On August 5, 20 14, a reporter from the Central Broadcasting Bureau claimed that "cooking noodles in muddy water" was true and "all colleagues ate it." Hao Junshi, deputy director of the News Department of the World Wide Web, issued an apology statement in Weibo. The full text is as follows:
After watching the video, the troops did eat instant noodles in muddy water. The logistics was organized locally, not cooked by the troops. The muddy water was tap water, and disinfection pills were put in. The army told us that soldiers would not be allowed to eat unclean water, but they were not responsible for cooking for themselves, so both common sense and fact were correct. The local staff who cook boiled noodles are also right. Other units are responsible for disaster relief, and they are responsible for logistics. It is an irresistible objective condition for them to muddy tap water. It is also true that the officers who asked the soldiers not to talk too much about instant noodles at the scene sold their living materials to the affected people, and it was their tradition not to talk about conditions in the face of any situation; The reporters and photographers who reported on the spot are even more correct. They reported the facts and apologized to the reporters of China Broadcasting Network and Tencent Photographers ahead. It's my fault. The title I took easily denied everything. It's common sense that troops won't eat muddy water noodles, but it's also true that they did. Only in China, the disaster relief troops will eat the muddy water cooked by ordinary people. On the afternoon of August 4th, 20 14, the rescue team of Yunnan Frontier Defense Corps of the Armed Police received a call for help from Liu Yuanyu and Liu Jiahua, the father and son of No.9 Guangming Village, Longtoushan Town, saying that their Dalin Village had a mudslide due to the earthquake. They asked the rescue team to look at the landslide and help find the whereabouts of their wife. The search and rescue troops were blocked by the dammed lake formed by the earthquake on their way to Dalin Village. Xie Qiao volunteered to jump into the dammed lake and swim to the other side. When he was about to land, aftershocks occurred, and the boulder on the mountain fell into the water to form a huge whirlpool. Xie Qiao was also hit by the falling rock and disappeared into the water.
On August 8, 20 14, after four days and four nights of continuous salvage, the body of Xie Qiao, a soldier of Yunnan Frontier Defense Corps who participated in the rescue of Zhaotong Ludian earthquake, was salvaged ashore. In the past few days and nights since Xie Qiao disappeared, everyone has been searching for his whereabouts. Every time the rescue team eats, they will never forget to put Xie Qiao's bowls and chopsticks on the table, waiting for the hero to return.