China News Service, Nanning, December 29 (Reporter Lin Hao) Huang Zhonglian, deputy director of the Emergency Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, introduced on the 29th that Guangxi has experienced floods, hail, typhoons, droughts, mountain collapses, earthquakes and other natural disasters this year. The number of people in need of assistance in this winter and spring will reach 983,600.

Recently, Guangxi Finance has issued more than 77.49 million yuan in disaster relief funds from the central and autonomous regions, which will be earmarked for winter and spring relief work.

  On the same day, the Guangxi Emergency Department and the Guangxi Grain and Material Reserve Bureau jointly held a winter and spring relief material distribution ceremony. From the relief materials reserved at the level of Guangxi Autonomous Region, 31,300 pieces of winter and spring relief materials (suits, beds) were allocated for various places. , With a total value of 3.15 million yuan.

The picture shows the staff transporting relief supplies, photo by Lin Hao

  Huang Zhonglian stated at the departure ceremony that according to the forecast of the meteorological department, there is a high probability of phased low temperature and extreme low temperature in some areas of Guangxi, especially the alpine mountainous area this winter. After the winter and spring funds and materials, the distribution will be organized immediately to ensure that the winter and spring relief funds and materials will be distributed to the people in need before the Spring Festival.

  It is reported that in the near future, the Ministry of Emergency Management has made special deployments for the winter and spring relief work from 2021-2022.

In order to properly solve the living difficulties of people in disaster-affected areas during the winter and spring, such as food rations, clothing and heating, in late September, the Guangxi Emergency Management Department and the Department of Finance jointly issued the "Notice on Organizing and Carrying out the Winter and Spring Relief Work for the Disaster-affected People in the Region in 2021-2022 ", to make arrangements for the winter and spring relief work of the whole district.

The picture shows the staff carrying relief supplies Photo by Lin Hao

  Guangxi requires all levels and departments to give priority to the assistance of special groups such as households who have collapsed and rebuilt their houses, those who have returned to poverty due to disasters, and those who have suffered subsistence allowances, scattered support for extremely needy people, scattered orphans, left-behind elderly, left-behind children, the disabled, and preferential care recipients, etc. To ensure that "no one household is missed, no one person is left", and to ensure the warmth of the people affected by the disaster during the winter and the festival.

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