 1 water tower, 2 wells, water supply pipeline break 2500 meters, 19 hours without water. Power supply facilities were damaged blackout, communication lines were once interrupted. Direct economic losses of 1.08 million yuan.
The earthquake made the county people's production and life suffered huge losses, urban and rural part of the masses homeless, sleeping outdoors on the streets. According to detailed accounting, the earthquake caused direct economic losses amounted to 7288.6 million yuan.
Shortly after the earthquake, there were heavy rain and freezing weather. Fifty-seven villages and groups in seven townships, including Hesongyi, Shibaribao, Jingquan, Huangyangchuan, Huanghuatan, Gancheng and Hengliang, were hit by floods.
Crops affected an area of 36,930 mu. Among them, the severely affected 15,244 acres, 4,690 acres of seedlings, washed away 2306 acres of farmland, 57 kilometers of rural roads, 26 wells for drinking water for people and animals. Death and injury of large and small livestock 80 (only). Caused direct economic losses of 1.6 million yuan.
Southern mountain temperatures plummeted 8.3 ℃, resulting in Gufeng, Heisongyi, Hengliang, Dry City, four townships of 43 villages suffered from snow and frost disaster, the crop affected area of 102,175 acres, the freezing of 37,300 acres, of which 11,702 acres of seedling extinction. Direct economic losses of 206.33 million yuan.
Floods, snow and frost and other natural disasters occurred one after another, so that the people in the disaster area into a more difficult predicament, to the earthquake relief work has brought great difficulty. Five minutes after the earthquake, the county that is to the province, the local report on the situation. At the same time in accordance with the "Gulang County big earthquake countermeasures program", the county party secretary Chaili, county governor Xu Wenshan immediately convened an emergency meeting of the earthquake relief headquarters, the rapid deployment of arrangements, immediately organized a disaster investigation team and rescue teams, led by the county party committee, the county government, in the narrow mountain roads, roads are not accessible under the circumstances of the mountain walks over the mountains, rushed overnight to the severely affected Heisong stage, Gufeng township, the scene to direct the rescue and organizing the masses evacuated! Dangerous houses, remove dangerous situations, rescue and treatment of injured people. In the early hours of the morning, 37 leading cadres from 18 departments, including civil affairs, public security, health, finance, etc., were deployed to form a strong earthquake relief working group, which rushed to the hardest-hit areas in five directions, and worked with rural cadres to conduct detailed disaster investigation and verification village by village, group by group, and household by household, to comfort the affected people and stabilize the mood of the masses. Vice Governor Cui Zhenghua, the Provincial Earthquake Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Deputy Secretary of the Executive Yuan Commissioner Yang Xingchang, Deputy Secretary of the local party committee Zeng Jiwei, Deputy Commissioner Zhang Ming, Jiao Tiancheng also rushed to the scene in a timely manner, to check the situation and guide the work. The county's six leaders who contacted the townships in the disaster area also came to the scene to direct the disaster relief. The county also set up an earthquake relief headquarters office, set up five groups, responsible for dealing with the county's daily affairs of the earthquake, the implementation of major decisions and deployments of the earthquake relief, specifically to do a good job in the verification of the disaster, the distribution of supplies, publicity and reporting, summary of the situation, logistics and other matters. Civil affairs, water conservancy, public security, education, health, agriculture, electricity, post and telecommunications, earthquake, urban construction, publicity, food and other departments to go all out to earthquake relief, the key townships to help the village departments in addition to stay a leader to deal with normal business, the rest of the comrades are into the earthquake relief work. At the same time, the county and from the department of personnel, so that the key villages in the disaster area have a county department comrades in the village to carry out work. All departments and units take the earthquake relief work as the top priority, fully support the earthquake relief work, to car out of the car, to people in and out. The townships and villages in the disaster area have also set up earthquake relief groups, with 167 rural cadres specializing in disaster relief work. Seven intensity anomalies of the Gufeng Township leek group set up by 12 people composed of earthquake relief leading group, under the four groups were responsible for the deployment of labor, repair roads, remove the danger, acceptance, management, distribution of supplies and liaison work. Although the village houses basically collapsed, but because of the disaster relief work is well organized, effective measures, and thus effectively prevent the occurrence of secondary disasters.
