No casualties in Xinjiang Pamir region from massive Tajikstan-China border earthquake, Earthquake proof new houses built after 2017 earthquake work

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From May to August 2017, just in 3 months, locals moved to their new homes

News from August, 2017

新疆塔县“5·11”地震灾后重建顺利 村民搬进新居度佳节
　　8月30日，塔什库尔干县举行塔什库尔干乡库孜滚村居民灾后重建住房入住仪式，庆祝塔什库尔干县“5·11”地震震中库孜滚村受灾群众告别救灾帐篷和临时安置点，乔迁新居。村民们还特意为夜以继日奋战在施工现场的建筑工人送上瓜果和塔吉克族传统美食，表达感恩之情。
　　塔什库尔干县委表示，6月6日召开的塔什库尔干县“5·11”地震灾后重建工作启动会议，提出5205套城乡居民住房、一线定居房、边民服务房重建和新建任务。截至8月底，灾后重建住房2609套主体已完工、793套达到入住标准。

After the "5.11" earthquake in Tashkurgan County, Xinjiang, the reconstruction went smoothly, and the villagers moved into their new homes.

On August 30, Taxkorgan County held a post-disaster rebuilding housing occupancy ceremony for residents of Kuzigun Village, Taxkorgan Township, to mark the "5.11" earthquake epicenter of the "5.11" earthquake in Kuzigun Village. The villagers also sent melons, fruits and traditional Tajik food to the construction workers who worked day and night at the construction site to express their gratitude.

The Taxkorgan County Party Committee said that the "5.11" earthquake reconstruction work kick-off meeting in Taxkorgan County held on June 6 , proposed the reconstruction and new construction tasks of 5,205 sets of urban and rural residential housing, first-line settlement housing, and frontier service housing. As of the end of August, 2,609 post-disaster reconstruction housing units have been completed, and 793 units have reached the occupancy standard.

 

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Locals stayed in tents for 3 month from May to August in 2017 waiting for their new homes to be built , fortunately it was during the summer time, but even in summer, it feels like winter in this remote high plateau Pamir region

 

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Happy wealthy life in new government earthquake resistant houses on the Pamir Plateau
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2023-02-24 21:03 Source: Taxkorgan County Financial Media Center

According to the official measurement of the China Seismic Network, at 08:37 on February 23, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 occurred near the border area of Tajikistan and Xinjiang, China (37.98 degrees north latitude, 73.29 degrees east longitude), with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. The nearest is about 82 kilometers.

When the earthquake occurred, Taxkorgan County felt a strong tremor, which made farmers and herdsmen in Kuzigun Village, Taxkorgan Township, who experienced the 5.5-magnitude earthquake in 2017, still felt lingering fear. Early in the morning, villager Mirena Shamadiq checked out her house and heating coil. After some inspections, she found that there was no damage to the house, and Mirena Shamadiq finally let go of her hanging heart.

Mirena Shamadiq told reporters that when the earthquake happened that year in 2017, fortunately her family escaped just in time, all the houses collapsed, cattle and sheep were killed and injured, but luckily everyone was fine.

Resettlement plans and rapid allocation of funds to aid construction were quickly followed, and rows of brand new earthquake-resistant houses were built. After moving into the new house, with the strong support of the county party committee and the county government, they developed the breeding industry. After several years of development, the family bought a new car, and the scale of breeding is also expanding, with an annual income of about 100,000 yuan.

"Now we live in a bright, clean, safe and comfortable earthquake-resistant house, and our life is very happy. We are grateful to the party and the country for bringing us such a good life!" Mirena Shamadiq said.

On the same day, villager Amidakhan Khaliddin had just woken up when her fiancé came to her. The earthquake in the morning made them very worried. Although the two families were not far apart, they still wanted to check the situation before they could rest assured.

In the early years, Amidakhan Khalidin had been working outside, and his father lived at home alone. In 2017, Amidakhan Khalidin decided to return to his hometown to accompany his father, and became a border guard in the village. With an income of more than 10,000 yuan, plus the savings from going out to work, life is relatively affluent.

