China News Service Client, Beijing, July 17 (Reporter Zhang Ni) 3000 tons of tea have been soaked, the warehouse has been flooded, and the fish pond has been destroyed... Since the flood, some areas in the south have suffered from floods. In order to minimize the loss of the people and restore production and life as soon as possible, a series of bailout measures have been introduced from the central government to local governments to hear the "flood". At the same time, local people and businesses are also actively launching self-help.
A large area of farmland in Songxi Town, Wuning County, Jiangxi Province has been flooded. Plastic greenhouses have been submerged by muddy floods. Rice, vegetables and other crops have not been seen in the flood. Photograph by Jiang Dexian
Rain "wheel war" continues, the impact of flood disaster?
"The dryer is on. Let's bake a little bit here..."
Not long ago, the video on the scene of the flood in She County, Anhui was troubling-the flood in 50 years caused 3,000 tons of tea from a tea company in the county to be soaked, and the person in charge choked when he called. Many netizens shouted: It's too difficult!
What happened to the tea companies in She County is just a microcosm of the flood. In Shexian Economic Development Zone alone, 207 enterprises have been flooded with machinery, equipment and inventory.
Looking at the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, since the flood season in June, heavy rainfall has entered the "wheel war". The China Meteorological Administration introduced on the 15th that since June, the rainfall in the Yangtze River Basin has been 410.4 millimeters, which is 48.3% more than that in the same period of the previous year, the highest in the same period in history since 1961.
The floods have a huge impact on the production and lives of local people. Farmland was flooded, fish ponds were destroyed, and warehouses were blistered... Farmers and merchants in the affected areas faced huge losses.
According to Zheng Guoguang, Secretary General of the National Disaster Reduction Committee and Deputy Minister of Emergency Management, as of 7 a.m. on July 13, the flood disaster has caused 38.73 million disasters in 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country.
During the flood, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui and other provinces suffered severely. In Hubei alone, as of July 14, the province’s crop-affected area has reached 20.565 million mu.
Data from the Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters show that as of 16:00 on July 15th, the flood disasters that began on July 6th included 10 districts and municipalities in Nanchang, Jingdezhen, Jiujiang, Shangrao, and 99 counties in Ganjiang New District ( 6.434 million people were affected by cities and districts, including functional areas, and the affected area of crops was 584.7 thousand hectares.
The picture shows Hukou County, Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Ten thousand people built a dike next to the 13.5 km dry embankment along the river. Photo by Li Xuehua
The central government continuously allocated funds for disaster relief
Since the floods in the south, the central government has allocated disaster relief funds to the affected provinces many times.
According to the data of the Ministry of Emergency Management, since the flood season, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Finance have allocated a total of 1.755 billion yuan in central subsidy funds. In conjunction with the State Food and Material Reserve Bureau, a total of 93,000 central disaster relief materials have been allocated to support flood relief in affected areas. Rescue and disaster relief work.
Regarding the disaster relief fund appropriation mechanism, this month, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management also issued the “Interim Measures for the Administration of Central Disaster Relief Funds”. The "Measures" propose that the Ministry of Finance, together with the Emergency Management Department, establish a rapid disaster relief fund allocation mechanism, which can pre-allocate part of the disaster relief funds according to the disaster situation and liquidate them later. This will greatly improve the effectiveness of disaster relief funds.
In order to ensure transportation, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport have recently allocated a special subsidy of 1.29 for highway disaster repairs and repairs to Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other 10 provinces (autonomous regions and cities) in accordance with relevant regulations. 100 million yuan to support the work of rushing through and securing roads in various places.
In addition, on the 14th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched the second-level emergency response to major natural disasters in agriculture, and also made specific arrangements for agricultural flood prevention and relief.
According to the arrangement, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs sent flood relief experts working groups to five provinces including Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan to conduct in-depth investigations in disaster-stricken areas to understand the disaster situation and assess the impact of the disaster. Recovery technical solution.
In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has also clearly allocated funds for agricultural production disaster relief. According to the needs of the disaster area, timely adjust, transport and transport the seeds for disaster relief, and support the disaster area to resume production as soon as possible.
