China News Agency, Beijing, August 14 (Reporter Chen Su) Recently, extremely heavy rainfall occurred locally in China, and severe flash floods occurred in Sichuan, Gansu and other places, causing casualties.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management of China on the 14th that the official organization continued to organize consultations and dispatches, requiring resolute measures to prevent casualties.
The Ministry of Emergency Management pointed out that recently, local heavy rainfall has caused flash floods to cause rapid disasters and great harm. Serious flash floods have caused casualties in Sichuan, Gansu and other places. Excessive floods and historical floods have occurred, the high temperature and drought in the Yangtze River Basin are still developing, and the national flood control and drought relief situation is still complicated and severe.
On the 13th and 14th, the Office of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (National Headquarters for Flood Control and Drought Relief) and the Emergency Management Department successively organized special video conferences on flood control and drought relief, emphasizing the need to further find and fill loopholes in flood control work, and take firm measures to effectively prevent people from flooding. Casualties occurred again.
The General Office of National Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Management require that the current flood control and drought relief work should focus on the key points: First, pay attention to the transfer of personnel to avoid danger. At the peak of summer tourism, we must focus on monitoring, forecasting and early warning, especially for hills. The construction personnel and tourists in the district shall urge the relevant departments to effectively implement their safety responsibilities, resolutely shut down those that should be shut down, and resolutely evacuate those that should be evacuated, and resolutely avoid mass deaths and injuries caused by mountain torrent disasters and small and medium-sized river floods; the second is to closely monitor mountain torrents, For disaster risks such as debris flows, implement the "calling response" mechanism for early warning of disasters, urge the people responsible for insurance coverage to sink to the front line, organize people to transfer and avoid risks, and take resolute and decisive measures such as force presetting, closing scenic spots, and traffic control to ensure the safety of people's lives. The third is to continue to do a good job in the response to snowmelt floods in the northwest. In view of the characteristics of snowmelt floods in Xinjiang, Qinghai and other places, it reminds local people, foreign tourists and construction personnel to avoid danger in time, especially for the high water level and long duration of the Tarim River. The fourth is to continue to do a good job in patrolling and defending the super-alarm section of the Raoyang River and rushing out waterlogging, and coordinating the work of killing and epidemic prevention and the safety appraisal of houses in the submerged area. , to ensure the safety and health of the people.
At the same time, continue to do a good job in drought relief work, take emergency measures such as pulling and diverting water to ensure the safety of drinking water for the people.
On the 14th, the General Office of National Defense sent an expert group to Xinjiang to assist and guide the flood control and relief work of the Tarim River. Two working groups were dispatched to continue to assist in the rescue and rescue of mountain torrent disasters in Shanxi and Sichuan, and one working group continued to guide and coordinate drought relief and disaster reduction work in Jiangxi. .
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