China News Service, August 25. According to the website of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, on the 25th, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued the "Urgent Notice on the Work of Cultural and Expo Units to properly respond to typhoons and storm surges". It will land on the coast from Yangxi to Leizhou in Guangdong during the day on August 25.
Affected by this, strong wind and rain will occur in parts of southern South China, southern Yunnan and other places, and cultural relics will face great threats such as typhoons, heavy rains, and floods, and the situation will be more severe.
All cultural and museum units should investigate disaster dangers and hidden dangers in advance, and properly do a good job in follow-up protection to minimize the loss of cultural relics.
The notice requires that the administrative departments of cultural relics at all levels must resolutely overcome paralysis and luck, and make every effort to ensure the safety of personnel and cultural relics.
It is necessary to actively promote the incorporation of cultural relics disaster prevention, mitigation and relief work into the disaster prevention and mitigation systems of local governments, maintain a high level of early warning, strengthen coordination and communication with emergency management, natural resources, water conservancy, meteorology and other departments, and pay close attention to typhoon development trends, travel paths and impacts. Scope, real-time research and judgment of risks, and timely notification and reminder.
The notice proposes that all cultural and expo units should investigate disaster risks and hidden dangers in advance, close the coastal cultural and expo open units and engineering sites, etc., and transfer personnel in areas threatened by heavy rainfall and strong winds in a timely manner.
On the premise of ensuring the safety of personnel, measures should be taken according to their own actual conditions to deal with strong winds, heavy rains and floods, pay attention to closing and temporarily strengthening doors and windows, storing, fixing and protecting outdoor furnishings, strengthening construction site scaffolding and sheds, and carrying out necessary construction support. protection, shading and tree trimming.
Cultural and exposition units in coastal and low-lying areas should take necessary measures to prevent immersion, such as setting up temporary drainage pumps, water retaining gates, stacking water retaining sandbags, and cleaning drainage channels.
Power off temporarily if necessary.
The notice emphasizes that it is necessary to do a good job in emergency response to emergencies and be prepared for them. In the event of a disaster, it should be reported in a timely manner in accordance with the requirements of the "Administrative Measures for Emergency Response Work of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage", and an emergency plan should be activated quickly, and together with relevant local departments and units, rescue efforts should be made. The scattered and damaged cultural relics components shall be well preserved, and follow-up protection work shall be properly carried out to minimize the loss of cultural relics.