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Disaster Relief Materials Allocation Center
Author: Date:2013/8/1 14:04:00 Read:1447
The first batch materials arrived in the dark night with cloudburst, including stretcher, styptic bandage, gauze, adhesive tape and pain easing injection, etc. With insufficient manpower for discharging goods, mid-level cadres and strong male employees from Hairong Pharmaceutical Company who had not relieved from terror, fear and hunger became the main force to discharge goods one truck after another. No one was claiming for tiredness. They set their teeth as they knew that they were seizing life from the hand of Azrael…
With it was getting bright with rain getting smaller gradually, the relief materials were acutely increasing. The factory of Hairong Pharmaceutical Company became the ocean overflowed with relief materials on the second day of the earthquake. "Citizens from Chengdu City who got known of the disaster situation by radio and TV drove to Dujiangyan to contribution their love in succession with roads from the factory to the highway exit filled with thickly dotted vehicles," Xu Lian was still filled with all sorts of feelings up to now whenever talking about the scene at that time. 
With the materials were converging, some rescue forces were also gathering here rapidly. The reservists in the neighborhood arrived firstly with the army soldiers, armed policeman, firefighters, public security officers, medical rescuers and government officials available in succession. Besides, a large batch of volunteers also arrived here. A few of them stayed, the majority was marching toward the severe disaster area such as Wenchuan and Yingxiu with provisions. Members of the Economic Safeguard Team of Hairong Pharmaceutical Company were initially keeping watch independently at the door. When the army soldiers arrived, they just assisted in keeping watch to maintain the factory in order. "About 10,000 people at most entered and got off the factory and over 1500 people were residing at tents within the factory" as said by the team leader Liu Yong.
Initially the porter’s lodge was empty out to stock materials, then a hall of 2000m2 on the first floor of the office building was empty out, and then the large plaza before the office building, a green belt of 4000m2 along the road and the sight lawn of 5000m2 in the center of the factory were all available for material deposit or rescuers residence. Two finished product warehouses, a drug material warehouse, a repository and a constant temperature warehouse, over 10,000m2 in total, were also used to deposit materials. "We stated to the control headquarter that we would strive to satisfy any requirement as long as it was demanded by the earthquake resistance and disaster relief" as said by Xue Li’an.
With the residence of a large number of persons and materials, the supply of such infrastructure as water and power became rather urgent. Meng Hua, 53 years old now, was the engineering technician of Hairong Pharmaceutical Company responsible for water and power maintenance. His family was at Dujiangyan. He left upon approval of the department leaders in the afternoon of the earthquake occurrence to seek family members. What was fortunate was that his mother over 80 years old, brothers and sisters and their family members were also subject to no injury in the earthquake except some loss of the house and furniture. As advised by his brother-in-law, they drove to take refuge to Chengdu. The farther to Dujiangyan, he was feeling more anxious. "I was quarreling with my brother-in-law at the feet of Qingcheng Mountain because he was discouraging me from coming back. I have affections with Hairong Pharmaceutical Company. I always believed that I could only lead a good life when the unit was in good status. What would be done in case I was demanded by the factory in such a serious earthquake? " Mr. Meng described the exact circumstance to the reporter.
Meng Hua returned to the factory in the afternoon of the second day. Water supply was resumed in partial urban areas of Dujiangyan on May 14. The first thing that Meng Hua had to do was to climb to the roof of the six-storey office building to block the water tower under leakage, repair the drinking water pipes so as to enable water available to workers in the disaster relief center and soldiers residing at the factory as well as the medical rescuers as soon as possible. "The aftershocks were happening one after another. My legs were trembling when climbing. I was greatly afraid and tended to get down as soon as the pipes were repaired." Nevertheless, I could not make it although I was feeling rather worried. The pipes were finally available upon rush maintenance for a whole day.
Meng Hua rushed to repair the power line on May 15. Blind lines were adopted in pharmaceutical enterprise factories and pipe line layer set between storey with all pipe lines were centralized therein for the sake of safety without the exception of the power lines. Meng Hua of 53 years old had to climb again and almost fell down from the pipe line interlayer for several times in the aftershock. When the power line in the pipe line layer could work, the remaining thing was to pull electrical wires to each tent. "I didn’t have time to eat and had to finish my work in a day that can be completed in two or three days because too many people outside were waiting for using electricity" as said by Meng Hua who repaired all the power lines in the office building, the living area and the dormitory and paved electrical wires for almost 2000m to the tent area in a day.
What was urgent to repair like the water and electricity was the toilet. With thousands of people were residing at the factory without water at the beginning or the portable toilet, all the toilets available in the factory were overflowed with dejecta. "Guys of our Economic Safeguard Team took turns to wash out the toilets with two members a group. The dejecta was almost to pour into our high boots at the beginning; and it took at least four to five hours to wash up one time" as said by the team leader Liu Yong, under whose leadership, guys washed up the toilets by carrying water from the river until a large batch of portable toilets were available.
In the morning of May 20, Li Keqiang, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Political Bureau, Vice Premier of the State Council and Deputy Director of the General Control Headquarter for Earthquake Resistance and Disaster Relief, arrived at the allocation center for disaster relief materials at Dujiangyan to carry out the survey and completely recognized the work of the center. All the on-site rescuers and employees of Hairong Pharmaceutical Company were greatly encouraged. The donated materials with cares of national people from various places of the country converged here and were then distributed to various disaster-affected points in such short 10 days, which closely connected the heart of national people with those of the disaster-affected areas. Who would not feel proud and glorious by devoting to their heart’s content in such as great battle of earthquake resistance and disaster relief?