Have all the more than 50,000 tourists in Jiuzhaigou been moved to safe areas?

According to reports, the person in charge of the Sichuan Provincial Government Information Office said that as of 22:00 on the 9th, the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Jiuzhaigou had killed 19 people, injured 343 people, and injured more than 50,000 tourists (including 126 foreign tourists) All have been moved to safe areas for proper placement or have been transferred to Mianyang, Chengdu and other places.

It is reported that at 21:19 on August 8, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Jiuzhaigou County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with a focal depth of 20 kilometers. Jiuzhaigou is China’s first natural disaster zone with the main purpose of protecting natural scenery. The protected area is in the peak tourist season for Jiuzhaigou. On the day of the earthquake, Jiuzhaigou received 38,799 tourists, approaching the scenic spot's maximum capacity.

After the earthquake, the Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area Management Bureau organized 80 buses to evacuate tourists in the scenic area, and evacuated long-distance individual passengers from Tianyuan Howard Johnson, Dream Jiuzhai and other places in Zhangzha Town to the Pingwu Passenger Transport Center, which affected Jiuzhaigou Valley. Short-distance tourists within the county carry out circular transportation and pick up and drop off the injured. To facilitate evacuation, Sichuan has implemented traffic control on all relevant road sections in the disaster area, and all public vehicles are prohibited from going to the disaster area.

In addition, all scheduled flights at Jiuhuang Airport on the 9th were canceled due to air traffic control. However, with the support of Southwest Civil Aviation Administration and Sichuan Supervision Bureau, Jiuhuang Airport applied for 12 overtime flights to Chengdu and Chongqing. Transfer stranded passengers. In the past two days, Jiuhuang Airport has dispatched 18 outbound flights and 2,228 passengers. All passengers stranded at Jiuhuang Airport due to the earthquake have been transported.

It is reported that 227 original hidden danger points have been inspected and reviewed in Jiuzhaigou County, and 33 new hidden danger points have been found. The inspection work is accelerating. We hope that the damage caused by the Jiuzhaigou earthquake to the local area will be healed as soon as possible. flat! Come on Jiuzhai!