Excluding more than 500 dangerous houses, eliminating more than 400 dangerous situations, reinforcing 100 houses, building earthquake-proof shed more than 1,200, sent shed film 1,400 kilograms, wood 1,040, back to the sale of grain 200,000 kilograms, the construction of a simple shed so that the students resumed classes. 7 medical personnel to the village of the sick and wounded treatment, comprehensive epidemic prevention. Repaired the road 15 kilometers, greatly facilitating the relief work.
All parties closely cooperate, all-out rescue and relief For the big earthquake just after the aftershocks, the temperature plummeted, sudden rainfall, the masses lack of food and clothing, the wind and food and sleep, the idea of depression, depressed mood of the situation, the county has taken emergency measures. First, from the county and townships to draw medical personnel, divided into eight medical team stationed in villages and groups, rescue and treatment of injured people, carry out health propaganda, the distribution of disinfectant medicines, strengthened the epidemic detection and water quality testing, medical treatment of sick and injured people 180 people (times), effectively preventing the occurrence of epidemic diseases. Second, give full play to the role of the county village group rescue team, working around the clock, paving sand filling pits, widening the road, repair the county townships leading to the hardest-hit areas of the eight roads 73 kilometers, 3 kilometers of the new, take digging 16,000 square meters of soil and stone, invested in 11,000 man-days. The masses took the initiative to give up the green land to widen the road, in the shortest possible time to restore the traffic, to ensure the transportation of relief supplies issued. Meanwhile, 4670 dangerous houses were cleared and dismantled, and 364 dangerous situations were removed. Reinforcement of 5890 houses, build temporary earthquake-proof shed 3870, build a simple teaching shed 7, a temporary solution to the problem of open-air classes in five schools. Third, from the public security sector to deploy manpower to strengthen the urban areas and townships in the disaster area of the security precautions, to do a good job of the evacuation of the masses to appease the work of some of the key disaster areas of the villages and groups set up their own night patrols, taking turns on duty sentry, the earthquake did not occur during the chaos and law and order cases. Fourth, the organization of electric power, post and telecommunications, urban construction, transportation and other departments to find the cause, troubleshooting, with the fastest speed to restore normal water supply, power supply, communications, transportation. At the same time, strengthened the reservoir, power supply, transportation, communications and other key facilities and prone to landslides, landslides, flood inundation and other key sections of the region's guardianship, to prevent the occurrence of new disasters.
Timely organization of relief supplies to support the disaster area The day after the earthquake, the county in the very difficult financial situation, from the special funds and relief food money out of the funds 500,000 yuan, 250,000 kilograms of grain, 200 bags of flour and linoleum 190 rolls of wood 695 roots, 3 tons of film and other first aid supplies shipped to the special disaster area. Many units of cadres and workers actively send warmth and love to the disaster area, donate money and goods to support the people in the disaster area to tide over the difficulties. Provinces, the relevant departments and provinces, foreign also called to express condolences, the local party committee, the Executive Office of the organization transferred 60 square wood, 2.5 tons of film, 250 rolls of linoleum shipped to the disaster area, the province to help the task force of five comrades heard the disaster situation, quickly rushed from Lanzhou, to assist in earthquake relief and donations of 500 yuan, the county's four major groups of leaders and party members and cadres took the lead in donations from the material, spiritual to the people in the disaster area to Great care and support, there are 21 units, 451 people donated 10,565 yuan, 37 pieces of clothing, 50 rolls of linoleum. The county sent these emergency supplies to the disaster area in a timely manner, many people in the disaster area to see the delivery of wood, flour and other relief supplies, tears, thank you, said from the bottom of his heart: or **** the Communist Party is good, socialism is good, the critical moment or the government can be relied upon. They spontaneously lined up to welcome the disaster relief working group, send water to say hello, help push the vehicle, car pulling people to carry, pulling materials, the scene is very touching. Strengthening ideological, political and publicity work First, the organization of publicity, broadcasting and other publicity departments to go into the front line of the disaster relief field interviews, collect material, organization of articles, and quickly to the radio, newspapers and other news media to transmit news, provide information. People's Daily, China Youth Daily, Gansu Daily, Gansu Economic News, Yangcheng Evening News, Xinmin Evening News, Lanzhou Evening News, Wuwei News, CCTV, provincial TV and radio stations, regional TV stations and other news organizations have reported the disaster and earthquake relief in the county. At the same time the county also recorded the scene live, filmed a feature film, in the city and countryside, the main road junction and the villages of the worst-hit areas to