Li and Luo Dezhong, who were most likely killed in the landslide accident, and their seven children rushed back after hearing the news. Daughter Li Lixia said that when transplanting rice in 2009, her mother told her on the phone that the opposite mountain cracked and a hill moved as a whole. Li Lixia told her mother that this matter should be reported to the superior. "My mother said on the phone that she didn't know who to look for to reflect the problem." Li Lixia and Li Qiaoyan also said that at that time, some villagers jointly reported the matter to the relevant departments, and they heard that leaders had come to inspect it, but there was no result until the landslide.

Wang, deputy secretary of the town party Committee and mayor who directed the rescue at the scene, did not express his position on the situation of mountain cracking in 2009, saying that "please ask the information office for an interview".