For industries most directly affected by floods and floods, this series of specific measures is crucial.
Data Map: Disaster-affected farmland in Tonglu, Zhejiang Province. Photo courtesy of Tonglu Agriculture and Rural Bureau
Special affairs! Insurance company opens green claims channel
Sudden floods have caused huge losses to many businesses and merchants. Insurance plays an important role in the post-compensation of natural disasters. After the disaster, the local banking and insurance supervision departments also quickly took corresponding measures.
For example, in Hubei, in the face of disasters caused by heavy rainfall, Hubei Banking Insurance Regulatory Bureau issued emergency notices to insurance companies as soon as possible, requiring the province’s insurance industry to strictly implement the system of timely reporting of major disaster events and 24-hour emergency duty. Open up a high-speed channel for investigation and rescue, and a green channel for rapid claims settlement.
At the same time, the Hubei Banking Insurance Regulatory Bureau also required insurance companies to handle special cases of the accident involving compensation, speed up the processing of cases, ensure that insurance insurers involved in people's livelihood get insurance compensation as soon as possible, restore production and life, and ease the pressure of local governments to deal with disaster accidents. .
According to incomplete statistics, as of July 6, Hubei's insurance industry received a total of 22,700 reports of heavy rain and flood disasters, with an estimated loss of 402 million yuan, involving car insurance, agricultural insurance, rural housing insurance, corporate property insurance, construction Industrial insurance, etc.
In Jiangsu, as early as May, the Jiangsu Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau had already made a good deployment.
According to the requirements, each property and casualty insurance company shall implement the main responsibility of the organization and establish a working group for the insurance service during the flood season. In addition, after the natural disasters in the flood season, we must first check the customer's risk situation, rationally allocate manpower and material resources, simplify the claims process and procedures, and actively and steadily complete the insurance claims work. For major disasters, an information daily reporting mechanism should be established.
At present, agricultural insurance underwriters have generally launched emergency plans, and dispatched claims to reach affected areas to assist farmers in making claims. Some insurance companies have also opened green claims channels.
For example, some subsidiaries of Ping An of China have launched emergency plans for major natural disasters, opened a 7*24-hour claims service hotline and green claims channel, and launched special case pre-claim services.
Huangshan City Fire Rescue Detachment continued to carry out dredging and drainage operations in Shexian Economic Development Zone. Photo courtesy of Huangshan Fire
Grab the early rice crops and resume production of the company... to minimize losses
At the local level, some local governments have organized people to actively carry out post-disaster self-help.
For example, in Jiangxi, the water level of Poyang Lake continued to exceed the warning due to the continuous heavy rainfall, and the flood control situation was severe. Yugan County, a large grain-producing county located on the banks of Poyang Lake, has begun to organize farmers to grab early rice and strive to minimize losses.
In Yi County, Anhui, the water levels of many local rivers have skyrocketed, and farmland has been generally affected. In order to reduce losses, the county immediately organized agricultural technicians to visit the disaster-hit areas to check on-site crops, animal husbandry, farmland water conservancy facilities and other disasters, and targeted local crop growth nodes, soil moisture, animal disease prevention, Post-disaster facility restoration, etc., classified guidance and household-based policies to help farmers in an orderly way to promote post-disaster reconstruction and safe re-production related work.
In addition, the county has also drafted "Technical Measures for Rice Field Management after the Rainstorm" and other channels and methods to remind farmers and various new business entities to attach great importance to it through WeChat groups, the county agricultural and water bureau government open service platform, and telephone message reminders. The impact of the rainstorm and flood on agricultural production, and do a good job in the prevention and response of rainstorm and flood weather, and grasp the implementation of preventive technical measures.
In She County, Anhui, according to preliminary statistics, the direct economic loss of She County Development Zone was as high as 2.16 billion yuan. In the face of the flood disaster that happened once in 50 years, the local government and the masses have organized production to save themselves and strive to reduce losses.
It is understood that the local government has begun to resume production, and strives to resume production of 60% of enterprises within 1 month and all enterprises within 2 months. (Finish)