Memorial Hall of the May 6th fire in Daxinganling

The memorial hall of the May 6th fire in Daxing'anling is built to reflect on the memory of the great forest fire in Daxing'anling on May 6th, 1987. By means of pictures, words, physical objects and situational simulation, the memorial comprehensively shows the whole process of the fire, disaster, fire fighting, disaster relief, home reconstruction and ecological construction in the Great Xing'an Mountains on May 6, and reproduces the heroic scene of 50000 fire fighting troops fighting with the fire for 28 days, as well as the strong will of local people to rebuild their homes after the disaster.

Memorial Hall of the May 6th fire in Daxinganling

The May 6th fire Memorial Hall in Daxing'anling is built to reflect on the memory of the great forest fire in Daxing'anling on May 6th, 1987. The memorial hall is located in the northwest end of area 17, east of Zhonghua Road, Xilinji Town, Mohe County, Daxing'anling area, Heilongjiang Province. It was built and opened on October 22, 1988 and rebuilt in 2006. The new hall covers an area of 6000 square meters, with a construction area of 2420 square meters and an exhibition area of 1800 square meters.

Introduction to the library

There are five exhibition halls on the first floor, including "the source of fire", "city melting with fire", "tragic moment", "human purgatory" and "sad city"; on the second floor, there are seven exhibition halls, including "oil depot defense", "decisive battle in Xing'an Mountains", "disaster relief assistance", "rebuilding homes", "fire fighting escape", "modern fire fighting technology" and "forest fire prevention rules and regulations"; on the third floor, there is one exhibition hall The exhibition hall of "Changyou Mohe" and a ring screen cinema fully show the whole process of the May 6th fire from fire, disaster, fire fighting, disaster relief, home reconstruction and ecological construction.

Located in Xilinji Town, Mohe County, the great Xing'anling "5.6" fire memorial was built in October 1988 and receives tens of thousands of tourists every year. It was rebuilt and expanded in 2006. The rebuilt "5.6" fire Memorial Hall covers an area of 2900 square meters, and the exhibition hall covers an area of 2260 square meters. There are 12 exhibition halls such as "melting city by fire" and "decisive battle in Xing'an Mountain" and a ring screen cinema combining sound, light and other high-tech means. Using pictures, scenes, sculptures, sand tables, ring screen movies and other display means, and using electronic projection, phantom imaging, model interaction and other domestic and international advanced technologies, this paper vividly, systematically and accurately shows the whole process of the "5.6" fire from fire, disaster, fire fighting, disaster relief, home reconstruction and ecological construction. In 1999, it was named as the provincial youth education base by the Provincial Youth League Committee, the Cultural Administration Commission and the Department of civil affairs. In 2003, it was rated as "AA" tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration.

The "5.6" forest fire in 1987 destroyed 1.01 million hectares of forest resources, which brought great difficulties to the recovery of forest resources. The reopening of the memorial hall has played a positive warning role for people to deeply understand the real scene of the "5.6" fire, draw lessons from history, and never forget that "forest fire prevention is the top priority in the forest area", so as to strengthen the public's awareness of forest fire prevention, cherish the existing forest resources, and protect the ecological environment.

Details

On May 6, 1987, several forest farms belonging to Xilinji, Tuqiang, Amur and Tahe Forestry bureaus in Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang Province caught fire at the same time, causing the most serious forest fire since the founding of the people's Republic of China. According to preliminary statistics, the burned area is 1.01 million hectares, including nearly 70% of the forest area. 614000 square meters of houses were destroyed. It contains 400000 square meters of residential houses, 4 and a half log yards, 9 forest farms, 855000 cubic meters of timber, 2488 sets of burnt equipment and 6.5 million jin of grain. There are 67 bridges and culverts, 9.2 km of special railway lines, 483 km of communication lines and 284.2 km of power transmission and transformation lines. More than 50000 people were affected, 193 died and 226 injured. On May 6, 1987, a fire broke out in four forest areas of Daxing'anling, Heilongjiang Province. The fire continued to burn for 21 days. The burned forest area reached 560000 hectares, and more than 30000 people were put into fire fighting. The direct economic loss was about 500 million yuan.

Wang Yufeng, a farmer from Hebei Province, has been working in a forest farm for just 13 days. He started the brush cutter and ignited the gasoline on the ground. If he took off his coat and covered it, the fire might be put out. But Wang dragged the machine for seven or eight meters. By the time he called someone, the fire had become a crown fire that was difficult to control. When Wang Yufeng was detained, he even asked, "is my salary still open this month?"

Originally, this huge forest fire had been put out. On the morning of May 7, after all night's fighting, the open fire in Daxing'anling, Northeast China, had been put out, but the residual fire had not been completely destroyed. As a result, the fire took off at this time and ran away. In 25 days, it burned 1 million hectares of land and 850000 cubic meters of timber. This is the most serious forest fire in China since 1949.

Originally, the fire prevention in the forest area was under the local jurisdiction of Daxinganling, but Daxinganling forest area is an enterprise directly under the Ministry of forestry, the local administration belongs to Heilongjiang Province, and the territory belongs to Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In this way, we all have one servant and three masters, but we all refuse to put in money and do our best. As a result, a lot of money was spent. There were airplanes in the sky and armored vehicles on the ground. Artificial rainfall was carried out and the raw soil isolation zone was opened up. It has been estimated that this large-scale three-dimensional operation of a large regiment will cost nearly one million yuan a day just for the logistics supply of military supplies. Some people said: "when the fire tight purse, but the fire purse down."

It was very urgent to put out the fire, but some people were not. At 21:30 on May 8, a forest police airlift team arrived at Pangu forestry company surrounded by huosanbao. As soon as they got off the train, the instructor Zhang Guohua was called to the meeting. At 23:45, several county leaders were still arguing about "where to fight, how to fight, and what to do if we can't fight". Instructor Zhang left the meeting in anger and rushed to the fire. As a result, the fire was only tens of meters away from the ammunition depot.

Three or four days after the fire was put out, on June 6, the State Council removed Yang Zhong as Minister of forestry and Dong Zhiyong as vice minister of forestry.

When the forest fire broke out, Yang Zhong was in hospital. At the critical moment when the life and property of the country and the people were seriously threatened, he did not take a positive attitude and took the initiative to deploy the rescue and fire fighting work. However, before that, he was discharged from hospital several times to participate in foreign affairs activities. It was only after the criticism of the leading comrades of the State Council that he had to arrive at the front line of fire fighting on May 25, but he was negative. During this period, Comrade Yang Zhong did not make any self-criticism or self-examination, but only after repeated criticisms by leading comrades of the Central Committee and the State Council, did he make a declaration inspection.

As for the leadership responsibility of being an official, China is still relatively strict. On February 27, 1950, a methane explosion occurred in Xinyu coal mine, Henan Province, killing and injuring 200 people. Wu Zhipu, chairman of Henan provincial government, and Niu Peicong, vice chairman of Henan provincial government, were warned.

In the winter of this year, Fei Xiang, a Chinese American, returned to China to perform while dancing and singing. He was very popular with young girls: "a fire in winter..."

Address: 300 meters to the south of the east side of Zhonghua Road, Xilinji Town, Mohe County

Longitude: 122.5398103

Latitude: 52.96719

Tel: 0482-2737254

Tour time: 2 hours

Traffic information: take a taxi

Ticket information: free, with ID card ticket; if you need to explain the cost of 100 yuan

Opening hours: weekdays: 8:00-17:00, holidays: closed

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