China News Agency, Kunming, March 30th (Du Xiaoxiao) Recently, the high-fire danger area in Yunnan Province has expanded rapidly. Within one day on the 29th, five forest fires occurred in Lijiang, Dali, Diqing and other places. One of them is still at full strength. During the fight, the situation of forest fire prevention is very serious.

Yunnan, a large province with forest and grass resources, has a forest coverage rate of 62.4%, which is an ecological security barrier in southwest China. Due to the complicated terrain and diverse climate, most regions of Yunnan have a dry rain season from December to June of the following year, and forest fire danger levels remain high. Of the 129 counties in the province, 122 are classified as high-risk areas and high-risk areas by forest fires by the state.

On the 29th, forest fires occurred in 5 places including Nanxun County and Heqing County in Dali Prefecture, Economic Development Zone of Shangri-La City, Diqing Prefecture, Hutiaoxia Town, and Yulong County of Lijiang City. As of now, the open flames in Dali's Heqing County, Nanxun County and Lijiang Yulong County, Diqing Tiger Leaping Gorge Town have all been extinguished. The fire extinguishers have been transferred to the stage of cleaning up the remaining fire and guarding the fire field. The forest fires in Shangri-La are still being extinguished. in. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 3,000 people were involved in fighting the five forest fires.

Since March, the temperature in Yunnan has risen rapidly. The average temperature in mid-March has risen by 5.4 ° C compared with mid-February. In the same period, the average precipitation in the whole province was 16.5mm, which was 25.3% lower than usual. The rainfall in most areas southwest of central Yunnan was more than 50% lower than in the same period of the normal year.

Most of the province experienced droughts in mid-March. On March 29, the temperature in many places in Yunnan exceeded 35 ° C. At present, the forest fire danger meteorological grades of Lijiang, eastern Dali, northern Lincang and eastern, Chuxiong, Kunming, northern Yuxi, southwest of Zhaotong, and northwest of Qujing have reached Grade 4.

Yunnan Provincial Emergency Management Department launched a new round of joint forest and grassland fire prevention and fire prevention work on March 25. It went deeper into key states (cities), counties (cities, districts), and conducted fire prevention work in Qingming Festival and high fire danger periods. Supervision and inspection were carried out on the situation of measures, funds, materials, etc .; the province's major fire prevention and control work centered on the Yulong Snow Mountain, Cang Mountain, Gaoligong Mountain, the frontier of the China-Myanmar border, and Kunming city Mianshan.

On March 26th, the Yunnan Province ’s finance added 45 million yuan to the original budget for forest fire prevention funding, strengthened forest fire prevention and suppression, emergency response systems and the construction of local forest fire prevention teams, improved the comprehensive prevention and control of forest fires, and protected the province ’s forests. Efforts to prevent and extinguish grasslands were carried out efficiently. (Finish)