China Anneng Plays a Role in Flood Rescue and Relief in Henan

China Anneng Construction Group Corporation Limited (China Anneng) has acted responsibly and bravely in rescue and relief efforts in Central China's Henan Province which was swamped by heavy rains and flooding.

The company's Changzhou rescue base lost no time in sending 11 rescue workers and allocating two high-power drainage vehicles to Zhengzhou, capital city of Henan, at 10:30 pm on July 20 soon after it received an emergency message about the disaster.

Almost at the same time, China Anneng's rescue bases in Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Wuhan in Hubei Province, Nanchang in Jiangxi Province and Tangshan in Hebei Province were also preparing urgently for the flood rescue mission.

Meanwhile, China Anneng allocated 420 professional rescue experts in engineering, hydrology and geology and professional equipment such as dynamic pontoon bridges and large-scale dredging and drainage machinery to support the rescue.

Rescuers from China Anneng's Lu'an project in East China's Anhui Province arrived in Zhengzhou at 2 am on July 21, the first of the company's rescue teams to start work in the city.

In the wee hours of July 21, the rescue team of China Anneng's subsidiary in Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, arrived at the Jingguang Tunnel in Zhengzhou and started operations.

In the afternoon on July 21, China Anneng's Tangshan rescue team arrived at the tunnel, driving a drainage vehicle. Three rescuers carried the 100-kilogram water pipes for water pumping, wading through the water. Local volunteers then helped with pipe installation.

Upon completion, the 30-meter long and 50-centimeter diameter pipe was able to draw about 3,000 cubic meters of water.

Victims of the flooding in Xinxiang were able to get to safety thanks to the dynamic pontoon bridge built by China Anneng's rescue team overnight. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

Impacted by the heavy rains, several villagesin the province's Xinxiang city, were swamped by serious flooding.

Rescuers of China Anneng's Nanchang subsidiary who were working on water pumping at the Jingguang Tunnel turned their attention to the flood-hit villages soon after they received an emergency message.

They hurriedly built two 40-meter long and 8-meter wide dynamic pontoon bridges during the night, with each capable of carrying 450 people at 10.8 kilometers per hour.

The emergency dynamic pontoon bridge is currently one of the most advanced water rescue devices in China. It can be built in a short time and can support passage of large-scale equipment and people.

China Anneng participated in rescues in Zhengzhou, Xinxiang, Hebi, Jiaozuo and Kaifeng. The company's rescuers siphoned off more than 6.9 million cubic meters of water with 23 drainage vehicles in 106 hours, helped transfer more than 1,400 people in Xinxiang with two pontoon bridges within five hours and plugged the breach of the river in Hebi.

Professional rescuers from China Anneng help people trapped in the flooding get out of danger. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

China Anneng's nine emergency rescue centers are distributed nationwide and are affiliated to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

In the last two years, the ministry allocated the centers a certain amount of advanced rescue equipment including drainage vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned detection boats, which played a crucial role in the recent flooding in Henan.

Guo Jianhe, Party Secretary of the CPC Committee of China Anneng Group First Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd, said that the dynamic pontoon bridge has improved efficiency of transferring people and plugging breaks in river levees.

He added that the multi-beam cloud data collection platform equipped on the unmanned boat was used to detect the underwater landform and the water depth, which supported the breach plugging.

(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)