The director of the Alashan League Cultural Tourism Bureau was dismissed, and more than half of the stranded tourists in Ejina Banner have returned.
After the outbreak of this round of epidemic, many officials in Alashan area of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have been held accountable for "ineffective performance of duties" in epidemic prevention and control, and the secretary of Ejina Banner Committee and the director of Alashan League Cultural Tourism Bureau have been dismissed successively.
According to the official micro-signal of Alashan Daily on October 30th, Comrade Sun Jianjun failed to implement the deployment requirements of epidemic prevention and control in the country and autonomous region in time, failed to perform his duties, and failed to promote the work related to epidemic prevention and control, and was removed from his post as Party Secretary and Director of the Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio and Television of Alashan League and Director of the Cultural Relics Bureau of the League.
This round of epidemic since the 18th of this month has interrupted the tourist season in Alashan League, and the return of stranded tourists has become the focus of epidemic prevention work in Alashan League and even in Inner Mongolia. As of the afternoon of the 29th, Ejina Banner, the "hardest hit area" of Alxa League epidemic, has transported 5095 local stranded tourists back in batches.
The epidemic interrupted the tourist season, and the return of tourists became the focus of Alashan League.
League and Banner are unique administrative divisions in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which are equivalent to prefecture level and county level respectively. Ejina Banner is a subordinate banner of Alashan League, and it is also the "hardest hit area" in Alashan area at present.
According to the information of official website, the Health and Health Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, from 0: 00 to 24: 00 on October 29th, there were 19 newly confirmed local cases, including 18 cases in Ejina Banner of Alashan League. In addition, as of 24: 00 on October 29, there were 155 confirmed cases in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, including 132 cases in Ejina Banner of Alashan League.
October is the best viewing period of Populus euphratica forest, and Ejina Banner also welcomes the tourist season. The sudden epidemic since the 18th of this month has forced the golden period of Ejina Banner tourism to be interrupted, and a large number of tourists from other provinces are stranded in the local area.
On the afternoon of October 26th, Alashan League held a press conference on COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control. As of 15: 00 on the 25th, there were 9,412 tourists stranded in Ejina Banner, including 6,024 group tourists and 3,388 individual tourists. The main tourist sources of stranded tourists are Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Gansu, Guangdong and other places.
After this outbreak, promoting the return of stranded tourists has become the focus of epidemic prevention work in Alashan and even the whole Inner Mongolia.
On October 25th, Wang Lixia, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Chairman of the Autonomous Region, presided over a dispatch meeting on the site disposal of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control in Ejina Banner, Alashan League, demanding that every effort be made to meet the reasonable needs of stranded tourists in Ejina Banner.
On 26th, Wang Lixia once again pointed out that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to the service guarantee for stranded tourists and the organization of return trips. The Party committee and government of the autonomous region have made comprehensive arrangements for this, and the key is to implement it strictly, accurately and efficiently.
According to the Inner Mongolia Daily, at 6: 30 in the morning of October 29th, Wang Lixia led Ouyang Xiaohui and Heng Xiaofan, leaders of the autonomous region, to the Ejinaqi toll station of the G7 Expressway, and together with Li Bin, head of the working group of the the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism and deputy director of the National Health and Wellness Commission, inspected and guided the return work of stranded tourists on the spot.
On October 29, Shi Taifeng, secretary of the Party Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and director of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, presided over the dispatching meeting to deal with the epidemic situation in Ejina Banner, stressing that "the stranded tourists should be treated as relatives, and the transshipment work should be done in a closed-loop, safe and orderly manner. One person and one policy should make specific arrangements, strictly implement the practical work plan for return transshipment, and strengthen communication and docking with tourists’ return destinations, so that tourists and all parties can feel at ease."
Meet four health conditionsTransshipment, more than half of the stranded tourists in Ejina Banner have returned in batches.
In the past ten days, Ejina Banner has issued a number of open letters to stranded tourists, informing the local epidemic prevention and control situation and return arrangements, and appeasing the emotions of stranded tourists.
On October 26th, Alashan League Tourism Bureau began to publish the Return Information Form for stranded tourists, collecting information such as tourists’ identity information, return destinations and detailed accommodation addresses, so as to promote the return.
