In response to the scattered distribution and varying risk levels of geological hazard sites across the city, the Dunhuang Natural Resources Bureau has taken a proactive, comprehensive approach to routine hazard inspection and prevention efforts. The bureau implements ledger-based dynamic management for every geological hazard point in the city, strictly enforcing a "one site, one plan, one task force" working mechanism while establishing a closed-loop prevention model that includes pre-flood inspections, during-flood patrols, and post-flood verifications.
Regular coordination with meteorological, water affairs, and emergency management departments has been established to strengthen information sharing and joint response mechanisms. The bureau promptly disseminates early warning information, updates the hazard point database, and refines emergency response plans. Foundational work such as flood season duty management, hazard rectification, and public science education is being solidly carried out to comprehensively enhance the city's overall geological disaster prevention and emergency response capabilities.
While managing the city-wide flood prevention efforts, the Dunhuang Natural Resources Bureau has implemented targeted prevention measures for the Shanshui Gully and Xitugou debris flow hazard sites within Yanguan Town. Due to sustained upstream rainfall, floodwaters from both gullies carried large amounts of sediment downstream. At the forefront of the downstream alluvial fan, where terrain constraints weakened, the flows combined to form a multiplied peak flood surge, racing directly toward the downstream Ercun Village. The village's complex terrain and poor geological structural stability, combined with the sudden onset and high destructive power of debris flows, posed severe threats of flood peaks destroying village access roads, embankments, residences, and farmland. With residents' lives and property under serious threat, the flood prevention situation became extremely urgent.
In response, the bureau designated Ercun Village as a core control target, implementing round-the-clock monitoring and duty arrangements while strengthening the early warning response linkage mechanism. Efforts were also made to address village-level disaster prevention shortcomings and enhance Ercun Village's autonomous prevention capabilities, building a solid flood season safety barrier for the entire village and resolutely maintaining the bottom line of zero casualties.
Systematic daily flood prevention preparedness provided solid support for rapid emergency response to sudden flood conditions. On July 29, Xitugou in Yanguan Town experienced combined upstream and downstream rainfall, creating a sudden and critical flood situation in Ercun Village. The Dunhuang Natural Resources Bureau responded swiftly upon hearing the alert, immediately activating the emergency evacuation plan in conjunction with the Ercun Village committee. Categorized evacuation and resettlement work was carried out, organizing villagers with urban housing to return to the city for safety, while those without resettlement conditions were uniformly housed at the Yanguan Town Elderly Care Service Center. All threatened residents were fully evacuated before the flood peak arrived, achieving "zero residual presence" and efficiently completing the personnel transfer operation.
The flood arrived with ferocious intensity and concentrated water volume, resulting in flooded patrol roads within the village, debris accumulation in waterways, and blocked flood discharge channels. The risk of floodwaters inundating the village and damaging farmland was prominent. Facing the urgent disaster, the bureau made precise assessments and decisive responses, urgently dispatching large machinery to the scene to concentrate efforts on river channel dredging, road reinforcement, and slope protection operations. Waterways were quickly cleared and flood invasion paths were blocked. Through scientific and efficient emergency rescue, the major flood risk in Ercun Village was successfully resolved, effectively safeguarding villagers' homes, farmland, and property safety, and successfully completing this geological disaster defense mission.
Through routine flood prevention duties, refined prevention measures, and steadfast emergency response during sudden dangers, multiple initiatives have genuinely protected the lives and property of Ercun Village residents. Recently, representatives from the Ercun Village Party Branch presented the Dunhuang Natural Resources Bureau with a banner reading "Extending a helping hand during mountain flood emergencies, selfless dedication warms the community," sincerely expressing gratitude for the bureau's diligent flood season rescue efforts and committed guardianship of local safety. The village party branch secretary stated that routine monitoring and early warning, patrol duty, and forward-looking prevention measures firmly held the village's safety bottom line, allowing residents to live and work in peace.
The banner represents grassroots recognition of the bureau's dedication to duty and service to the people, serving as a vivid reflection of the bureau's commitment to its original mission and protection of people's livelihoods. Moving forward, the Dunhuang Natural Resources Bureau will continue to maintain a strong focus on flood season safety, routinely conducting city-wide hazard inspections, science education, and flood season duty work, addressing grassroots disaster prevention shortcomings, and continuously improving geological disaster comprehensive prevention and emergency response capabilities to safeguard residents' lives and property across the jurisdiction and stabilize the city's flood season safety situation.