The deeds of heroes fighting floods and disaster relief in 1998?

1. Li Xiangqun

Li Xiangqun (1978--1998) is a heroic warrior in the new era. A soldier from the 9th Company of the 361st Regiment of the 121st Division of the 41st Group Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army from Qiongshan City, Hainan Province. Joined the army in December 1996. A member of the Communist Party of China, he died heroically in the great flood fighting and rescue struggle in 1998.

Li Xiangqun, who was born in 1978, was a soldier of the Ninth Company of the Tashan Garrison Hero Regiment of the Guangzhou Military Region. Although his family has a fortune of millions, in order to pursue his lofty ideals in life, Li Xiangqun resolutely chose to join the army and grew from an ordinary young man into a qualified warrior, an outstanding soldier and a glorious member of the Communist Party of China.

In the 1998 flood fighting and rescue battle in the Yangtze River Basin, Li Xiangqun took the initiative to sign up to join the army's rescue commando team. He fought tenaciously despite being ill and fainted on the embankment four times. He was sent to the hospital for rescue after waking up. , and pulled out the infusion needle and went up to the embankment to fight, and finally died heroically due to overwork.

In order to express their deep remembrance of the martyrs, 30,000 people in the disaster area spontaneously came to attend the memorial service of the martyrs and erected monuments in the places where the martyrs fought against floods during their lifetimes. The Central Military Commission awarded Li Xiangqun the honorable title of "Heroic Soldier of the New Era".

2. Gao Jiancheng

A native of Xiangyin County, Hunan Province, was born into a peasant family in Nanhu Town, Xiangyin County in October 1965. He has loved learning since he was a child and has excellent academic performance. In September 1984, he graduated from the No. 4 Middle School in Xiangyin County and was selected to study at the Air Force Flight Academy. After graduation, he was assigned to an anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the Wuhan Air Force.

He has successively served as platoon leader, assistant engineer, company deputy instructor, instructor, etc., and was awarded the rank of captain. He is an outstanding grassroots cadre emerging from the military and political construction of the People's Army in the new era.

During his 14-year military career, he studied hard, worked hard, had an excellent style, and had noble moral character. He was awarded by the army three times and was named an outstanding party member and outstanding party branch secretary six times.

In the summer of 1998, the Yangtze River Basin suffered a rare flood disaster in history. On July 27, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the Air Force where he belonged was ordered to go to the Xianning area of ??Hubei Province to carry out the rescue and berm protection mission of the Yangtze River embankment.

Before departure, he wrote a letter to his old mother: "Mom, I will soon lead the troops to carry out flood fighting and rescue missions. Now I have a new house at home. After I successfully fight the flood and return to the army, I will take advantage of my vacation to pick you up and live with me, so that you can live with us and enjoy happiness in your later years."

He led the soldiers to the designated location on time and immediately went to Qiujiawan, Jiayu County to fight the flood. fighting. Despite having a high fever for several days, he took the lead and fought on the front line. On the evening of August 1, he led his troops to fight in Paizhou Bay to participate in the rescue battle.

During the rapid march, the Yangtze River embankment suddenly burst, and the company was suddenly hit by floods, with huge waves four to five meters high hitting our faces. At the critical moment, regardless of his personal safety, he remained calm and quickly organized the rescue of people and officers and soldiers in distress.

The life-saving equipment was not enough, so he immediately took off the life jacket and forced it on the new soldier Zhao Wenyuan. When he was forced to abandon the car and move, he insisted on being the last to leave.

During more than two hours of fighting against the flood, he continued to carry out on-site agitation, shouting: "With party members and cadres here, we will definitely be able to rush out!"

Regardless of his own safety, he rescued 8 people and soldiers. After 21:00 on the night of August 1, the floods became increasingly severe. He and the company commander decided to leave the two trees to a few weak soldiers and leave the risk of death to themselves.

He tried his best to push the new soldier Liu Nan, who was struggling in the water, to a big tree, but he was swept away by a huge wave and died heroically.

