China News Service, Taiyuan, November 2 (Reporter Li Xinsuo) The continuous heavy rainfall in early October caused nearly 180,000 people in Taiyuan, Shanxi, to be affected. Now the order of production and life in the disaster area has basically restored.
On November 2, at a press conference held by the Information Office of Taiyuan City Government, the local emergency and water affairs departments notified the post-disaster reconstruction situation.
Since October 2, Taiyuan has encountered the strongest autumn flood since there are meteorological records, causing water accumulation in low-lying blocks in some counties and districts, road subsidence, overflowing river sections, etc., especially in the Wuma River in Qingxu County where 4 executions occurred, Xiangyu There were 6 cracks in the river, flooded embankments appeared in many places, and 8 surrounding villages were flooded.
According to Gao Erhu, member of the Party Committee of Taiyuan Emergency Management Bureau and Director of the Earthquake Prevention and Mitigation Center, according to statistics, as of 17:00 on November 1, Taiyuan had a total of 178,922 people affected by the disaster, 20,082 people were urgently transferred and resettled, 18,961 houses were affected, and the area affected by crops was 33,396.63 hectares. 648.26 hectares of crops without crops, 1,495 large livestock died, and a direct economic loss of 1,522,196,000 yuan.
After continuous restoration and reconstruction, the appearance of local villages in the disaster-stricken area has been basically restored, the power supply, water supply, gas supply, heating and other infrastructures have been functionally restored.
After the disaster occurred, the Taiyuan Municipal Health Commission immediately launched an emergency response to provide professional guidance on the "two cleans and one elimination" of flood-crossing areas and centralized settlements and the harmless treatment of dead livestock and poultry caused by floods.
At present, the 12 disaster-stricken villages and centralized resettlement sites in Qingxu County have all completed multiple rounds of disinfection and disinfection.
“We carry out daily monitoring and daily reports on the health conditions of the affected population, such as fever and diarrhea. At present, there are no reports of relevant infectious cases.” said Sun Huisheng, deputy director of the Taiyuan Municipal Health Commission. In order to facilitate villagers’ medical treatment, the local health commission coordinated Organized 12 hospitals and more than 50 medical personnel from provinces and cities to carry out free consultations in the disaster area, provided free medicines, masks and disinfectants, treated more than 1,000 people, and provided preventive Chinese medicine kits for 16,000 people affected by the disaster.
Continuous heavy rainfall caused many rivers in Taiyuan to burst and overflow, and villages flooded.
In post-disaster reconstruction, the restoration of the water receding water has attracted much attention.
According to Zhao Wenping, a fourth-level investigator of Taiyuan Water Affairs Bureau, the breach has been completely blocked and more than 5,250 meters of embankment has been repaired; the accumulated water in the village has been basically drained, and the accumulated water in the cultivated land is being drained; the rural water supply of 11 disaster-stricken villages has been completely drained. Back to normal.
In addition, the Taiyuan Water Affairs Bureau actively cooperated with the Shanxi Provincial Water Resources Department and the Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission to strive for various funds to support post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.
At present, 2.6 million yuan of water conservancy relief funds in Shanxi Province have been obtained, mainly for the restoration of Wuma River and Xiangyu River; the Wuma River governance plan has been included in the 2022 small and medium-sized river governance project, and the Xiangyu River has also been reported to Shanxi Water Resources hall.
The remaining projects are organizing relevant counties and districts to prepare plans and strive to be included in the higher-level construction projects next year.
In terms of traffic damage, the disaster caused a total of 812 slopes on local rural roads, 86.4 kilometers of roadbeds, 166 kilometers of roads, and 4 bridges. The direct economic loss was about 190 million yuan due to blocking traffic.
Dong Jing, a third-level researcher of the Taiyuan Transportation Bureau, said that up to now, all 201 blocked traffic points have been rushed through, and other restoration work is being accelerated.
The disaster situation directly affected the harvest of autumn grains and the safety of rural housing.
In this regard, Guo Zhihong, deputy director of the Taiyuan Agriculture and Rural Bureau, said that through "double reduction and double grab", the local area has eliminated 91,600 mu of farmland water, accounting for 75.11% of the progress.
As of October 28, 656,300 mu of autumn grain crops in Taiyuan had been harvested, and the harvest progress was 71.34%.
In addition, the Taiyuan Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, together with housing construction and civil affairs departments, actively carried out disaster investigation, safety appraisal, information verification, etc., simplified the approval procedures for rebuilding homesteads at other sites, and accelerated the progress of reconstruction and repair of rural houses damaged by the disaster to ensure All the affected farmers moved in safely before the Spring Festival.
Up to now, the local area has completed the safety appraisal of damaged rural houses in the countryside, and has been transferred to the stage of repair and reconstruction.
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