May 13, 1998 (April 18) Tiger years, Daxinganling Aer forest fires.

1998 13, Daxinganling Aer occurrence of forest fires caused by lightning fires burned an area of ​​more than 13,000 hectares. General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Vice Premier Wen Jiabao very concerned about the work of putting out the fire, and made several instructions. Yun Bulong, Chairman of the Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Vice Chairman Fu Shou-cheng, Li Yucai, Deputy Secretary of State Forestry Administration, arrived in the scene of the fire first-line organizations to deploy fire fighting work. Forest police, forestry workers, the PLA officers and men to work together, and made a great contribution to extinguish fire. This time to participate in fire fighting personnel a total of 5480 people, 327 dispatched vehicles.
5, 22, after nine days and nights struggling swat implement artificial rainfall, combined with the use of the timing of forest areas over Heavy rain, Aer fire fire fully extinguished.