The Central Military Commission (CMC) conferred the first-class collective merit upon an installation regiment of the Engineering and Technical Contingent of the Second Artillery Force (SAF) recently. The victory meeting was held on May 13 in the Engineering and Technical Contingent.

　　Jing Zhiyuan, member of the Central Military Commission and commander of the SAF, read out the circular order of conferring collective first-class merit upon the regiment signed by Hu Jintao, chairman of the Central Military Commission, awarded the certificate of merit and gave a speech.

　　After the happening of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the officers and men of the regiment rush-repaired 17 km power circuit in Hanwang Town, Mianzhu City in 4 hours and resumed the emergent power supply of 3 rescue and treatment centers in Mianzhu City in just 6 hours, saving precious time for rescuing more than 2,000 severely-wounded people.

　　The officers and men of the regiment saved 6 local people stranded in deep mountains for 5 consecutive days and nights at the risk of their own lives. They rebuilt the damaged power grid in Hanwang, Dongbei and Jiulong towns, resumed nearly 20,000 m of water and gas supply trunk pipelines, and restored the automatic monitoring system of the Jiannanchun Group and the internal network system of the Mianzhu Bureau of Public Security.

　　By Xu Yeqing and Chen Shoufu