By Reporter Zhang Wencheng
It was the 15th "national defense education day" in China on September 19. On the day, the district organized the trial sounding and exercise of the air defense warning. Deputy district governor Qian Yuanyun guided the work at the district headquarters for the trial sounding.
On the morning of the day, the district civil defense office and Jingxing Road Sub-district organized the residents to carry out the air defense exercise along with the trial sounding of air defense warning at Hongye Mingyuan Community. At 11:35 am, with the sounding of the air defense warning, nearly 400 residents, under the guidance of civil defense volunteers, evacuated orderly from the residential buildings to the civil defense facilities.
In addition, the traffic police branch, firehouse branch, commission of health and family planning and other units also participated in the exercise, effectively testing the capacity of the district for air defense emergency evacuation and improving the public’s awareness of the importance of national defense.
It is learnt that both the sounding rate and the coverage of the sirens in the district reached 100%. During the trial sounding, about 6,300 persons in the 67 residential areas in the sub-districts of the district participated in the air defense exercise.