Jiangxi and other places to raise emergency response level Anhui Yangtze River main stream and tributaries along the river exceed warning levels

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 8. Affected by heavy rains over the past few days, the main stream of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province and tributaries and lakes along the rivers such as Shuiyangjiang and Chaohu exceeded the warning level, and some exceeded the guaranteed level. In addition, in view of the flood and waterlogging disasters and the development trend of disasters, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places have raised the level of disaster relief emergency response from level IV to level III.

  The reporter learned from the Anhui Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters that at 15:00 on the 8th, the water level of the Yangtze River Datong Station was 15.04 meters and the super-alarm water level was 0.64 meters; the water level of the Chaohu Zhongmiao Station was 10.76 meters and the super-alarm water level was 0.26 meters; the water level of the Shuiyangjiang Xinhezhuang Station was 13.54 meters. Meters, exceeding the guaranteed water level of 0.54 meters. The emergency response level of disaster relief in Anhui Province has been upgraded from level IV to level III on the 7th, and the cumulative number of disaster-stricken people in the province has exceeded one million.

  At 16:00 on the 8th, the Jiangxi Provincial Disaster Reduction Committee and the Provincial Emergency Management Department raised the emergency response to Ⅲ. According to the monitoring of the meteorological and hydrological departments, from 8:00 on the 6th to 8:00 on the 8th, a total of 1575 stations in 41 counties in Jiangxi had rainfall of more than 100 mm. There are 23 river super-alarm stations in the province, the super-alarm water level of Zhangshukeng, Fuliang Town, Fuliang County, Jingdezhen City is 5.96 meters, and the super-alarm water level of Dufengkeng, Xinfeng Street, Changjiang District, Jingdezhen City is 4.54 meters.

  From 9 o'clock on the 8th, Yueyang, Hunan Province, launched the urban flood control level I response. On the afternoon of the 8th, on the fifth floor of the office building of the Water Resources Bureau of Yueyang City, Deputy Director Liu Guhua once again mobilized and deployed the flood prevention work. "Yueyang's flood control situation is severe and complex. Regional and heavy rainfall in cities and mountain areas occurs from time to time. The flood control embankment of the Waijiang Waihe River has exceeded the warning level and will continue to rise." Liu Guhua said.

  According to statistics from the Meteorological and Hydrological Department, from June 28, a strong rainfall process occurred in the north of central Hunan, mainly concentrated in Zhangjiajie, Changde, Yueyang, and Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Especially from the 7th to the 8th, the 24-hour maximum point rainfall (261.4 mm) and the 6-hour maximum point rainfall (167.0 mm) in the urban area of ​​Yueyang City both exceeded the highest value since Yueyang City had a meteorological record in 1952.

  Since the 7th, the Zhejiang Provincial Defense Index has continued video dispatching in Chun'an, Jiande, Tonglu, Fuyang, Xiaoshan and other places, and has made every effort to do a good job in the transfer of personnel and emergency supplies in the areas along the route. The Zhejiang Provincial Flood Control and Drought Control Headquarters issued a notice on the 8th. Zhejiang paid close attention to the flood discharge of the Xin'anjiang Reservoir and the basin-based floods. As of 7:00 on the 8th, 43,885 people have been transferred to various places. (Reporters Cheng Shihua, Wu Zhonghao, Zhou Nan, Fang Lie, Ma Jian, Shi Weiyan, Cai Xiaoxiao, Wang Xinyi, Zhang Ge)