陇中日报 (LONGZHONG DAILY) — 中国甘肃省陇中县
2030年1月11日 星期五 — 第一版
面对”天外之声” 我县保持冷静有序
县委县政府部署应对工作 粮油储备充足 广大群众切勿抢购囤积 务工返乡人员安置工作有序展开
本报讯（记者 马晓兰） 连日来,所谓”天外之声”广播事件引发全球关注,我县部分群众出现恐慌情绪。1月10日,县委书记马文山主持召开全县应急工作会议,传达上级有关精神,要求全县上下”不信谣、不传谣、不造谣”,坚决维护社会大局稳定。
马文山在会上指出,我县地处内陆腹地,距最近海岸线一千八百余公里,远在广播所述”禁区”范围之外。”天塌下来,先塌不到陇中。群众要有这个定力。”他同时要求各乡镇做好粮食、食盐、燃料等生活物资的保障供应工作。
抢购现象有所抬头。 记者昨日在县城百信超市看到,食盐、面粉、蜡烛、火柴等货架多次售空。超市经理王建国表示,食盐日销量达平时二十倍以上。”盐是够的,库存充足,请大家放心。”县商务局已启动价格监测,对哄抬物价行为将依法查处。
务工人员返乡潮提前到来。 县火车站数据显示,近两周由广东、浙江方向返乡人员较去年同期增长近四倍,大量群众提前返乡”观望”。在东莞务工八年的王贵富告诉记者:”厂里广东同事都在往内地送家属。我们老家在山里,反而成了好地方。这个年,全家人要在一起过。”县人社局表示,已启动返乡人员登记和临时安置工作,并研究组织返乡劳动力参与春季农田水利建设。
广播语言问题引发学界关注。 据县民族宗教事务局介绍,有关广播除普通话外,亦含东乡语、保安语、撒拉语及安多藏语等我省少数民族语言,发音纯正,当地群众均能听懂。更有兰州学者初步判断,广播语言中疑含已消亡数百年之西夏语(党项语),我县已致函兰州大学有关专家进一步核实。县一中教师李秀梅对记者说:”东乡族学生家长来问我,天上的声音怎么会说东乡话。我说,我也不知道。但孩子们忽然都愿意跟爷爷奶奶学本族话了,这是我教书三十年没见过的事。”
县委宣传部再次提醒广大群众:有关小行星预计三月下旬抵达,在此之前一切如常。请勿轻信网络谣言,勿抢购囤积,发现造谣传谣行为请及时向有关部门举报。
[English translation — for the reader’s convenience; not part of the in-world document]
FACING THE “VOICES FROM BEYOND THE SKY,” OUR COUNTY REMAINS CALM AND ORDERLY — County Party Committee and Government deploy response work; grain and oil reserves are sufficient; the masses must not panic-buy and hoard; resettlement of returning migrant workers proceeds in an orderly manner.
(Reporter: Ma Xiaolan) In recent days, the so-called “voices from beyond the sky” broadcast incident has drawn global attention, and panic has appeared among some of our county’s residents. On January 10, County Party Secretary Ma Wenshan convened an all-county emergency work conference, relaying the spirit of instructions from higher levels and requiring all in the county to “not believe rumours, not spread rumours, not create rumours,” and to resolutely safeguard overall social stability.
Ma Wenshan noted that our county lies deep in the interior, more than 1,800 kilometres from the nearest coastline, far outside the “forbidden zone” described in the broadcasts. “If the sky falls, it will not fall on Longzhong first. The masses must hold on to that steadiness.” He also required all townships to guarantee the supply of grain, salt, fuel, and other daily necessities.
Panic-buying has begun to rise. At the Baixin Supermarket in the county seat yesterday, this reporter saw shelves of salt, flour, candles and matches repeatedly sold out. Manager Wang Jianguo said daily salt sales have reached more than twenty times normal. “There is enough salt; stocks are ample; please be at ease.” The County Commerce Bureau has activated price monitoring and will investigate price-gouging according to law.
The wave of returning migrant workers has arrived early. County railway station data show that returnees from Guangdong and Zhejiang over the past two weeks have increased nearly fourfold over the same period last year, with large numbers coming home early to “wait and see.” Wang Guifu, who worked eight years in Dongguan, told this reporter: “My Guangdong co-workers at the factory are all sending their families inland. Our old home in the mountains has turned out to be the good place after all. This New Year, the whole family will be together.” The County Human Resources Bureau said it has begun registration and temporary resettlement of returnees, and is studying the organization of returned labour for spring farmland and irrigation construction.
The question of the broadcast languages has drawn scholarly attention. According to the County Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau, the broadcasts include, besides Standard Chinese, the Dongxiang, Bonan, and Salar languages and Amdo Tibetan — minority languages of our province — with pure pronunciation fully intelligible to local residents. Scholars in Lanzhou have further made a preliminary judgment that the broadcast languages may include Tangut (the Xixia language), extinct for several hundred years; our county has written to relevant experts at Lanzhou University for verification. Li Xiumei, a teacher at County No. 1 Middle School, told this reporter: “Dongxiang parents come to ask me how the voice in the sky can speak Dongxiang. I tell them I do not know either. But the children have all suddenly become willing to learn their own language from their grandparents — in thirty years of teaching I have never seen such a thing.”
The County Party Propaganda Department once again reminds the masses: the asteroids are expected to arrive in late March; until then, everything continues as normal. Do not credit online rumours, do not panic-buy and hoard, and promptly report rumour-mongering to the relevant departments.