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Chapter 35 Snow Disaster (2)

(Dear book friends, due to the need of the story, the 2008 snow disaster was postponed for a few days. Here, I express my deep apology to the victims and their families who unfortunately died in the snow disaster. I express my highest respect to the people on all sides who silently contributed in the rescue and disaster relief. At the same time, I despise those unscrupulous rats who took the opportunity to make money from the national crisis and dared to sell for 50 yuan with a bucket of instant noodles and a cup of boiling water. Great love is boundless, and man will conquer nature!)

Su Ye, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held an emergency enlarged meeting. In addition to the members and alternate members of the Politburo in Beijing, the main responsible persons of the National Meteorological Administration, the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Electricity Supervision Commission, the State Food Administration, and the National Energy Administration.

The meeting reported some of the data that have been counted in this snow disaster. According to statistics, the scope of this snow disaster includes: Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Among them, the rain and snow in Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and other places lasted more than once in a hundred years, while Guizhou, Jiangsu, Shandong and other places reached once in a 50-year period. Among them, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Anhui and other six provinces were the most severely affected. The railway was in the

The airport was cut off, the airport was closed, and the long-distance train ticket sales in Shanghai Railway Station stopped, and only refunds were processed. Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and Pudong International Airport were closed, and the Spring Festival travel rush was blocked. Airports in many cities in the Yangtze River Basin were forced to close due to snow, and a large number of flights were cancelled. Some sections of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, Hangzhou-Hui Expressway, Hechaowu Expressway, Hetonghuang Expressway, Hening Expressway, He'an Expressway, Hexu Expressway, Xuanguang Expressway, Hejie Expressway, Daguang Expressway, Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway and other expressways were closed due to snow and road icy. Because it was the peak period of the Spring Festival travel rush, there were more than 10 million stranded passengers in various places.

The Party Central Committee and the State Council have made emergency arrangements for this. The garrisons of provinces, cities and regions were dispatched quickly to assist local governments in anti-snow and disaster reduction, and to urgently deal with emergencies in various places. All party and government functional departments must properly resettle the affected people, stabilize social order, ensure the preparation, mobilization and distribution of disaster-related items, and must stabilize market prices and severely crack down on behaviors that disrupt market order. All transportation departments must urgently mobilize personnel to take measures to restore traffic order as soon as possible; the power system, heating and water supply systems must ensure the normal supply of coal, electricity and water in the disaster area. Areas with power and water outages must resume normal supply within 24 hours...

This may be the shortest time since the first Politburo meeting. In less than an hour, the huge state machinery was running at high speed. Premier Hua Wande of the State Council and Vice Chairman of the Military Commission Lin Yiping personally took a helicopter to the front line of anti-snow and disaster relief. All administrative functional departments also took action one after another and took part in anti-snow and disaster relief operations.

All the provinces and regions that were not affected by the disaster also extended a hand of help, and materials and personnel continued to flow into the disaster areas through various channels. Countless charitable funds, non-governmental organizations, enterprises, individuals and overseas Chinese also joined the rescue activities one after another.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xinyang City, Henan Province.

This is the destination of Lin Aiju's donation of snow-resistant and disaster relief supplies. Huayi Charity Fund donated a large number of cold-resistant supplies, food, drinking water and medicines this time, and purchased 70 tons of sea salt from Tanggu Salt Field for snow melting on the road.

Lin Aiju mobilized more than 20 trucks to transport the supplies. Although the road was all national highways, it was walking very slowly. Most sections of the road were still covered with snow. Even if the anti-slip chains were hung on the wheels, it still kept slipping. On a steep slope between Zhengzhou and Xuchang, it took more than 20 cars to pass through for more than four hours.

Li Bin and Xiaoyu also walked with Lin Aiju. He suggested that whenever Lin Aiju encounters such a road condition, the volunteers who accompanied the foundation would sprinkle sea salt on the snow on the steep slopes. These materials may not have to be used at the predetermined destination, but can be used wherever they are needed.

Lin Aiju laughed and scolded Li Bin: "Are you a bad guy saying I am formalistic?" He arranged for the foundation employees to sprinkle sea salt enough to melt the snow on this steep slope.

When Li Bin learned that Lin Aiju was going to the disaster area to donate supplies, he waited until the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway was opened on the first day of the New Year, and rushed from Beijing to TJ City. He wanted to accompany Lin Aiju, so naturally there was the light rain that followed him wherever he went.

Li Bin drove his own BMW X3. When driving in this kind of snow, the performance of the SUV is much better than that of other cars.

When we arrived in Xinyang, it was the afternoon of the third day of the Lunar New Year.

