2015年CRI SPP Starts investigating Shenzhen Landslide

 

The Supreme¹ People's Procuratorate announcement comes just a day after a State Council investigation² team confirmed the landslide³ is being probed as a work safety incident, not a geological disaster.

The massive pile that poured down to the industrial park was once a green space, which included water, in 2013.

By the time the incident took place, the same area was a pile of soil and construction waste up to 185-meters high.

Local businesses and people living in the region had reportedly been complaining about the growth of the pile for the past couple of years.

"It was a hundred-meter-high mountain, with hundreds of trucks lining⁴ up to keep dumping soil on it every day. For 2-years, we'd been complaining about this, reporting it to the environmental authorities, thinking all-the-while that something was going to go wrong."

"It was too dusty. We talked to the local police. All of them knew!"

Despite the complaints, nothing was done about it.

In September, the Shenzhen Jiangxing Project Management Advisory⁵ Company began assessing the potential danger, submitting daily and monthly reports to the district management bureau.

Four days before the massive pile came tumbling down, the company reportedly met the management bureau, along with two other companies, issuing a call to stop dumping on the site and fix the danger.

However, the order did not have any effect.

A large number of vehicles kept climbing the "hill" to dump waste until the massive pile finally gave way.

Prosecutors⁶ from both the central government and the provincial⁷ government of Guangdong have formed a special team to investigate the incident.

Yang Huanning, Director-General of National Security Control, is heading the investigation team.

"The investigation team will find out exactly what caused the accident, as well as make clear who is responsible for this. We well also put forward suggestions for making sure it doesn't happen again, which will include putting forward proposals for who should ultimately be responsible."

Yang Huanning says one key focus of the investigation will be whether there are issues such as abuse of power, dereliction of duty or bending the law for personal interests.

Only one person has been pulled alive from the massive collapse⁸.

Seven bodies have also been recovered, while 75 others remain unaccounted for.

More than 5-thousand people from 4 different recovery teams are divided into 16 different search zones at the site.

Hundreds of excavators have also been gathered from nearby cities to help clear the huge volume of soil and building waste.

Authorities are warning there is still a "certain risk" of more landslides⁹ at three separate locations on the site.

And while dangerous chemicals are known to have been stored on the site, so far no air or water contamination has been detected.

For CRI, I'm Niu Honglin.

1 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 landslide   

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利

参考例句：

• Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
• An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。

4 lining   

n.衬里，衬料

参考例句：

• The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
• Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。

5 advisory   

adj.劝告的，忠告的，顾问的，提供咨询

参考例句：

• I have worked in an advisory capacity with many hospitals.我曾在多家医院做过顾问工作。
• He was appointed to the advisory committee last month.他上个月获任命为顾问委员会委员。

6 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

7 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

8 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

9 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。