post more than 600 slogans, hanging banners 28, comprehensive, objective and timely publicity, and get the provinces and the community's extensive attention and deep concern. Secondly, combined with the disaster investigation, verification and relief work, widely publicized the Party and the government's concern and support for the people in the disaster area, publicized the typical deeds in the earthquake relief, publicized the selfless assistance from all walks of life to the people of Gulang, publicized the new socialist trend of one party in trouble, eight parties to support, further stabilized the mood of the cadres and the masses, and strengthened the cadres and masses of the earthquake relief of confidence and courage, the masses of the disaster area, spiritually uplifted, confidence, and fully develop the The spirit of self-reliance, hard work, take various forms of earthquake self-help, began to form a unity of purpose of self-help, go all out to restore production situation. Third, take the opportunity of this earthquake, through the issuance of publicity materials, broadcast television films and other forms of extensive publicity and education of the masses do not paralyze, do not panic, so that the masses understand the basic knowledge of the earthquake, earthquake prevention and common sense, and further enhance the county's cadres and masses of earthquake prevention and awareness, and improve the quality of earthquake prevention and prevention.
Resettlement of victims and rebuild their homes A further organization of manpower, on the basis of the work of the previous period, according to the detailed, real, accurate requirements, village by village, household by household in-depth disaster investigation and verification work. In order to accurately grasp the disaster situation, the county in accordance with the relevant provisions of the unified formulation and issuance of the special disaster, disaster, light disaster standards, completed most of the villages and groups of the disaster checking and registration work, clarify and grasp the basic situation of the affected households, the extent of the disaster and the ability to self-help for the reconstruction of their homes to lay a good foundation and provide a reliable basis. Second, the establishment of material management, distribution system and fund management methods, special account storage, special management, to ensure the accurate and timely distribution of relief supplies. Third, while organizing the masses to strengthen and repair their houses, in accordance with the requirements of earthquake resistance, the organization of manpower to formulate a detailed plan and planning and design scheme for the repair, strengthening and rebuilding of infrastructure and homes, as well as actively preparing the supplies and materials. Fourth, the county party committee, the county government formulated and issued the "on further improving the arrangement of earthquake relief work," from the organization and leadership, publicity and education, material management, disaster investigation and verification, rebuilding homes and other aspects of the detailed and thorough arrangements.
By the end of 1996, has fought for the release of emergency funds, building funds of 1.95 million yuan, 2.4 million kilograms of relief food, 84 units donated 6.7 million yuan, the supply of 1.4 million kilograms of good seed, the distribution of 680 bags of fertilizer to solve the difficulties of the hardest hit households, the 21 damaged schools, quake damage to the water conservancy facilities, to complete the repairs, reconstruction and resumption of the use of the reconstruction of 1,113 houses, repair 10,247, and the reconstruction of the people's homes. Repair 10247, the production and life of the victims have been properly resettled, the victory of the earthquake relief. It is very likely that there will be aftershocks after the earthquake, and the location of the aftershocks may not be very close to the source of the earthquake. So learning to help yourself is one of the very important measures after an earthquake.
When an earthquake occurs, it is vital to have a clear head and a calm and collected attitude. Only calm, it is possible to use the knowledge of earthquake prevention usually learned and judge the size and proximity of the earthquake. Near earthquakes often start with a bumpy ride up and down, followed by a side-to-side shaking. Distant earthquakes feel less up and down, but mainly sway from side to side, and the sound is brittle and the vibration is small. Generally, small earthquakes and distant earthquakes do not need to flee. It can be seen that the earthquake, although mankind can not be completely avoided and control, but as long as you can master self-help, mutual aid skills, you can minimize the disaster. There are the following points:
1. Keep calm in the earthquake is very important, it has been observed that many innocent people are not due to the collapse of the house was smashed or crushed injuries to death, but due to the collapse of the spirit of the loss of hope for survival, shouting, screaming, in the extreme fear of "strangulation" of their own. This is because shouting and screaming will accelerate metabolism, increase oxygen consumption, reduce physical strength and tolerance; at the same time, shouting and screaming will certainly inhale a large amount of smoke and dust, which is easy to cause asphyxiation and increase the number of unnecessary injuries and deaths. The correct attitude is in any bad environment, always keep calm, analyze the environment, find a way out, and wait for rescue.
