China News Agency, Beijing, July 22 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) "Overall, during the 'seven down and eight up' period, the flood control and drought relief situation this year is still relatively complicated and severe." At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Emergency Management of China held on the 21st , said Zhang Jiatuan, emergency commander of the Ministry of Emergency Management.

　　At present, it is the critical period of "seven down and eight up" national flood control, and a new round of heavy rainfall continues to affect many provinces across the country.

How China can safely handle the flood season and prevent major disasters from happening has become the focus of attention of all parties.

　　The second half of July to the first half of August is one of the important stages of the main flood season in China. It is also a period of the most concentrated rainfall, the strongest intensity and the highest probability of extreme rainstorms in northern China, referred to as "seven down and eight up".

During this period, the north will enter the main rainy season, and the typhoons in the South China Sea and the Northwest Pacific will enter an active period. Compared with the early summer, the national drought and flood situation will generally change, and disaster prevention and mitigation during the flood season will enter the most critical stage.

　　The critical period of "seven downs and eight ups" tests China's ability to prevent floods and reduce disasters, and a little carelessness can easily lead to tragedy.

Last year, the "7.20" torrential rain disaster in Zhengzhou, Henan still left people with lingering fears. The disaster caused a total of 14.786 million people in Henan Province to be affected, 398 people died and missing due to the disaster, and the direct economic loss reached 120.06 billion yuan (RMB, the same below).

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Now that the "seven down and eight up" exams are coming as scheduled, in order to prevent similar disasters from happening again, flood control work has been intensively deployed from national ministries and commissions to various provinces in the past few days.

　　Judging from the distribution of flood conditions, during the "seven down and eight up" period this year, there may be relatively large floods in the Songhua River Basin, the Huai River Basin, Yishusi River Basin, the rivers in the Shandong Peninsula, and the Dawen River, a tributary of the Yellow River. Over-alarm floods may occur in the Henan system, the Han River and Chu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, and the Lancang River in Yunnan.

　　If you want to survive the flood safely, the flood control measures must "run" before the flood.

In the past few days, the National Defense Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management have continued to organize special video conferences on flood control and drought relief, discuss with the meteorology, water conservancy, and natural resources departments to study and judge the development trend of flood and disaster situations, and dispatch and guide provinces to do a good job in preventing and responding to the current heavy rainfall process. .

　　In response to the current situation, the National Defense General Administration maintained a four-level emergency response to flood control for 9 provinces including Liaoning, Hebei, and Henan on the 19th, maintained a four-level emergency response to drought in Inner Mongolia, and launched a four-level emergency response to drought in Xinjiang.

The two working groups dispatched by the General Office of National Defense continued to assist and guide the flood control work in Liaoning and Sichuan.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources have recently allocated 468 million yuan in water conservancy disaster relief funds to support 10 provinces including Guangdong to do a good job in repairing water damage.

　　While water conservancy, meteorology, emergency and other departments are working together to do a good job in flood prevention and disaster reduction, each province is also focusing on their own key difficulties and actively preparing for floods.

　　During the "seven down and eight up" period, regional heavy rains and floods may occur in the Haihe River and Luanhe Rivers, and the flood control situation is not optimistic. Hebei Province has strengthened the daily inspection of flood control projects such as reservoirs, river embankments, and flood storage and detention areas; In case of over-alarm floods, the Hubei Provincial Department of Water Resources requires all localities to focus on the safety of reservoirs (weirs and ponds), the prevention of mountain torrent disasters and the prevention of floods in small and medium-sized rivers, to strengthen inspections and defenses; in view of the fact that the province's water conservancy projects generally store too much water, risks and hidden dangers are intertwined and superimposed. , The Shandong Provincial Prevention and Guidance Office requires all levels to do a good job in the analysis of the rain-holding capacity of large and medium-sized reservoirs in advance, scientifically arrange the pre-discharge storage, and reserve enough storage capacity for flood control...

　　Henan, which was hit by heavy rainstorms last year, is also on guard.

Henan Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters held a video dispatching meeting for flood control in the province on the evening of the 18th. Vice Governor Wu Guoding of Henan Province emphasized at the meeting that this round of heavy rainfall covers a wide range.

It is necessary to strengthen tracking, consultation, research and judgment, and initiate emergency response in a timely manner; it is necessary to adhere to the principle of life first, avoid risks, and organize people to transfer and avoid risks as soon as possible.

　　It is worth mentioning that two large-scale flood control drills were held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province on May 26 and June 18.

The drill held on June 18 was jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Henan Provincial Government. It set up 11 subjects such as emergency response to tunnels and underground spaces in residential areas, subway emergency management and control, and emergency response. More than 5,000 people participated in the exercise, aiming to pass the drill. The drill tests the city's ability to cope with flooding and inversion of urban tracks.

　　The heavy rainstorm disaster in Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 also sounded the alarm for the urban rail transit flood control and waterlogging prevention work. Once the underground space is flooded, the degree of damage is immeasurable.

Since entering the main flood season, Tianjin, Nanjing, Zhengzhou and other cities have successively held flood control drills for subways, taking precautionary measures to prevent problems before they occur.

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