3. Zhang Guoxing

Zhang Guoxing was born in a family of ordinary workers in Jinzhou, Hebei Province in 1972. After graduating from junior high school in 1989, he actively responded to the country’s call and signed up to join the army. His father had been opposed because he felt sorry for his son and was afraid of suffering. For this reason, Zhang Guoxing went on a hunger strike to protest. After a week, his father had no choice but to grant his son's permission. Since then, Zhang Guoxing has embarked on the road of joining the army.

In 1998, another basin-wide flood occurred in the Yangtze River since 1954. 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country suffered flood disasters of varying degrees, with the affected area 3.18 100 million acres, the disaster area was 196 million acres, the affected population was 223 million, 3,004 people died, 6.85 million houses collapsed, and the direct economic losses reached 166.6 billion yuan.

When Jiujiang City breached, 222 commandos from Zhang Guoxing’s group army were urgently dispatched to Jiujiang. Zhang Guoxing, as the technical backbone of the use of "steel, wood, earth and rock combined dams", commanded 44 officers and soldiers of the entire company to use "steel "Technology for sealing breaches of wood-earth-rock combined dams" After 4 days and 4 nights of hard work, the breaches in Jiujiang, Jiangxi were successfully sealed.

Created a miracle in the history of China's flood fight. Premier Zhu of the State Council at the time stood at the closing point of the dam and highly praised this technical commando team for blocking the dam. "It played a key role at the critical moment!" "Salute to the officers and soldiers."

4. Peng Ronghua

In 1998, there were heavy rains one after another. The water in the Meibaoziwan River in Hengdian Township, Huangpi County surged. By evening, water began to enter some people's homes. Why did it rise so fast? Peng Ronghua, the leader of the Meibaoziwan team, went to the villager Peng Zhidong's shop to buy cigarettes when he discovered a dangerous situation: the bridge hole of a stone pier bridge in the village was blocked by aquatic plant branches carried by the flood!

Peng Ronghua said to Peng Zhidong: "If the bridge does not collapse, the villagers upstream will be flooded; if the bridge collapses, the villagers downstream will be flooded. Quick, help me clear it!"

Peng Ronghua and Peng Zhidong came under the bridge, and Peng Ronghua asked Peng Zhidong to help on the shore. He jumped into the rapids, leaned on the water blocking pier, and cleared away branches and debris with his hands. After more than an hour of hard work, the bridge hole was basically cleared and the water gradually receded.

Peng Zhidong’s wife saw that the two did not return for a long time, so she came to the bridge with a flashlight. She shouted to Peng Ronghua: "Huazi, it's dangerous!" Before she could finish her words, the stone pillar Peng Ronghua was holding suddenly broke. Peng Ronghua was swept away by the rapids along with the stone pier.

Peng Zhidong jumped into the river but failed to catch Peng Ronghua. All night, the men in the village were dragging nets to salvage the river after the water receded; the women were shouting on the shore, but they still could not find Peng Ronghua. It was not until the afternoon of the second day that Peng Ronghua's body, wearing a raincoat and wrapped in water plants, was found downstream 30 meters away from the stone bridge.

Peng Ronghua’s sacrifice plunged Meibaoziwan into great grief, and villagers working outside rushed back to the village to pay his respects.

5. Ji Qi

Ji Qi is a Chinese soldier and a flood-fighting hero. He signed up to join the army in December 1995. Later, for his outstanding performance in fighting floods, on the afternoon of February 21, 2000, the Nanjing Military Region awarded Ji Qi, a soldier from a repair company, the honorary title of "Hard-Bone Warrior in the New Era". His comrades said He is an "iron man fighting against floods".

Ji Qi was diagnosed with an advanced malignant brain tumor in October 1998, shortly after her triumphant return from the Yangtze River Flood Fighting Front. During the more than 40 days and nights he fought against the devastating flood, this tough warrior fainted on the embankment 10 times and was carried to a temporary rescue center five times.

Every time he wakes up from a coma, he always ignores dissuasion and continues to fight for rescue. During the flood fight, Ji Qi was the only soldier in the company who joined the party at the "waterline" and was awarded third-class merit.