China News Service, Zhengzhou, August 13 (Reporter Liu Peng) Henan Province has been hit by floods a few days ago, and some rural areas have been severely affected.
The outside world is concerned about the disaster situation of people in poverty-stricken areas and whether they will return to poverty due to the disaster.
On the 13th, Henan officials stated that they would firmly hold the bottom line to ensure that no one returned to poverty due to the disaster.
At a press conference held by the Information Office of the Henan Provincial Government on the same day, Fang Guogen, deputy director of the Rural Revitalization Bureau of the province, reported that according to Mopai statistics, this round of floods in Henan caused a total of 26 nationally designated poverty alleviation counties, 11 provincial designated poverty alleviation counties, and 2759. Over 390,000 poverty alleviation villages and over 390,000 registered poverty alleviation populations and monitored objects were affected; 5,215 poverty alleviation projects were damaged in the province, involving more than 1.13 billion yuan of funds; 139 poverty alleviation workshops were damaged, and 246 photovoltaic power stations were damaged. The capacity exceeded 45,000 kilowatts, and the rural poverty alleviation roads were damaged over 1,393 kilometers.
After suffering from this round of floods, how to ensure that the affected people will not return to poverty due to the disaster?
Fang Guogen said in response to a question from the media that after the disaster, the Henan authorities took immediate actions to take measures to suit local conditions, carry out in-depth social assistance and consumer assistance, and strengthen security measures, starting from solving the people’s difficulties in life, and ensuring that the affected people have food and clothing. No worries, there is safe and clean drinking water; if the house collapses or is severely damaged, temporary resettlement is adopted to ensure that the dangerous house cannot be occupied by people, and the people cannot live in the dangerous house.
At the same time, clarify assistance needs and implement various policy guarantees for those who are included in the monitoring targets due to disasters; for those unable to work due to disasters, actively organize them to participate in post-disaster reconstruction, epidemic prevention and control and other public welfare positions, and give appropriate measures in accordance with relevant regulations. Subsidies and stable income; for industrial projects damaged by the disaster, prioritize them, plan for restoration and reconstruction in a timely manner, and prioritize implementation; for crops that are damaged due to the disaster, and the aquaculture industry is damaged, promptly guide replanting, replanting, and replanting. Farms increase breeding, and enjoy preferential policies such as seed subsidies. At the same time, they assist in insurance claims, help production and self-rescue, and try to minimize losses.
Fang Guogen said that, on the whole, the risk of large-scale return to poverty in Henan Province is generally controllable, and it will resolutely maintain the bottom line of “preventing large-scale return to poverty”, accelerate post-disaster reconstruction, consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation, and ensure that no one returns to poverty due to the disaster.
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