China News Service Nanchang, July 14 (Wu Pengquan) According to the Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on the 14th, the flood disaster has caused 6.77 million people in the province to be affected, and the province has invested a total of 1.099 million people in flood relief.
Since July, Jiangxi, a province in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, has been hit by continuous heavy rainfall. The water level of the river has risen rapidly. Many rivers and Poyang Lake in the territory have repeatedly had numbered floods and over-warning floods. The water levels at multiple sites have even exceeded guarantees, exceeded 1998, exceeded history.
The Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters reported that there were 25 super vigilance stations in the province from 16:00 on the 13th to 8:00 on the 14th. At 8 o'clock on the 14th, the water level of the iconic hydrological station of Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, was 22.45 meters, exceeding the alert level of 3.45 meters; the water level of Poyang Lake and Hukou Station was 22.32 meters, exceeding the alert level of 2.82 meters; the water level of Jiujiang Station on the Yangtze River was 22.67 meters, and the excess alert level was 2.67 Meter.
On July 13, the officers and men of a certain brigade of the Rocket Army "hand in hand" with the local people to urgently deal with the dangerous situation of the Xihedonglian polder in Poyang County. Photo by Liu Lixin
According to reports from various places, as of 21:00 on the 13th, the floods and floods that started on July 6 have caused 6.77 million people in Jiangxi to suffer disasters, emergency transfer and resettlement of 589,000 people, emergency life assistance of 196,000 people, and direct economic losses of 11.17 billion yuan.
On the 13th, the length of the Yangtze River Mainstream, Poyang Lake District and other polder dikes exceeded 2475.21 kilometers. On the same day, Jiangxi invested 182,700 people in flood fighting and emergency rescue, including 156,600 people, 20,200 cadres, 8,347 people in the military region of Jiangxi Province, 1922 people in the armed police, 1,326 people in fire fighting, 426 people in the Second Bureau of Anneng, and 1,799 sets of mechanical equipment. The earthwork is 127 thousand cubic meters.
According to statistics, Jiangxi Province has invested a total of 1.099 million people in flood fighting and rescue work, 6592 sets of mechanical equipment, and 479,600 cubic meters of earth and stone.
It is worth mentioning that the Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters has upgraded the flood control level II emergency response to level I at 10 o'clock on the 11th. (Finish)