This article is from WeChat public account: you write a story (raistlin2017) , author: Breslin

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The day before yesterday, there was a very popular article called “Without the fire in Australia, I didn’t know China was so powerful 33 years ago.”

The article said that on May 6, 1987, a major fire broke out in the Daxinganling Mountains in the Northeast, and was successfully extinguished by fire officers and soldiers 28 days later. Compared with the Australians’ weakness and irresponsibility in fighting the fire, it showed China’s power.

The whole article is sensational, saying how wise and decisive China was in making decisions when fighting the Great Xing’an Mountains fire, and how decisive the command was, it would absolutely not allow what happened in Australia to happen in China.

At the end of the article, the author criticized the entire Western world for failing to extinguish fires in Australia.

—— It is a good thing that the people are proud of their motherland.

Firefighters in China are really good. They will rush to the front and stand in front of the people. This is also a fact.

But there is nothing to brag about.

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Ordinary people can forget the past, but media people cannot.

The fire on May 6, 1987 finally resulted in the destruction of 17,000 square kilometers of forest, burning 630,000 square meters of houses, 2488 various types of machinery and equipment, and 6.5 million kilograms of grain. Burned 17 kilometers of special railway lines and 673 highway bridges and culverts. More than 10,000 households were affected by the disaster, and more than 50,000 were affected.

In this fire, 211 people were killed, 266 burned, and many of them burned for life.Disabled.

This is a disaster. It is by no means a victory.

More importantly, this disaster is not an irresistible natural disaster, nor is it caused by lightning strikes on trees, but a man-made disaster.

According to the 2007 “Looking” journal, the main point of fire of the fire in 1987 came from the Gulian Forest Farm. It was a field farmer (known as blind stream) who had just worked in the forest for 13 days. No one told him. Regarding the knowledge of forest fire prevention, he started a brush cutter to ignite the gasoline on the ground and the brush cutter was on. At that time, if he took off his coat and covered it, the fire might be put out, but Wang Yufeng dragged the machine and ran for seven or eight. Mi, by the time he called someone, the fire was already big.

The other ignition points were caused by smoking in forest farms during the season most likely to catch fire.

There is nothing to be proud of due to the fire caused by human accidents.

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If the fire is caused simply because the farmers do not understand fire prevention knowledge, then that’s it. There are more magical places in the middle.

Soon after the Daxinganling fire, the cause of the fire was strange and the momentum of the fire was unheard of. China Youth Daily reporter Ye Yan, Lei Shoumai, Li Weizhong, and trainee reporter Jia Yong rushed to the fire site after the fire. Began investigating the cause of the fire.

The interview lasted more than 30 days, and they changed back to a set of classic chapters in the history of Chinese journalism. From June 24 to July 4, 1987, three full-page investigative reports, “Red Warning”, “Black Aria” and “Green Sorrow” were published in the prominent position of China Youth Daily.

Identified the Great Xing’an Mountains fire at the beginning of “Red Warning”:

“This is human disaster.”

“Five fire sources are caused by forest workers’ violations of systems and operating procedures.”

(Note: China Youth Daily is the official media, not “the foreign media with ulterior motives to discredit China”:)

In the redThe warning reads like this.

1,50 million afforestation fund, only 9% of the remaining funds are deducted for forest protection.

2, The road repair plan has been pushed back and forth, and all parties are unwilling to pay.

3, Mohe County originally had professional forest police. Not only did they have professional equipment, but they also received professional equipment. As a result, these forest police were “invited out” of the forest area because of conflicts with leaders in the county: < br>

After leaving the forest police, a thirty-person “quick fire extinguishing team” was set up in the county. However, these thirty people had no training and no professional equipment. They were at a loss when they encountered a fire of a small scale.

In a recent article by my circle of friends, “I did n’t know China was so powerful 33 years ago without the fire in Australia,” said:

“You must know that the Daxing’an Mountains in 1987 had inconvenient transportation, sparsely populated people, lack of funds, and extremely poor fire fighting equipment.”

