China News Service, August 14 According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the No. 4 flood of this year occurred in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on August 14. Numbered floods occurred successively on the Shuhe and Yihe Rivers in the Yishui River Basin of the Huaihe River. It is expected that from the 14th to the 16th, there will be large-scale heavy rainfall in the east southwest, east northwest, north China, northeast China, Huanghuai and other places, accompanied by strong convective weather such as thunderstorms and hail, and the flood control situation is severe. After discussion and judgment, the National Defense Directorate decided to upgrade the flood control emergency response from level IV to level III at 18:00 on the 14th. Based on the early dispatch of Sichuan and Haihe working groups, three more teams were sent to Chongqing, Liaoning, and Shandong. And other key areas to assist and guide flood prevention and disaster relief work.
The National Defense Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a conference on the 14th to discuss and judge the development trend of rain and flood with the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the China Meteorological Administration. The video links to Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Chongqing, Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces. (Municipal) Anti-indicators, further dispatch and deploy a new round of heavy rainfall prevention and response in key areas. Zhou Xuewen, Secretary-General of the National Defense, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Deputy Minister of Water Resources presided over the meeting.
The meeting emphasized that in response to the new round of heavy rainfall in the near future, relevant areas should attach great importance to the prevention of indicators, closely monitor the process of heavy rainfall in the Sichuan Basin, eastern northwest, central and southern North China, Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong and other places, and make every effort to prevent the mainstream of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Minjiang and Tuojiang rivers. , Jialing River Basin floods, strengthen monitoring and early warning and hidden danger investigation, refine personnel transfer and avoidance and emergency rescue measures, and adhere to the combination of prevention and emergency response to ensure the safety of the people.
The meeting requested that all levels of prevention and control should layer the responsibility for flood prevention, implement the responsibility into the whole process, ensure that people are on duty, strictly implement various flood prevention and disaster relief measures, and earnestly put the safety of people’s lives in the first place. Really. It is necessary to strengthen monitoring, forecasting and early warning, analyze disaster development trends in time, focus on disaster forecasting and early warning, continue to do a good job of preventing disasters such as landslides and mudslides caused by heavy rainfall, strengthen rolling consultations, research and judgment, and release early warning information from village to household. It is necessary to strengthen the investigation of hidden risks, pay close attention to the weak links and hidden risk points of small and medium-sized rivers, small and medium-sized reservoirs, mountain torrent geological disasters, urban waterlogging, etc., and increase dike inspections in key areas such as dikes of over-alarm sections, over-flooded reservoirs, and mountain torrent geological hazards. Increase the frequency of inspections. It is necessary to promptly transfer the disaster-stricken people, refine the actual personnel transfer and resettlement plan, decisively transfer the personnel in the danger area at the first time, strictly implement the transfer and avoidance measures for the elderly, young, sick and disabled people, adhere to scientific rescue and precise rescue, and ensure the safety of rescuers .
Currently, the Sichuan Working Group and Haihe Working Group of the State General Defense Agency are inspecting and guiding flood control and disaster relief work on the front line. On August 13, the Sichuan working group rushed to the Heilongtan Reservoir in Meishan City, the Qianfoyan landslide site in Dongpo District, the hidden danger point of geological disasters in Suchang Village, Danling County and the relief material warehouse, and the implementation of the on-site inspection responsibility system, emergency rescue plan and The team’s material preparations guide the transfer and resettlement work of the disaster-stricken people; the Haihe working group rushed to Hebei to inspect and guide the flood prevention and flood relief work.