2. Hemostasis, immobilization smash and crush injuries are common injuries in earthquakes. Open trauma, external bleeding should first stop bleeding and elevate the affected limb, while calling for help. For open fractures, should not be made on-site reset to prevent tissue re-injury, generally use clean gauze to cover the wound, for simple fixation before running. Different parts of the fracture, according to different requirements for immobilization. And with reference to different injuries, injuries for classification, grading, and sent to the hospital for further treatment.
3. Proper treatment of wounds extrusion injuries, should try to remove the heavy pressure as soon as possible, encountered a large area of trauma, to keep the wound clean, with clean gauze bandage wound, suspected tetanus and gas-producing bacillus infections, should be immediately contacted with the hospital, timely diagnosis and treatment. For large trauma and severe trauma, sugar saline can be taken orally to prevent shock from occurring.
4. Prevent fire earthquake often causes many "secondary disasters", fire is a common one. In the fire should be out of the fire scene as soon as possible, take off the burning clothes and hats, or wet clothes covering the body, or lying on the ground, or rolling, you can also use water to pour directly to extinguish the fire. Never use both hands to fight the fire, otherwise it will cause burns on both hands. Sterilized gauze or clean fabric bandage and sent to the hospital for further treatment.
5. At the same time, tetanus and gas gangrene should be prevented, and the bodies should be buried as early as possible, pay attention to food and water hygiene, to prevent the pandemic after the disaster.
May 23, 1927, Gulang 8 earthquake. Earthquake waves in Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi and other places flat land subsidence a width of about 5 meters, about 200 meters long ditch. Water gorge mouth big Buddha temple collapsed, the temple stone monument all to the northwest twisted down. Shengjing Times" recorded Wuwei County and the surrounding areas suffered from the earthquake damage to the tragic situation: "the ground suddenly quake, a moment of the valley collapse, the sun is dark and no light, the city of huts collapsed six of seven,
August 25, 1933, Maowen County, Dixi 7.5 magnitude earthquake. That day was unusually hot, suddenly thunderbolt, the sky turned over, deafening. The violent vibration lasted for one minute, and large cracks appeared everywhere on the ground, opening and closing, from which yellow smoke was spewed out, reaching up to the sky. After the earthquake, the city of Dixi was destroyed. There was a Chenglong Temple in the east gap of the city, with broken pillars and disheveled beams, which was the only remaining building in the city, and there was not a single remnant of the 278 private houses in the whole city to be found. The landslide caused by the earthquake blocked the Minjiang River in three places, becoming the three major "earthquake lakes". Dixi city on the other side of the river and the dragon pool on the mountain of the dragon pool perennial water, beautiful scenery, is one of the eight scenic beauty of Dixi, after the earthquake pool water dried up. The top part of the third weir dam is about 300 meters thick and about 100 meters high, which is the strongest, the most massive and the most water storage weir of the three weirs. Three
The three weirs made the Minjiang River cut off for 43 days, and the river flowed backward for more than 20 kilometers. Forty-five days after the earthquake, that is, at 7:00 on October 9, the dike broke, the flood peak reached 120 kilometers away from the Maowen County, up to 260 kilometers from Dixi Leshan County. According to a survey by the Water Resources Research Society of Guanxian County: more than 16,000 people died in the county*** and more than 4,000 mu of ripe land were washed away. Chang Longqing, a geologist at that time, counted the damage of the Dixi earthquake. Dixi around 30 miles of mountains and rivers, all collapsed, hundreds of kilometers in a circle for the hardest-hit areas, more than 6,800 people died. Flood outburst, and irrigation county above the village and town washed away most of the dead more than 2,500 people. The earthquake created two large and small "sea" retained to this day, as if in the mountains inlaid sapphire, become a major landscape tourists.
After a heavy snowfall, this small county at the foot of the Qilian Mountains surrounded by mountains on three sides covered with a layer of white snow, and the snowy mountains near and far almost connected.