According to CCTV news, at 9: 52 pm on October 27th, the first batch of 586 tourists stranded in Ejina Banner were transported out of Ejina for Zhengzhou by special tourist train.
On the afternoon of 28th, at the second press conference of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control work held in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Zhou Qiang, deputy director of the Transportation Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, introduced that up to then, 4 trains of stranded passengers and 2,428 stranded tourists had been transported through the railway tourist special train, striving to transport most tourists out of Ejina Banner in 3-5 days. Passengers whose health conditions do not meet the transfer requirements will stay for a while.
According to Inner Mongolia Daily, on the morning of October 29th, the first batch of chartered tourists from 113 tour groups set foot on their way back, and they will go to the centralized isolation point in Baotou for unified isolation.
On the afternoon of 29th, the press conference of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control held in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region informed that at present, the tourists who are transported out of Ejina Banner need to meet four health conditions.
First of all, they must be non-positive, non-close-contact and sub-close-contact, and have carried out centralized health monitoring and 4 nucleic acid tests in Ejina Banner for more than 7 days. Secondly, COVID-19’s clinical symptoms such as fever and dry cough did not appear in the past 14 days. Thirdly, adhere to the principle of voluntariness, abide by the relevant provisions of the state on centralized isolation, medical prevention and control observation, closed-loop management requirements in the process of isolation and transshipment, and relevant provisions on centralized observation and isolation management of destinations. Finally, the nucleic acid test results within 48 hours were all negative.
The press conference also informed that as of the afternoon of the 29th, Ejina Banner had transferred 5095 stranded tourists. So far, more than half of the nearly 10,000 tourists stranded in Ejina have returned.
Due to the ineffective prevention and control of the epidemic, many officials in Alashan have been dismissed.
After the outbreak of this round of epidemic, many officials in Alashan region have been held accountable because of the "ineffective performance of their duties" in epidemic prevention and control, and the secretary of the Ejina Banner Committee and the director of the Alashan League Cultural Tourism Bureau have been dismissed successively.
On October 23, the Committee of Ejina Banner of the Communist Party of China issued a circular, stating that since the local COVID-19 epidemic broke out in Ejina Banner on October 17, some departments and units, party member cadres and staff still turned a deaf ear to the epidemic prevention and control work, failed to perform their duties and failed to implement prevention and control measures, which affected the overall situation of prevention and control work.
The circular specifically pointed out three problems: the problem that the relevant responsible persons of Ejina Banner Health and Wellness Committee did not fulfill the responsibility of epidemic prevention and control; Fan Jianyong, Jiao Jia and Xie Zonglong of Ejina Banner Public Security Bureau failed in their duties, and Ejina Banner People’s Hospital failed to implement the responsibility of epidemic prevention and control; The Civil Affairs Bureau of Ejina Banner failed to implement the epidemic prevention and control measures.
In the notification, Qujiang Hui, the former party secretary and director of Ejina Banner Health and Health Committee, and Liu Qin, the former party member and deputy director, were dismissed, and Tunamula, the party member and deputy director of Ejina Banner Health and Health Committee, was dismissed by informed criticism.
On October 26th, Inner Mongolia Daily reported that in order to compact the territorial responsibility of epidemic prevention and control and intensify the front-line prevention and control work, the Party Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region decided that Dai Qin, secretary of Alxa League Committee, would also serve as secretary of Ejina Banner Committee. Comrade Chen Zhanyun was removed from the post of secretary of Ejina Banner Committee because of his conscientious performance and ineffective implementation in epidemic prevention and control work.
Alashan Daily’s official micro-signal "Alashan Today" was reported on October 30th. According to the research decision of the Alashan League Committee, Comrade Sun Jianjun failed to implement the deployment requirements for epidemic prevention and control in the state and autonomous regions in time, failed to perform his duties effectively, and the work related to epidemic prevention and control was not in place. He was removed from his post as Party Secretary, Director and Director of the Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio and Television of Alashan League.
According to public information, Sun Jianjun has been working in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia since he joined the work in 1991. Since January 2019, Sun Jianjun has served as Party Secretary and Director of the Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio and Television of Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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