[Epoch Times July 23, 2021](The Epoch Times reporter Long Tengyun reported) On the afternoon of July 20, 2021, in Zhengzhou City, where heavy rains continued for several days, the stagnant water on the busy streets suddenly rose and the turbid waves churned. The turbid turbulence swept through the streets, squares and even residential communities, throwing pedestrians and vehicles off guard and dragging them into the torrent.
At the same time, the passengers and drivers in the underground tunnels of Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 and Jingguang Road are not yet known to have fallen into a disaster, and are about to face fear and despair after flooding into the tunnel.
This is the July flood in Zhengzhou that shocked the world. The official interpretation of the Chinese Communist Party is that this is a natural disaster that occurs once in a thousand years.
Up to now, CCP officials claimed that 33 people were killed in the Zhengzhou flood. But this data is generally questioned by the outside world.
Who is to blame for the casualties of the Zhengzhou floods: heavy rains or the government
The Chinese Communist Party’s official media praised the party and government and the soldiers (the People’s Liberation Army) for their response and rescue during the Zhengzhou flood, but they attributed the casualties to natural disasters.
However, among the private sector, and even some land media have questioned the Zhengzhou authorities’ failure to give early warning and action, especially the suspension of the subway.
In fact, the CCP’s own regulations have already given the answer.
the fact is:The response of the authorities during the “one-in-a-millennium” rainstorm did not conform to the regulations and requirements formulated by the CCP itself.
According to local media in Henan Province, on July 19, Zhengzhou experienced serious water accumulation on some roads.
According to the official Weibo of Zhengzhou Meteorological Observatory, Zhengzhou Meteorological Observatory issued a red rainstorm warning signal at 21:59 on July 19, 2021, and has issued red rainstorm warnings many times thereafter.
However, it was not until July 20, a few days after continuous heavy rains, that the Zhengzhou City “City Defense Finger” (Urban Flood Control Headquarters) decided to upgrade the flood control level II emergency response to level I from 17:00 on the 20th.
Regulations formulated by the Chinese Communist Party:
According to the “Guidelines for Meteorological Disaster Warning Signals and Prevention” attached to the “Measures for the Issuance and Dissemination of Meteorological Disaster Warning Signals” (official link) issued by the Chinese Communist Party, after the issuance of the rainstorm red warning signal, it should:
1) The government and relevant departments shall do a good job in anti-storm emergency and rescue work according to their duties;
2) Stop gatherings, classes, and business (except for special industries);
3) Do a good job in the prevention and rescue of disasters such as mountain torrents, landslides, and mudslides.
According to the “Emergency Plan for Urban Flood Control in Zhengzhou” announced by the Zhengzhou Municipal Government in 2019 (Official Link of the Communist Party of China):
1) When receiving an early warning and weather forecast of extremely heavy rain, the first-level warning should be activated and released to the public through telephone, mobile phone text messages, WeChat, radio, etc.;
2) Corresponding to the early warning level, the authorities should initiate emergency response actions at different levels; when level I response is initiated, “all flood control member units have implemented relevant work”, including the municipal subway group and other units “strengthen the construction site and surrounding areas “Monitoring of accidents” and “relevant departments and units should be decisively commanded to take effective measures to organize emergency rescue and elimination of dangers such as collapse and water leakage.”
3) In addition, the “Emergency Plan” also requires: the Municipal Urban Construction Bureau, the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Municipal Urban Management Bureau, and the District Offices of Urban Defense to comprehensively monitor the water accumulation areas, underpass tunnels, urban rivers, and dangerous locations and sections.
the fact is:
On July 20, there was no government warning to “stop gatherings, classes, and business“. Zhengzhou citizens traveled, worked and lived as usual, without knowing that the disaster was at hand.
At 4 pm on the 20th, hundreds of cars were blocked in the 1,835-meter-long Jingguang Road Tunnel in Zhengzhou until they were hit by a flood. I don’t know how many people survived and who died.
Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 was not forced to suspend operations until 6 pm. At that time, hundreds of passengers were trapped in the subway, and the Zhengzhou I-level emergency response has been activated for more than an hour, and the rainstorm red warning has been issued for more than five hours.
