CCTV News:More than 20 years have passed, and the spirit of fighting floods that has been integrated into the blood of the nation has lasted forever. With the substantial increase of national investment in flood control, flood control projects with emphasis on dike construction have been carried out along rivers in various places, and the main dikes of the Yangtze River have been comprehensively heightened and reinforced, and the dikes of major tributaries, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake areas have also been heightened and thickened one after another, and the flood control capacity has been enhanced year by year.
Wanli Yangtze River is in Jingjiang River. In 1998, eight flood peaks surged, and the Jingjiang levee became the main battlefield of the Yangtze River flood control. The water level in Shashi section of the Yangtze River exceeded the flood diversion level. In order to defend Wuhan, the Jingjiang flood diversion area has entered a standby state, and 330,000 people in the flood diversion area have been urgently transferred. Under the great test of not dividing the flood, hundreds of thousands of flood-fighting troops fought against the wind and rain and the flood on the Jingjiang levee. Combined with the development trend of water regime judged by water conservancy experts, after repeated weighing, the central government resolutely decided: Jingjiang River does not divert floods! Faced with the surging flood peak, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians clung to the Jingjiang levee. At noon on August 17, 1998, the water level in Jingjiang finally began to decline. In the face of the iron will of the broad masses of soldiers and civilians, the great flood was finally defeated.
After the flood, the state comprehensively improved the defense capability of the Yangtze River flood control system. Jingzhou Gaotankou Pumping Station mainly undertakes the drainage task of nearly 5,000 square kilometers in Honghu, Jianli, Qianjiang, Jiangling and Shashi in the four-lake basin of Jianghan Plain, and is one of the backbone pumping stations for flood control and drainage in the four-lake basin. Liao Zuocheng, 42, is the deputy director of the Pump Management Office of Gaotankou Water Conservancy Project Management Office. Twenty-three years ago, Liao Zuocheng, who just came to work in Gaotankou Pumping Station, was hit by a catastrophic flood. Liao Zuocheng recalled that during the flood season in 1998, he and his father Liao Qianxiong stayed in the pumping station for nearly a hundred days. Seeing with one’s own eyes the indomitable spirit of his fathers when they faced the flood peaks and dangers again and again, also made him understand the importance of this job.
With the state’s attention and investment in water conservancy, the equipment of Gaotankou Pumping Station is constantly updated, the operation level of the pump house is obviously improved, and the drainage capacity is greatly strengthened. The flood control capacity of water conservancy facilities is getting stronger and stronger, but what remains unchanged is the spirit of fighting floods, which has been passed down from generation to generation by water conservancy people like Liao Qianxiong and Liao Zuocheng.
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