At 12:52 on September 5, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 16 kilometers occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and 7 people were killed.

       After the earthquake, POWERCHINA Chengdu immediately started the earthquake disaster emergency rescue plan and held an emergency video conference. Huang He, which is the Party secretary and chairman of the company, and He Yanfeng, which is the deputy party secretary and general manager, together with other leaders deployed relevant work at the conference, then the company conducted emergency response and comprehensive earthquake damage survey.

       After investigation, 24 projects of 7 corporations, including the investigation and design coporation, construction engineering corporation and Ertan International corporation, are in the earthquake-affected area. Yinliangbao hydropower station, Luding hydropower station, Zhentouba hydropower station and Changheba hydropower station felt it strongly. In addition, the company has "China Digital Hydropower" and "River Basin Safety Emergency Platform", which can quickly provide information services such as watershed project location and their characteristics, and quickly undertook the investigation of the earthquake damage and so on.

       By 16:00, all project staff and travelers were safe. Each project department has launched emergency response according to the company's emergency plan requirements, and relevant personnel have started to cooperate with the owner and other units to investigate the project safety risks, investigate the earthquake damage and evaluate the stability. The preliminary investigation results show that with the roads and bridges of Yinliangbao project have been damaged to a certain extent and the road is full of rolling stones, so that the traffic is seriously blocked. The chamber has collapsed, and relevant personnel are conducting further inspections to understand the situation.

       At the same time, the emergency rescue team of POWERCHINA Chengdu is ready to put into emergency rescue at any time according to the requirements of the government and relevant departments, to give full play the disaster rescue experience and experience of engineering construction in the region, and to actively fulfill the responsibility of State-owned enterprises.