Riverside police

Since the day I started writing about sand mining, some book friends have had doubts about whether the local government had and would pay attention to illegal sand mining in the 1990s, and they objected to the rationality of the story. I would like to explain it here.

First of all, Binjiang is located at the end of the Yangtze River and is a golden waterway for long-distance shipping. Thousands of large and small ships pass by every day, which is directly related to the economic development of the Yangtze River Delta, so water transportation safety is more important than anything else.

Secondly, in the years after Jiangnan Province entered the 1990s, floods occurred almost every year, resulting in huge economic losses. Illegal sand mining also caused serious damage to the river embankment. The collapse of the Zhenjiang embankment mentioned in the previous chapter was Really happened.

Whether it is for water transportation safety or flood control considerations, superiors must pay attention to it.

In fact, as early as a few months before the 1998 flood, the Jiangnan Provincial People's Congress had legislated to strictly prohibit sand mining along the entire southern section of the Yangtze River. It was the first in the country and several years before the State Council's regulations.

At that time, Mayor Zhenjiang personally went to the river to direct the attack and arrested everyone he saw.

This is a regional difference. The phenomena existing in the middle and upper reaches cannot be used to measure the lower reaches where water transportation is most developed and where floods are most likely to occur.

A final spoiler: you may only know that the 98 flood was huge. In fact, for Jiangnan Province, the losses caused by the 97 flood exceeded 98.

Because the flood of 1997 caused huge losses, the province attached great importance to illegal sand mining and the reinforcement of river embankments. At the end of 1997, the province invested several hundred million and local governments provided supporting funds to renovate river embankments. At the execution gate, no one died.