On June 5, Shuohuang Railway Company organized an unprecedented flood prevention and emergency rescue drill across three locations at the same time—Suning County in Hebei Province, Yuanping City in Shanxi Province, and Dongying City in Shandong Province, thoroughly testing the comprehensive capabilities of preventing and fending off floods and emergency rescue for all staff. Adhering strictly to the principles of “scenario-based and results-oriented”, this has been the most extensive emergency drill conducted by the Company in its 25 years of operation, involving the widest range of scenarios and the largest number of participants to date.
The exercise featured 22 realistic and highly targeted projects including slope collapse repair, tunnel rail vehicle recovery, locomotive re-railing operations on derailed vehicles, covering critical sections throughout Shuohuang Railway’s transportation and production. Notably, the drill innovatively introduced two new projects—the recovery and rescue of large-machine tamping vehicles and the shunting and re-railing of 200-tonne railway cranes and crane locomotives, setting scenarios that precisely reflected rescue demands in complex environments. During the drill, over 600 participants from six internal subsidiaries, three direct centers, seven intermodal units, four flood prevention construction units under agreement, Railway Equipment Company, and local rescue agencies including the Shuning County Fire Brigade, responded swiftly, coordinated seamlessly, and performed their tasks effectively within the designated timeframes. The entire exercise demonstrated the high efficiency of integrated labor collaboration among train operation depot, locomotive depot, track maintenance depot, electricity depot and wagon depot, fulfilling the “four integrations” demands of the central station. It significantly enhanced the core coordination role of the central station in emergency management, effectively extending rescue capacities to primary levels.
This drill also pioneered the “railway—local—water” tripartite emergency coordination mechanism, which involves real-time information sharing and the complementary use of emergency resources among the Shuohuang Railway, local emergency management departments, and water conservation agencies in the basin, significantly improving cross-unit, cross-region emergency responsiveness. Real-time remote video monitoring thoroughly tested the capabilities of unified command and multi-unit coalition operations, providing sharp simulations of real rescue scenarios to ensure maximum authenticity and effectiveness.