Gulang County, located in the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor, east of Jingtai, south of Tianzhu, northwest and Wuwei hustle, northeast and Inner Mongolia Alxa Left Banner neighboring, for the ancient Silk Road key.
Provincial highway 308 line, dry Wu railroad crosses the east and west. National Highway 312 line is "Shanghai to Xinjiang Yining" of the national highway, in the county territory *** 46 kilometers long, north-south direction; Provincial Highway 308 line is called "sea (Ningxia Haiyuan) Gulang" highway, and the National Highway 312 line is connected to the Shuangta in the county territory *** 99.7 kilometers long. ** 99.7 kilometers long.
Gulang county has only 398,000 people, there are Han, Tibet, Hui, soil, Manchu, Dongxiang, Maonan, Mongolia, Yao and other nine ethnic groups. This small county is buried in the pain of a major earthquake and war in the distant past, but it has gradually been forgotten.
Gulang is on the road to development.
County facing relocation
Gulang's name comes from the Tibetan word for a place where yellow sheep roam. But I didn't see any yellow sheep in Gulang, but I did see a few deer sculptures in a roadside park.
The county town is full of 1980s-style bungalow buildings, the walls are painted with a layer of rough cement, with different colors of stone set out a few stacked together in a diamond pattern, the whole county is more modern place is the west near the highway near a newly built buildings, and elsewhere you can even see a large area of adobe structure of the house.
The county town under the Qilian Mountains was destroyed in 1927, and the earthquake that struck northwest of Gulang County had a magnitude of 11, and according to county records, "all the houses in the city, the decadence of the collapse of nothing," with a death toll of more than 4,000 people.
But this experience has been blurred. Approaching a group of old men playing chess and sunbathing, I asked one of them, the oldest with a long white beard, about the 1927 quake, and he looked confused, while the people around him were even more confused.
Of course, if those who lived through it were alive, the youngest would be 85. I followed the path to the Gulang Cultural Center, which they said has a museum documenting the quake, but unfortunately it is closed on weekends.
But the quake had such an impact that it still affects Gulang's development today.
August 31, 2011, "Gansu Province, urban and rural development pilot area of Wuwei urban and rural integration development core area master plan" was introduced, the plan proposes to build "an axis of two cities and three clusters," the spatial development structure.
"An axis" refers to the core area development center axis of the Jinda fast track, its function is to form the spine of the spatial organization of the core area and the main artery. 2010 started the construction of this avenue with a total investment of 4.559 billion yuan, a total length of 158.64 kilometers through the Liangzhou District, Gulang County, 22 townships, connecting the Wuwei Golden Sun New Energy Hi-Tech Zone, Gulang County Tumen Industrial Park and other 8 industrial parks. The Gulang Industrial Zone, which is characterized by fine chemicals, building materials, food processing, biopharmaceuticals and other industries, is located along this axis.
The "Twin Cities" include Liangzhou and Dajing Town to the east of Gulang County. "Liangzhou City" and "Dajing City" are connected by the Jinda Expressway, one west and one east, one main and one secondary. The "plan" clearly put forward, will be Dajing City in accordance with the future positioning of the construction of the county, assume the Gulang County central city functions, to guide the county economic and social construction of the center of gravity to the north, the development of the city of Wuwei connected to the "Lanbai Economic Circle" of the southeastern gateway and an important node of towns and cities, and gradually take on the urban and rural integration and development of the core area of the vice-central town of the function.
With the economic center to Dajing offset, Gulang County faces the fate of relocation.
Despite the arrival of opening up, people's lives remain the same as before. Walking on the streets of the county town, a shoe store is playing "The Most Dazzling National Wind", while a grocery store next to it is playing "Love Sale" like a competition, and a cell phone carrier store a little farther away with a more upscale storefront décor has elegant foreign songs coming from it, and stepping on the muddy water mixed with melting snow and dirt, it's so close to being so elegant from being so commonplace.
Silent past
On the high ground next to Longquan Park, a carved black monument in the shape of a long gun bayonet stands, in front of the round tomb full of weeds with cement hooped up, and the black tombstone is engraved with the "Ninth Tomb of the Martyrs of the West Road Army of the Chinese Workers, Peasants and Red Army". Here are buried more than 2,200 soldiers of the Red Army West Road Ninth Army, in 1936 they followed the West Road Army *** more than 21,800 people from Gulang into the Hexi Corridor.
