1998 which soldiers died in the flood fighting?

19 PLA officers and men died in the flood fighting in198.

At 20: 30 on August 1 and 1998, the levee of Hezhen Town, Jiayu County, Hubei Province burst. The levee is a beach levee between the Yangtze River levees. After the dam break, the provincial flood control headquarters urgently mobilized 2,000 people from the People's Liberation Army, armed police officers and policemen, used more than 50 assault boats and rubber boats/KLOC-0 for emergency rescue, and dropped 654,380+000 life jackets. During the whole rescue process, 19 PLA officers and men died heroically.

On August 5th, Li Xiangqun, a soldier from the 9th Company of the Tashan Garrison Heroes, a group army in Guangzhou Military Region, went to Jingzhou, Hubei Province with his troops to fight floods and rescue. 1998, and on June 4th, he gloriously joined the front line of China Production Party to fight floods and rescue.

In the battle against floods in Nanping Town, Gongan County, he insisted on emergency rescue, fainted on the levee four times, and finally died heroically1August 22, 998, at the age of 20.

1998 flood disaster characteristics

1998 The flood disaster is serious, with wide influence and long duration. Under the leadership of the Party and the government, the broad masses of soldiers and civilians fought bravely against floods, and the water conservancy projects built since the founding of New China have played a great role, greatly reducing the losses caused by disasters. Twenty-nine provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) in China suffered from floods to varying degrees.

According to statistics of various provinces, the affected area of farmland is 22.29 million hectares (334 million mu), the disaster-stricken area is 65.438+0378 million hectares (207 million mu), 46.5438+050 people died, 6.85 million houses collapsed, and the direct economic loss is 255.65438 billion yuan. Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Jilin and other provinces (regions) are the hardest hit areas.