Is the Zhengzhou flood disaster caused by the reservoir?
Faced with the tragedy caused by the Zhengzhou flood disaster, many netizens at home and abroad questioned that it might be related to the sudden flood discharge or the bursting of the embankment of the Changzhuang Reservoir in Zhengzhou that day.
According to the report issued by Zhengzhou Disaster Prevention Service Desk at 1 am on the 21st, the Changzhuang Reservoir began to discharge the flood downstream at 10:30 am on July 20. However, the authorities did not give advance warning, but only announced it 14 hours after the flood was released.
Some citizens of Zhengzhou suspected that the flood disaster was a man-made disaster caused by the government’s unwarranted flood discharge in connection with the abnormal phenomenon of the sudden surge of stagnant water after 5 pm on the 20th day.
On July 21, the Henan Water Conservancy Department of the Communist Party of China “refuted the rumors” that the Changzhuang Reservoir had not broken its dyke and that it was a normal flood discharge, which had basically no impact on Zhengzhou’s urban area.
The fact is: Although the outside world cannot obtain the details of the Changzhuang Reservoir’s flood discharge and Zhengzhou’s municipal drainage from the CCP, the public information of the Zhengzhou Municipal Government shows that there is a connection between the reservoirs in the Zhengzhou area and the drainage of the city’s main urban area.
The “Emergency Plan for Urban Flood Control in Zhengzhou” shows that there are 124 large and small rivers in Zhengzhou. “Among them, the main drainage channels in the main urban area are Suoxu River, Jialu River, Wei River, Dongfeng Canal, Jinshui River, Xiong’er River, Qili River, and Chao He waits”.
“The drainage facilities follow the rainwater and sewage diversion system, and the rainwater system is discharged into the nearby river according to the principle of draining from the Jinshui River, Xiong’er River, Dongfeng Canal, Qili River and other flood discharge channels to the outside of the Jialu River.”
The Henan Water Conservancy Department admitted in the public “rumoring” that the Changzhuang Reservoir has limited storage capacity, and it needs to discharge part of the water flow to undertake more torrential rains and floods; and the flood discharge of the reservoir is also discharged through the Jialu River.
The above official information outlines a fact: on July 20, when the heavy rain in Zhengzhou City was flooding into the municipal drainage system and finally passed the Jialu River outflow, the Chinese Communist Party opened the floodgate without warning and put the water stock into the water. The river course also flows into the outflow of the Jialu River.
It is also worth mentioning that the Changzhuang Reservoir is located on the west ring road of Zhengzhou City, and is less than 10 kilometers away from the Zhengzhou Jingguang Road Tunnel, which was submerged in the flood.
Zhengzhou torrential rain “once in a thousand years”?
According to the official Weibo news of Zhengzhou Meteorology, the extreme heavy rain broke the historical record of 60 years since the establishment of the Zhengzhou station in 1951; from 20:00 on July 17 to 20:20 on July 20, the rainfall reached 617.1 millimeters in these three days. The average annual rainfall in Zhengzhou is 640.8 mm, which is equivalent to the amount of the previous year in these three days.
On July 21, the Water Resources Department of Henan Province issued a message that the rainfall in Henan was “once in 5,000 years.”
The fact is: Zhengzhou’s torrential rain is true, but the “one in a thousand years” is an exaggeration.
46 years ago, from August 4 to 8, 1975, heavy rainfall occurred in Zhumadian, Henan Province, 200 kilometers away from Zhengzhou, with rainfall exceeding 1,000 mm. In the central area of the heavy rain, the rainfall reached 1005.4 mm in a day on August 7. The volume broke the Chinese record at the time.
Due to the CCP’s unreasonable planning, the Great Leap Forward built too many reservoirs, and the reservoirs were cut corners and poor quality, which eventually led to the collapse of the reservoir. According to Wikipedia data, the death toll from the dam breach in Henan during the “75·8” was 85,600 to more than 200,000, and the number of people affected by the disaster exceeded 10 million.
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