Of course, this is because China was backward and its economy was underdeveloped, but it is hard to blame the various bureaucrats in the middle.

To what extent does this bureaucracy exaggerate? It is exaggerated that the siren sounded when the fire truck usually did not have a fire, and until the end, no one took the siren of the fire truck seriously:

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In addition to these, there are more exaggerated.

For example, it is clear that a forest fire has been caused by the use of a brush cutter, so the Forest Management Bureau issued a notice prohibiting the use of brush cutters in the Daxinganling Mountains. However, when the notice arrived on April 28, 1987,When he was in the hands of a deputy head of the command section, he was lazy, and he only notified five of the eight forestry bureaus.

The tragedy happened in three innings he didn’t notify.

For example, on May 6th, the mountain was clearly smoking and on fire, but the leaders were still meeting. Even after there were many fires, the meeting of the leaders continued and was called by the China Youth Daily Casual meeting. ”

It ’s important to know that the fire was not large on May 6th. If we could take early measures to fight it out, our losses would have been not so great. Even if it was too late, in fact, the fire was brought under control in the morning of May 7, but at this time the leaders did not do their best to check whether there was still a fire, but went back to rest.

So on the afternoon of May 7, the local area suddenly had a strong wind, which caused a big fire in the forest, which caught local officials off guard, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger-even at this time, a leader was still there. Concealed the fire and declined the reinforcements sent above:

Thus, the two forestry bureaus of Tuqiang and Amur were buried in flames, and the fire was out of control. On May 9, 14,000 officers and men entered the Greater Xing’an Mountains and began the tragic fire-fighting operation of “filling the fire with human lives” as described in the article “Chinese Niubi 33 years ago”.

So at the beginning of this interview, it was stated that this is a real disaster.

At the end of the article, there is such a paragraph:

So after the fire, the first and second leaders of the forestry department were removed, and many officials were also punished.

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Go to Zhiwang to search. In the past 30 years, most articles about the 1987 Daxinganling fire were distressed, reflecting on how much China did wrong, what did not do well, and what could be improved.

Until 2007, when a fire broke out in the Greater Xing’an Mountains, the human accident was taken out as an example, and the local forest management bureau was required to reflect:

You can say that China has developed in the past three decades, and there will never be the same terrible management loopholes that year.

You can say that China has been strong for thirty years, and now it has its own experience in fighting forest fires.

But I didn’t expect it. By 2020, because of the worse Australian fire, the catastrophe of that year was actually dug up by the media after the 90s and wrote thousands of words, saying that it was “China Great performance. ”

A fire caused by a human accident killed more than 200 people and left tens of thousands of people homeless. Is it really so proud?

It’s magic.

What’s even more magical is that such an article was actually reprinted by the official media.

If this is the case, the crazy post-90s author who wrote “Without the fire in Australia, I do n’t know China is so powerful 33 years ago” may not know it, and netizens who have been moved by this article may not know it. .

They may just want to express the strength of China, but they are only expressing their dissatisfaction with Australia’s poor fire fighting.

After all, 33 years have passed. Now most young people surfing the Internet will not read all the reports at that time, so the staff of that number can use a very proud tone to say in the circle of friends:

Our article has received tens of thousands of retweets, more than 100,000 likes and tens of millions of reads.

This doesn’t blame them.

But everything, the official media should not be unaware, and the official media should not repost this article.

If Australia showed 100 steps in the fire this time, China ’s 33 yearsThe previous tragedy was at most fifty steps.

Five steps to laugh and one hundred steps is not a good word, and comparing with Australia will not make us better.

The official media represents the attitude of the state. The state should not use the disasters of other regions to highlight its strength.

The local government of Mohe said “disaster is the common enemy of mankind.”

33 years ago, China Youth Daily also wrote:

Let’s revisit the two sentences of this report.

Because disasters know no borders.