XCMG Rescue Team Rushes to Yunnan Ludian Earthquake-stricken Area
August 09, 2014
A 6.5-magnitude hit Ludian County, Zhaotong City of Yunnan Province at 16:30, August 3. By 14:00 PM, August 4, 398 people had been reported dead, 1801 injured, and more than 10,000 houses collapsed. Simultaneously, China kicked off the Level-1 emergency response. After the earthquake, XCMG, the leading firm in the construction machinery industry, made a quick response and set up the XCMG rescue team, which urgently mobilized 19 large XCMG crane Trucks, loaders, and Excavators to support the disaster-stricken area.
By 15:00 of August 4, 7 loaders, 4 Excavators, and 2 cranes sent by XCMG had been devoting to urgent repair of highway and on-site earthquake relief work in the Ludian disaster-stricken area, under the instructions and arrangements of Zhaotong Traffic Bureau and Highway Bureau. Among them, 6 pieces of the equipment were directly used in the urgent repair of the highway from Zhaotong Highway Bureau to Ludian. News from the early morning of August 5 revealed that 4 XCMG loaders successfully repaired the landslide section in the highway towards the disaster-stricken area after overnight construction.
XCMG Excavators urgently repaired the landslide road in Longtoushan Township after entering the disaster-stricken area.
On the evening of August 3, 6 XCMG loaders were busying in road construction, among which four loaders were used in repair of some cave-in section and the other two loaders were deployed to support rescue work in Ludian County.
XCMG crane Trucks rushed to Yunnan Ludian earthquake-stricken area.
On August 4, one XCMG XE215C excavator arrived at the disaster-stricken area for the rescue work.
XCMG loader arrived at the disaster-stricken area for rescue.
On August 4, one XCMG LW500FN loader arrived at the disaster-stricken site for rescue.
The situation of a disaster is command, and the time equals life. On the evening of August 3, the news of the earthquake aroused the high attention of XCMG leadership. Chairman Wang Min required XCMG to mobilize the nearest rescue forces quickly to assist the earthquake relief work in all-out efforts, set up the earthquake relief headquarter in Zhaotong of XCMG under Vice President Sun Jianzhong, and establish a rescue team with local equipment and equipment of local clients and agents to assist the disaster-stricken area from Kunming as soon as possible.
Xu Nan, XCMG rescue frontline commander and deputy general manager of the Marketing Company of XCMG Earthmoving Machinery Business Division, said in an interview that rescue equipment sent by XCMG on the morning of August 4, including excavators, loaders, and cranes, had successfully entered Ludian earthquake-stricken area from Zhaotong, and they had been embarking on the construction work. He and other rescue team members like Bian Yong, director of XCMG Cranes Business Division’s Office in Yunnan had arrived at Ludian Longtoushan Township, the epicenter of Zhaotong. A 50t loader had been used in Longtoushan Township’s rescue work according to instructions of the Command Department. However, due to traffic inconvenience resulting from road and bridge landslide, 5 pieces of equipment were kept on standby 6 kilometers away from Longtoushan Township waiting to devote to the rescue work as soon as the traffic condition turned good.
Bian Yong said, though the road to the disaster-stricken area is muddy, construction machinery equipment kept on standby in the rain. The red banner “Cold Earthquake, Warm XCMG” seemed to be brighter. The road to the disaster-stricken area only allowed disaster relief Vehicles, while large-scale Vehicles and civilian Vehicles were not permitted to drive in. While seeing the XCMG rescue fleet, police officers in charge of the traffic order expressed their admiration for XCMG’s responsibility for society. And they relieved traffic congestion as quick as possible to enable XCMG equipment to pass through the road quickly.
