Tianjia'an District, Huainan City, Anhui Province, Used High Technology to Seize Illegal Submersible Sand Dredger Again

of April 7, when the staff of the Office of the Anti-Illegal Sand Mining Command in Tianjia'an District, Huainan City, Anhui Province, were on duty, they found signs of illegal sand mining near the entrance and exit of Liyun Wharf in Shitoubu Section of Huaihe River, and quickly and decisively reported the situation to the leaders of the district in charge. The leaders in charge of the district attached great importance to it and instructed the Agricultural and Rural Water Conservancy Bureau of the district to take the lead in organizing relevant units and departments to deal with it immediately.

According to the instructions, the principal responsible person of the District Agricultural and Rural Water Conservancy Bureau personally arranged the deployment, organized the District Agricultural and Rural Water Conservancy Bureau, the Water Police Station, the Tianjia'an Maritime Department and the Blue Sky Rescue Team to rush to the scene immediately, and used sonar detectors, UAVs and other equipment to detect and search, and quickly locked the underwater hidden location of the illegal diving sand dredger. Members of the Party group and responsible persons of the District Agricultural and Rural Water Conservancy Bureau took the lead, lived and ate with the staff of relevant units and departments on the spot to guard the ship, contacted professional salvage teams and divers, and after two days and one night of hard work, salvaged the diving illegal sand dredger out of the water at 23:00 on April 8, and safely towed it to the designated location to dock, and arranged for special guards.

In recent years, Tianjia'an District Agricultural and Rural Water Conservancy Bureau has purchased professional equipment such as law enforcement recorders and unmanned aerial vehicles, strengthened industry supervision by using the water conservancy grass-roots early warning system, and enhanced the ability of law enforcement and crackdown. In strict accordance with the arrangements of the Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau and the District Committee and District Government, Tianjia'an District Agricultural and Rural Water Conservancy Bureau has intensified its efforts to crack down on illegal sand mining and regularly carried out law enforcement inspections. Next, Tianjia'an District will announce and evaluate the illegal submersible sand dredger, dismantle and destroy it, and publicly transfer the residual value.