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2026.09.04 21:39 GMT+8

China keeps mudslide rescuers safe with ground radar and drones

Updated 2026.09.04 21:39 GMT+8
CGTN

A slope radar system is deployed at the rescue site in the Gyirong Port disaster zone to monitor deformation of unstable rock masses and strengthen safety measures for rescue operations, Gyirong County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, September 3, 2026. /VCG

China has deployed ground radar, drones and specialists to build an integrated early-warning system in Gyirong County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, keeping rescuers safe after last week's mudslide disaster. 

Thirty-nine personnel from three national emergency rescue teams – split into two groups – moved into the disaster zone on Friday, setting up monitoring points and aerial surveying systems to track secondary disaster risks in real time.

One group installed a portable slope radar and conducted drone surveys to track slope changes around the port area.

The other group focused on the upstream barrier lake, adding a new monitoring site in a high-risk geological area northeast of the Jilong No. 2 open-cut tunnel. They are also continuing to monitor the lake's dam, the landslide body on the southern bank, the hillside at a bend in the downstream channel, and slope No. 2 at the barrier lake in Guoba Village.  

The team also completed high-precision aerial topographic surveying of the newly identified high-risk area.

So far, the teams have logged 192 hours of monitoring, collected 3,520 sets of data, and carried out 150 drone missions.

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