Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 30. The Ministry of Water Resources issued a notice on the 30th, predicting that the "autumn rain in West China" will be obvious in the near future and in autumn. The Jialing River, Minjiang River, Tuojiang River, Hanjiang River in the Yangtze River Basin and Weihe River in the Yellow River Basin may have autumn floods.
The notification also showed that regional rainstorms and floods may occur in southern China's coastal areas, and autumn droughts may occur in central Jiangnan and eastern South China.
Flood and drought disaster prevention is facing severe challenges.
Li Guoying, deputy commander-in-chief of the State Administration of Defense and Minister of Water Resources, presided over a conference that day to analyze and judge the current and autumn flood and drought situations, and arrange key tasks for flood and drought disaster prevention.
Li Guoying requested that we must do a good job in the autumn flood defense of key river basins, conduct research and analysis on each reservoir one by one, while scientifically blocking floods and ensuring flood control safety, seize favorable opportunities at the end of the flood season to reserve water resources to protect urban and rural areas this autumn and winter and even next spring. Create conditions for water supply safety.
Li Guoying also emphasized that it is necessary to do a good job of drought prevention in the Pearl River and Hanjiang river basins in advance, and effectively carry out the storage and dispatch of the backbone reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Xijiang River, especially the Datengxia junction on the mainstream of the Xijiang River, so as to provide water resources to ensure the safety of water supply in cities such as Macau and Zhuhai.