China News Service, Zhengzhou, August 7 (Reporter Liu Peng) The Henan Provincial Government Information Office reported on the 7th that the extreme heavy rainfall recently encountered in the province caused a total of 475 civil air defense projects in the province to be damaged.

In the next step, the province will improve and upgrade the function of the "Emergency and Emergency Conversion" of the civil air defense evacuation refuge base, so that it can be used as a temporary place for people to temporarily settle in the event of sudden natural disasters.

  Civil air defense projects refer to underground protective buildings built separately to protect personnel and material shelter, civil air defense command, and medical rescue during wartime, as well as basements that can be used for air defense in wartime combined with ground buildings.

  At the press conference that day, Gu Wenfeng, deputy director of the Henan Provincial Civil Air Defense Office, reported that since Henan Province suffered extremely heavy rainfall, a total of 475 civil air defense projects (including various venues, venues, and facilities) have been damaged, causing water leakage, irrigation or Equipment and facilities were damaged, and some engineering protection functions were damaged.

  He said that after the disaster, Henan Province is recovering its functions as soon as possible while minimizing damage to the civil air defense projects.

Up to now, the disaster situation of the province's civil defense projects has been effectively controlled, and no secondary disasters have been caused. The minor damage projects have been treated, and the restoration and reconstruction implementation plans for a few severely damaged projects are being formulated one by one.

  In the meantime, Henan Province formulated a post-disaster recovery and reconstruction plan and supporting policies in the civil air defense field of the province. For air defense basements built in conjunction with civil buildings, the civil air defense department will cooperate with relevant departments to do post-disaster recovery, reconstruction and relief work.

At the same time, relying on military scientific research institutes, civil air defense professional technical units and civil air defense experts, provide technical services for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction and the resumption of work and production of civil air defense enterprises.

  As a civil air defense project for underground protective buildings, how will Henan Province be constructed and upgraded in the next step?

Gu Wenfeng said that Henan will upgrade and reinforce the civil air defense projects (sites, facilities) invested by the government, and install waterproof baffles and other facilities at the entrances and exits of the underground civil air defense projects in the province, ventilation holes, etc., to enhance the protection against natural rainstorms and waterlogging. Disaster infringement, to prevent the damage of the protective function of the civil air defense works.

  Gu Wenfeng also stated that Henan will also improve and upgrade the function of “Emergency and Emergency Conversion” of civil air defense evacuation shelters. In response to new requirements for flood prevention and epidemic prevention, it will study and formulate standards for “Emergency and Emergency Conversion” of civil air defense evacuation shelters. The construction of civil air defense evacuation refuge bases has improved the construction standards so that it can integrate emergency evacuation of people from major natural disasters such as disaster prevention and epidemic prevention with personnel placement. In case of sudden natural disasters, civil air evacuation refuge bases can be used as temporary places for people to settle down.

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