China News Service, Beijing, April 11 (Reporter Chen Su) The State Defense Office held a video scheduling meeting on flood control and drought relief in southern provinces on the 10th to analyze the situation and deploy measures for flood prevention, drought and typhoon prevention in southern provinces. Zhou Xuewen, General Secretary of the National Defense, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Deputy Minister of Water Resources attended the meeting and proposed work requirements.

The meeting pointed out that at present, most areas in the south have entered the flood season, and the flood prevention work has gradually entered a critical period. It is predicted that heavier floods may occur in the Yangtze River and Pearl River basins, and landing typhoons may be more intense. At the same time, it is faced with unfavorable factors such as inadequate flood control engineering system and insufficient capacity to defend against large floods. In general, the situation is not optimistic, and localities must arouse great attention and vigilance.

The meeting emphasized that all relevant provinces should implement flood control projects and flood control and drought resistance responsibilities in flood risk areas such as urban waterlogging, mountain flood disasters, and coastal storm surges with the executive head responsibility system as the core. It is necessary to organize various localities to innovate inspection methods based on the epidemic risk situation, carry out flood control inspections, list rectification accounts and responsibilities for the problems identified, ensure that the rectification is completed within a limited time, and prepare emergency flood control plans for those that are difficult to complete before the flood. We must pay close attention to revising various plans for flood control, drought and typhoon prevention, strengthen joint consultations with meteorological and water conservancy departments, and improve disaster warning and emergency response release mechanisms. It is necessary to do all the preparation work for rescue and rescue, implement a professional team for flood rescue and rescue, grasp the status of rescue forces in various industries, connect the resident troops and the rescue construction forces of central enterprises, establish a counterpart rescue and rescue mechanism, prepare the necessary materials and equipment for rescue, and optimize the method of transportation. . It is necessary to promptly report to the State General Directorate of Defense on the adjustment of the organizational system, the implementation of the responsibility system, various plans and plans, emergency rescue forces and other relevant information on flood control and drought relief, and to submit information on flood conditions, dangers, disasters, work trends, and the use of important projects in the flood season.

On the same day, the person in charge of the flood control and drought relief headquarters of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan Province (autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government) attended the meeting and spoke, emergency management Persons in charge of relevant bureaus of the Ministry attended the meeting. (Finish)