First-line interview: 300,000 northern drifters have a hard time living after Yanjiao’s city closure

The epidemic in Hebei, mainland China, has suddenly surged, with 598 confirmed cases, including asymptomatic infections, in Shijiazhuang alone as of Jan. 12, according to internal Communist Party information. In order to protect Beijing, 300,000 young northerners living in Yanjiao, which is sandwiched between Beijing and Hebei, are banned from going to work in Beijing, and they are facing a difficult life in this wave of epidemic.

The latest data released by Xinhua News Agency on the 15th shows that: as of 24:00 on the 14th, there are 553 confirmed local cases in Hebei Province (17 heavy cases, 471 ordinary cases, 65 light cases), and 2 confirmed cases imported from abroad (ordinary type). According to internal information from the Chinese Communist Party, as of January 12, Shijiazhuang alone had 598 confirmed cases, including asymptomatic infected persons.

As the epidemic in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, continues to spread to the surrounding radiation, causing many places in Hebei to make emergency announcements, including Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Langfang and other full city closures, while in fact the entire Hebei Province has been fully closed to cities, neighborhoods and villages.

Three river city full nucleic acid testing and home isolation for 7 days

According to public information, Yanjiao town is located in the northern part of Langfang City, Hebei Province, the most northern of the three counties, the western end of the city of Sanhe, 35 km from the center of the capital city of Beijing, is the closest area outside the Beijing administrative region from the city.

According to Mr. Zhao, a local real estate agent in Yanjiao, he told the Epoch Times on the 15th that the city has been closed until the 20th, and the situation after a week is still unknown.

He also said that Yanjiao officials have not released the epidemic, but the entire Langfang city has to do a full nucleic acid test, and after the nucleic acid test, they are quarantined at home for seven days. He himself just finished the nucleic acid test.

According to the “Notice of full nucleic acid testing and home isolation observation in Sanhe City” issued by the Sanhe City Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group on January 12, the city’s Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group decided to conduct the first full nucleic acid test in three days from now, and those who participated in the test must be isolated at home for seven days to wait for the second nucleic acid test in accordance with the urgent deployment of the higher level.

The announcement also said that from noon on January 12, the city-wide implementation of villagers, residents access control, in addition to sickness for medical treatment, epidemic prevention and control and to protect the operation of public utilities and other important positions related to the people’s livelihood needs, villagers, residents home isolation period shall not go out.

There are also all villages and communities to implement closed management, particularly important positions need access, with a negative nucleic acid certificate, a letter from the unit, my ID card and photo to the village, community applications for access cards.

In addition, all people with a history of travel and residence in medium and high risk areas were advised to return and were not allowed to enter Sanhe City.

On the same day, three river epidemic prevention and control work leading group also issued the “announcement on the trajectory of the action of Zhang, a close contact of the person who tested positive for nucleic acid of the new crown virus in Gu’an”, said Zhang resides in Sanhe City, and the person who tested positive for nucleic acid in Gu’an is an office colleague.

The official inventory of Zhang’s action trajectory from January 5 to January 10, hoping that the attention of the drivers, co-passengers and shoppers involved in the same car, the first time to contact the Sanhe CDC, and temporarily do not go out, timely contact with the neighborhood committee, waiting for the notice of control of the neighborhood committee.

Yanjiao closed city 300,000 northern drifters living hard

The real estate agent in Yanjiao, Mr. Wang, said that since noon on the 12th, all buses and trains to Beijing in Yanjiao have been stopped, and Yanjiao can’t get out, but you can still get in if you live there, just don’t let go out, and the rental and purchase business is suspended during the epidemic, and everything is waiting to be unsealed.

About 300,000 northern drifters living in Yanjiao take the Beijing-Jiji bus to Beijing every morning to work, and then return to Hebei after work.

Some netizens lamented, “Yanjiao, which is not next to Hebei, is a place that survives by the seams! The epidemic in Beijing is serious, Yanjiao has to share the hardship; the epidemic in Hebei is serious, Yanjiao has to share the risk! Life is too damn hard!”

Some netizens say that their colleagues are from Yanjiao, and they don’t go back since the 12th, and the local area is closed at noon.

There are also people who can’t go to work in the capital said that the bonus at the end of this year is estimated to go down the drain, and the job is not sure if it can still be kept.

According to Beijing Bus Group official microblogging news, in order to cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control work, Langfang City, Sanhe City, Dazhan Hui Autonomous County, Xianghe County government departments concerned, from the first car on January 13, 21 cross-Beijing-Hebei operation of bus lines will take measures to stop driving. And the leading group of epidemic prevention and control suggested that the ground (northern) staff work from home.

According to the online disclosure video, Yanjiao, Hebei suddenly closed the city to close the district, the local so-called party members of the vanguard team composed of community service personnel berated the public, not allowing the public out of the district, saying that the government regulations. Unless there is proof that someone in your family went to see a doctor.

In order to prevent a tidal wave of Hebei people and those drifting north to Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party installed protective nets on the west bank of the Bai River, which separates Yanjiao from Tongzhou City, to block people from going to Beijing through the frozen river, and they also set up tents and assigned special guards.

Some people mocked that how serious this has to be to escape, braving the cold of the three ninths to install protective nets, suffering, my country my people.

Baihu Lake, which separates Yanjiao from Beijing’s Tongzhou district, was separated by a barbed wire fence to stop northern drifters from traveling to the capital through the frozen river. (Screenshot from the internet)

There is also a video showing that after Yanjiao was closed, a large number of people were waiting at the entrance of the fifth phase of the district in Yanjiao early in the morning on the 13th, and they were all in a hurry due to the lack of electricity, water and gas.

On the same day, there was also a video showing hundreds of people in Yanjiao Fucheng neighborhood in Langfang, Hebei province, who were dissatisfied with the sudden official closure of the neighborhood and flocked to the barricade to ask the police to give an account, but were treated rudely and to no avail.

Prices have risen by 20% to 30%

Langfang, Hebei, doing small business, Mr. Zhang introduced Langfang ten days ago folk rumors of one or two cases of confirmed cases, now the official did not announce that there are positive patients. Now Langfang closed, the community needs to register to go out, the nearby supermarkets are still open, but prices are much more expensive than before, basically rose by 20% to 30%.

Mr. Zhang said he just had a second round of nucleic acid testing today (15th). This year, the New Year has only begun, the epidemic in Hebei is so serious, Mr. Zhang said he was worried but there was nothing he could do.

The county-level city of Dingzhou in Hebei is also closed

The entire epidemic situation in Hebei is quite serious, the official high-profile announcement of only Shijiazhuang, Xingtai City, Langfang City, etc. closed management, but in fact the entire Hebei has been drawn, each closed management, and cut off all highways into Beijing.

Mr. Liu of Dingzhou, Hebei Province, told the Epoch Times that local officials have not reported the discovery of confirmed cases in Dingzhou, but the entire village has begun to close, leaving only one exit, the rest are closed, and the rules of the villagers can not go out, out can not come back, and even the villagers of the same village are not allowed to communicate with each other.

“My sister-in-law is working in Shijiazhuang, she can’t come back now, my brother can’t take care of himself, almost no food to eat. He is considered to be more open in the local mix, I have a relative from my brother that village is quite close, through that entrance and exit to come in and help my brother cook something to eat. We Dingzhou used to belong to Baoding city, now is the provincial takeover of the county-level city, very close to Shijiazhuang.” He said.

“My nephew got a job in Shijiazhuang, and my sister-in-law went over to see him. They have done a second full test. My elder brother said, I guess they can’t go back to Dingzhou until New Year.”