Chapter 40 39. Dawuti Asimu - Rescue the homeland after the loss of relatives

Dawuti Asimu, male, Uighur, native of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, member of the Communist Party of China. Born in 1952, he is currently Secretary of the Party Branch of Tugemanbeixi Village, Qiongkuchak Township, Bachu County. He hides the deepest sorrow, he holds the wound of his heart tightly, and there are more villagers in his bleeding heart.With the simple feelings of a Communist Party member for the masses, he spreads warmth among the people; Unselfishly propping up the hope of rebuilding their homes for the villagers who have just experienced a nightmare. At 10:03 on February 24, 2003, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Bachu and Jiashi in Xinjiang, killing a total of 268 people, including 256 people in Qiongkuchak, where Dawut Asim is located More than 2,000 people were killed, more than 2,000 people were seriously injured, and more than 27,000 houses collapsed.

"The day before the earthquake, I played with my grandson until very late before going back to my room..." Every time this was mentioned, Dawuti's voice almost choked.The old man almost wanted to endure his grief, but he almost wanted to shed tears. At 10 a.m. on February 24, 2003, Asimu, secretary of the party branch of No. 6 village in Qiongkuchak Township, was about to call a meeting of the whole village to discuss the issue of helping the needy households in the village.Unexpectedly, before he had walked two hundred meters, he heard a loud bang, the ground shook, and the houses on both sides collapsed. He ran to rescue his wife and second daughter-in-law who were still cooking at home.But the frightening thing is that at this moment, the old man can no longer recognize the location of his own house—seven houses collapsed, and the rising dust covered his eyes, and he finally saw the roof of his own house in a blur. So he desperately dug down with both hands, and as soon as he dug out a large pile of adobe, Asim realized that something was wrong. He thought that the roof was tilted and collapsed, so it was no longer in the original position.He had no choice but to continue searching, and finally saw his own chimney in the ruins. He ran over and continued digging, and found an arm of his wife. When he dug again, he saw his wife and second daughter-in-law pressed together...the man was dead... ...The daughter-in-law was still holding on to her mother-in-law's skirt tightly. She probably wanted to save her mother-in-law at the time, but they both died together...

At this moment, a person ran over and said, your eldest son's family is probably also buried in the house.The old branch secretary ran to the eldest son’s house 40 meters away, where several people were already helping to dig. In less than half an hour, the remains of his eldest son, eldest daughter-in-law and grandson were dug up under the adobe... Five relatives just disappeared. The old party secretary collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down his face. Parting from life and death, it is difficult for those who have not experienced it to know the pain in their hearts.This sudden disaster was a huge blow to Asimu.Walking in the fields of Qiongxiang, you can see ruins and wilderness everywhere. The ruthlessness and cruelty of the disaster are shocking.The ruthless earthquake will never consider the identity of the injured. In a blink of an eye, the lives of 268 people died with the wind and never returned.

All this, the old party secretary saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart. He didn't even care about the great grief of losing his relatives, but abandoned his small family to take care of everyone, buried his relatives in a hurry, and rushed to visit the families of other victims before the funeral was over.At the same time, Dawuti Asim quickly contacted more than a dozen party members in the village, risking aftershocks and went door-to-door to find and rescue survivors.Without tools, they dug by hand.Four hours after the earthquake, they rescued all the villagers buried under the rubble.Later, he began to plan how to lead the villagers to rebuild their homes.

In more than a month of post-disaster reconstruction, Dawuti Asim became the commander-in-chief of the village's earthquake relief work. He organized villagers to receive relief supplies day and night, helped them carry out spring plowing and rebuild their homes.He and other branch members each contracted the construction of houses for 7 hard-hit households and the spring plowing and sowing tasks for more than 200 households in need.The old party secretary often said: As long as I have a breath, I must serve the villagers to the end. On June 30, 2003, all the villagers moved into a sandwich house with a wooden frame that was uniformly planned to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.

Under the leadership of his organization, the village party branch and Communist Party members became the "backbone" and "backbone" of the villagers in times of crisis, which strengthened the villagers' confidence in overcoming disasters and rebuilding their homes.At the post-disaster village meeting, Dawuti Asim, on behalf of the branch members, promised the villagers that "the face of the village must be fundamentally changed."In order to allow the villagers to live in earthquake-resistant housing as soon as possible and resume normal production and life, he worked day and night, trying every means to send the party's warmth to the poor.In view of the lack of arable land in the village, a considerable part of which is saline-alkali land, he led the villagers to reclaim land, adjust the agricultural structure, and vigorously develop animal husbandry.The cultivated land area in the village has increased from the original 4000 mu to the current 5460 mu, and the per capita cultivated land area has expanded to 3.76 mu; the fruit area has increased from 400 mu in 2002 to 1400 mu, and the newly built 100 vegetable greenhouses have also produced significant economic benefits. As a result, the village has also become a cattle-raising professional village in the whole township, and the collective economic income has soared from 21,000 yuan before the earthquake to 350,000 yuan.He is a representative of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and was awarded honorary titles such as National Outstanding Communist Party Member and National Model Worker.