After record rainfall hit Beijing, Tianjin, and parts of surrounding Hebei Province last week, the Chinese communist regime deliberately diverted floodwaters to nearby areas in Hebei Province to protect Beijing and new political hub Xiong’an, causing cities, villages, and vast swathes of farmland to be submerged in rapidly rising water.
Among them, Zhuozhou city and nearby areas were hit the hardest. Besides the immeasurable loss of life, property, and livelihood, the diverted floods have also destroyed large scale high-tech industrial parks in the area. The estimated economic loss to the Chinese state-owned tech companies is astronomical, according to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) internal document obtained by The Epoch Times.
Zhuozhou city has a provincial-level economic development zone, which includes the Jingnan Economic Development Zone, High-tech Industrial Development Zone, and Songlindian Economic Development Zone, according to a report by Chinese state media outlet Global Times on Nov. 16, 2021. Many central governmental organizations and large state-owned enterprises have already set up their branches and sub-companies in Zhuozhou. They have been hit hard by the floods, according to the document.
The internal document, dated Aug. 7, is an incomplete data form of the estimated economic losses of some enterprises in the development zone.
CCP State Enterprises Suffered Huge Losses
Among the recorded enterprises, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), a military enterprise that manufactures aircraft carriers, suffered the biggest loss. Six of its subcompanies and projects lost equipment and property worth hundreds of millions of yuan.The construction project of the China Power Research Center in the China Shipbuilding Industry Marine Equipment Science and Technology Industrial Park suffered a loss of 10 million yuan ($1.38 million) according to preliminary estimates.
The initial estimated loss for the Zhuozhou CSIC 612 project was 6.15 million yuan (about $850,000).
In the construction project of the commercial complex of Zhuozhou Marine Equipment Science and Technology Industrial Park of CSIC, the preliminary estimated losses came to about 25.2 million yuan ($3.48 million).
The construction project of the residential area of Zhuozhou Marine Equipment Science and Technology Industrial Park of CSIC had a preliminary estimated loss of 205.5 million yuan ($28.4 million).
In the first section of the photoelectric technology industrial base construction project of Zhuozhou Marine Science and Technology Industrial Park of CSIC, the initial estimated loss was 60 million yuan ($8.3 million).
And the first phase construction project of Zhuozhou Industrial Base of CSIC Zhuozhou Great Wall Information Technology Co., Ltd. has a preliminary estimated loss of 50 million yuan ($6.9 million).
Other companies that suffered large losses include the Zhuozhou Base of China Iron and Steel Research Institute, with a preliminary estimate of 104.3 million yuan ($14.4 million); Tianbao Smart Science and Technology Park, with a preliminary estimate of 40 million yuan ($5.53 million); and Beijing Aerospace Sanfa High-Tech Co., Ltd. Xinrui Electromechanical Zhuozhou Branch, with an estimated loss of 150 million yuan ($20.7 million).
The Inspur Group has lost an estimated 53.12 million yuan ($7.34 million) due to the floods at its big data service center project in the Zhuozhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone. The project has a total investment of about 1.8 billion yuan ($249 million) and a total construction area of 4.6 million square feet, according to mainland Chinese news portal Sohu.com.
The Epoch Times called some enterprises in the Zhuozhou economic development zone on Aug. 10. Their phone lines were either busy or the calls were transferred to an auto-response. The call to the construction project of the residential area of Zhuozhou Marine Equipment Science and Technology Industrial Park of CSIC was connected, but staff hurriedly hung up upon learning it was a media outlet calling.
Dongping (alias), an insider in the CCP system in Zhuozhou, told The Epoch Times on Aug. 10 that the water in the development zone went down the same day and that part of the silt was cleared. Now, the villages and towns are being hit hard by the flood. Also, it’s known that PetroChina has an engine compound in the development zone, which suffered a loss of 800 million yuan ($110.55 million).
“The largest company here is PetroChina, and they’re large tax revenue contributors,” Dongping said.
Zhuozhou’s Advantage Over Xiong'an
Dongping said that one of Zhuozhou’s advantages is that it has a high-tech development zone, mainly because Zhuozhou is very close to Beijing, which is convenient for scientific researchers. For example, the important servers of some large CCP central government-owned enterprises are placed there, as are their R&D departments.“[Zhuozhou] is very close to the headquarters of the companies, and the ... conditions here are much better than Xiong‘an, and the supporting facilities are relatively good. Everyone is willing to come here instead of Xiong’an. Xiong'an is far away, the supporting facilities are lagging behind. It’s less than an hour from here to Beijing.”
Xiong’an is CCP leader Xi Jinping’s planned new political hub. Situated between Beijing and Xiong’an, the city of Zhuozhou and its nearby areas—home to about a million people—were subsequently flooded as authorities decided to sacrifice the regions as a “flood containment zone.”
“[The CCP’s] entire flood control design is not focused on the safety of people’s lives. The main urban areas of Beijing or Tianjin, where the central government is located and the newly built Xiong’an New Area are the focus of its protection,” Mr. Wang said.