The head of the temporary snow-resistance and disaster relief office in Xinyang City warmly welcomed them and the party. The secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor rushed to the front line of snow-resistance. The reception was executive vice mayor Sun Jianhe. Sun Jianhe held a brief welcome ceremony and enthusiastically praised the humanitarian spirit of Huayi Charity Fund. After handing over the donated materials to the Xinyang City snow-resistance office, Sun Jianhe invited the foundation staff to have dinner together, but Lin Aiju politely declined.

After rushing to the road for two days without sleep, the drivers and the foundation employees were exhausted. Now all they need is a good sleep. Under the arrangement of Sun Jianhe, the group moved into Xinyang Hotel. Basically, they fell asleep as soon as they entered the house. Only Lin Aiju, Xiaoyu and Li Bin were still full of energy. While on the road, Li Bin and Lin Aiju's driver Xiao Wang drove in turn, but it did not affect much sleep.

Lin Aiju pulled Li Bin and Xiaoyu to her room to talk. Xiaoyu suggested going out for a walk. It was the first time I came to this city. It would be a pity if I didn’t go out and wander around.

Lin Aiju looked at her watch and at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, she hung up the phone to her secretary and told him to wait for people to wake up and arrange supper for them, and to go out for a walk.

In fact, the urban area of ​​Xinyang City is not big, and it is similar to the urban area of ​​Langfang, with only two urban areas: Qinghe and Pingqiao. However, there are many scenic spots. The most famous ones are Jigong Mountain Scenic Area and Nanwan Lake Scenic Area. Lingshan Temple, which Zhu Yuanzhang personally authorized as the "Imperial Temple" is also in Xinyang. Of course, what makes Xinyang people most proud is the famous "Xinyang Maojian".

Although Xinyang is not listed on the transportation hub, it can be said that the traffic is about to rush. The two national highways 107 and 312 pass by the city, one north and one south, and at the intersection of Yuekou outside the city, the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway and the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway also cross near the Xinyang urban area. The three railway trunk lines of Beijing-Guangzhou, Beijing-Kowloon and Ningxi pass through Xinyang. The snow disaster brought great pressure to Xinyang traffic. Only two national highways were barely opened to traffic. The city organized a large number of people and public security officers to open to the rescue front line, and we must clear the traffic trunk lines as soon as possible to rescue the affected people.

The snow on the urban roads has been cleaned up by a unit. There is no problem with driving and there are not many pedestrians on the road. In such a cold weather, no important thing will be done. No one will come out to get frozen.

Lin Bin drove the two of them around the city without any hesitation. This was not the time to travel, and in this case, they did not feel that way to go to those scenic spots. They mainly looked at the appearance of Xinyang's urban area and learned about the customs and customs.

They drove around the most prosperous Beijing Street in Xinyang City. There were not many businesses on the street, only a few shopping malls, supermarkets started to open, and there were still quite a lot of people. I parked in and looked in and found that people were basically buying fresh food. Li Bin held Lin Aiju and Xiaoyu held Li Bin, which was quite interesting. Ordinary daughter-in-law or prospective daughter-in-law did not make any wishes to her mother-in-law. She rushed to curry favor with her mother-in-law, and was acting coquettish by her mother-in-law. Xiao Yu was standing alone, and there seemed to be no one else in her eyes except Li Bin.

Although Lin Aiju has never participated in the management of supermarkets, she sleeps with a husband from the supermarket industry every day. With the influence of her, she still has a much deeper understanding of supermarkets than ordinary people.

"Xiaojun, do you see?" Lin Aiju asked Li Bin at the empty vegetable shelves.

Li Bin nodded, looked at the customer lined up in a long row and said:

"Mom, it seems that the supply of meat and vegetables in Xinyang City is very tight. Look at the price tag, cabbage is 3 yuan per kilogram, potatoes are 2.8 yuan per kilogram, and even onions are 2.5 yuan per kilogram. Even this is how ordinary people still can't buy it. I think a batch of vegetables is going to come and rescue the emergency."

"Yeah." Lin Aiju pondered for a moment, took out the phone and dialed it to Shi Yifei.

"Yifei, TJ's vegetable prices are still stable, right?"

After receiving Shi Yifei's affirmative answer, Lin Aiju said:

"Yifei, please ask your supermarket purchasing staff to purchase 2 million yuan of vegetables for our Huayi Fund. For those that are easier to store and are easy to transport, I ask the executive staff of the headquarters to contact you directly."

After dialing a few phone calls in succession, Lin Aiju said to Li Bin:

"Let's go, let's go to the vegetable wholesale market in Xinyang to take a look."
Chapter completed!
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