Speaking of future plans, Amidakhan Khaliddin told reporters that her home is very close to the newly built Taxkorgan Khunjerab Airport. "I'm planning to get married this year. For a better life in the future, I also want to work as a tourist guide in my spare time, so that I can make my life more and more prosperous by myself, so as to live up to the kindness of the party and the government to us."

Original report in Chinese

http://m.zgkashi.com/c/2023-02-24/955826.shtml

 

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The last household was connected to the power grid in the remote Pamir region in 2019

News report from 2019
Delivering electricity to villages deep in the Kunlun Mountains
Xinhua 2019-09-18 14:49
It was reported on September 18 that just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, snow had fallen in the Karakoram Mountains located on the western border of China.
In a canyon among thousands of ravines, workers are busy building telephone poles. Some local Tajik farmers and herdsmen bought Electric appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators are just waiting for the electricity to come.
These Tajik farmers and herdsmen live in Die Village and Nushidun Village in Mayang Township, Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, about 5 hours' drive from the county seat.
The widest part of the canyon where the two villages are located is only 400 meters, and the 15-storey tall cliffs on both sides seem to isolate nearly 200 households and more than 600 villagers from modern civilization.
Abdukerim Rahman, mayor of Mayang Township, explained that for a long time, the harsh terrain led to slow infrastructure development, which has been the biggest obstacle for the two villages to get rid of poverty.

In recent years, the state had invested in the construction of earthquake-resistant housing for villagers , the paving of concrete roads for household access, and the construction of water pipes. However, the villagers rely on photovoltaic panels distributed by the government a few years ago. It can only meet the lighting needs of the villagers. The washing machines and TVs bought by some villagers are mostly decorations.
"When will the uninterrupted electricity come?" The villagers looked forward and waited. At the end of last year, the news that "telephone poles are coming" spread like wildfire in the village.

Villager Juma Bayi rushed to Kashgar City, which is more than 8 hours' drive away from the village, and spent 10,000 yuan on appliances such as microwave ovens, electric baking pans, and refrigerators, and cleaned them every day; 98-year-old Nadixia Maimaiziya also Waiting for electricity, he wants to see how this big box called a refrigerator freezes meat; the young man Pirek Qilak bought a washing machine, hoping to reduce the burden on his mother...

Sending electricity to Mayang village is not easy, builders from all corners of the country arrived this summer. Hou Congcong, a 30-year-old Henan driver, drove a large truck across the country. "It was the most difficult thing to move the poles for the village. It went uphill for 1,800 meters, followed by a downhill of 1,700 meters. The road curbs was next to the cliff, and my heart skipped a beat."

In the Karakoram Mountains, it snows and rains all the time, and the pass on the top of the mountain blows strong winds force scale of seven or eight all year round. Among the 86 kilometers of transmission lines leading to the two villages, the highest mountain is 4,700 meters above sea level. The workers can only finish half of the daily work task due to lack of oxygen.
"This project will not recover the cost for a hundred years, but seeing the expectant eyes of the villagers, I think the national investment and the construction team's efforts are worthwhile." said Chen Yang, manager of the State Grid Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County Power Supply Company.

The average household investment in the village's electrification project is about 380,000 yuan, and it is expected to be completed and delivered on September 30 next year.

Someone jokingly asked Juma Bayi, after the electricity is turned on, can the electricity bill of so many electrical appliances in his house be affordable? After the earthquake, Juma Bayi did the math, the free government earthquake resistant house did not cost a penny. The family has 24 yaks and 20 sheep. The annual pasture subsidy is 12,000 yuan, and the salary of the forest ranger is 10,000 yuan...

Abdukerim Rahmane told the villagers that after the village is lifted out of poverty by the end of this year as planned, the country's preferential policies will not change, and everyone's life will get better and better.

Original report in Chinese

http://inews.ifeng.com/yidian/slide/60699247/news.shtml?yidian_tag=gallery&ch=ref_zbs_ydzx_news

 

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The end of the world

 

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New apartment in Tashkurgan, with the backdrop of the Pamir mountains

 

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6.1-magnitude earthquake hit Xinjiang Aksu, rescue teams were sent to the hit areas, they found no collapsed houses, no causualties, only a couple of cracks on some walls, the new government earthquake proof houses stand strong and all the money and efforts paid off