In Gulang, the West Road Army and the chasing army of Ma Bufang fought three battles, the West Road Ninth Army suffered heavy losses, there is a saying that "three battles in Gulang, the Ninth Army folded in half". Hexi Corridor is the "green horse" warlord Ma Bufang's sphere of influence in Xining, the West Road Army into this area, breaking into the territory of the green horse, was fiercely pursued and intercepted. In the Gulang Gorge, the West Road Army and the green horse to start the first frontal battle, but was lured into the depths of the Ninth Army suffered heavy losses, and the Gulang setback is only a prelude to the west of the West Road Army in the west of the river was wiped out.
This year's 62-year-old master Zhong is the park's cleaner and graveyard sweeper, who said that the nine army martyrs' graves next to the park, then known as the "mass grave", buried nine army generals, people and some soldiers of the Majestic Army. He carefully cleaned the leaves on the steps and told me that people from the Lanzhou Military Region would come to pay tribute to the tomb of the martyrs tomorrow.
Unexpectedly, he actually knew about the Gulang earthquake, the elders had told him, "the earthquake in the 16th year of the Republic of China," and he corrected me, "the 1927 earthquake," he said. At that time, all the kilns under the Gulang Gorge were collapsed, killing and injuring many people. Nine years later, the Red Army fought a bloody battle with the Majia Army here, and more than 2,400 people died here.
Master Zhong said there are usually very few people here, his son and daughter-in-law go out to work, and he has nothing to do but bring his grandchildren to play. When he was sweeping the floor, his 9-year-old granddaughter and 7-year-old grandson were playing next to him. When I asked where the shy little boy went to school, he just looked down and fiddled with the leaves in his hand.
"Do you go to college in Lanzhou when you grow up?" I asked, and he remained too shy to answer.
"In the future, go to Beijing to go to university." Grandpa answered for him. And he went on to clean the leaves, a rustling sound resounding in this empty, dead place.
On May 23, 1927, an 8-magnitude earthquake struck Gulang. The earthquake affected Gansu, Qinghai and Shaanxi. Wuwei, Ta'erzhuang, Zhangyibao, Hesongyi, Huangyangchuan and other places were extremely seriously damaged. Gulang County was severely damaged. According to Gulang County Records: "is the day will dawn, the initial shock once, its potential is still small,...... just over a moment, the second and then come, thunderbolt, the valley should be the mountain sound, dozens of feet of yellow dust, dazzling in the air, instantly heaven and earth color, sun and moonlight, the city of Lushu into nothing, the mountains and rivers changed, the village and the alley can not be discerned, the number of the sound of pain, the sound, the number of the city, the city and the county. Hearing miles away, called the county of three hundred households, the pressure of death of men and women seven or eight hundred mouth, the whole city houses, decadent fall no trace. ...... statistics of urban and rural (death) population of more than four thousand, cattle, sheep and horses (death) number of horses up to thirty thousand." The Shuangta area has many cracks in the fields and a large ditch about 5 meters wide and 200 meters long sunk into the flat ground. The Great Buddha Temple at the mouth of the Water Gap collapsed, and all the stone monuments in the temple twisted and fell to the northwest. Shengjing Times" recorded Wuwei County and the surrounding areas suffered from the earthquake damage to the tragic situation: "the earth suddenly quake, a valley cracked, the sun dark, the city huts collapsed six or seven out of ten, the rich and prosperous areas, into ruins, thousands of years of monuments, while the holocaust, crying shook the sky and the earth, all the wells for the smokeless, the historical quake has not been as tragic as this violent one. After a detailed investigation of only Wuwei County, counting the pressure killed population of 35,495 (original population of more than 80,000), cattle, horses, sheep and animals 220,000 two thousand and ninety-five head, collapsed villages nineteen thousand three hundred and ninety-nine, premises forty-eight thousand four hundred and forty-two, cracked fields about twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-six hundred and sixty-nine acres of more than the rest of miscellaneous pieces, injury and loss can not be counted." At that time most of the world's seismic stations, such as Shanghai Xujiahui station, Leningrad station, Zurich station, Strasbourg station and a dozen other stations clearly recorded the earthquake.