China News Service Nanchang, June 10 (Reporter Wang Jian) Heavy rains in the past few days have affected 764,000 people in Jiangxi, a province in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with a direct economic loss of 770 million yuan.
Beginning on June 2, Jiangxi suffered a continuous storm weather process with the longest duration, the widest impact, the largest surface rainfall and the strongest rainfall since this year. Some houses were damaged, some urban areas were severely flooded, and some road sections were caused by water accumulation. Difficult passage, part of the roads and bridges were destroyed, and crops were flooded.
According to local reports, as of 10:30 on the 10th, 764,000 people in 73 counties (cities and districts) in 10 districts and cities including Nanchang and Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province were affected by floods and floods that began on June 2 in Jiangxi, and emergency resettlement of 50,000 people There are 24,000 people in need of emergency life assistance. The area affected by crops is 44.7 thousand hectares. There are 243 houses collapsed in 108 houses. The disaster situation is still under further statistical verification.
As of 17:30 on June 9, Jiangxi Province has invested a total of 4,580 flood control forces, 321 vehicles (sets) and more than 560 life jackets.
The Jiangxi Provincial Disaster Reduction Committee and the Provincial Emergency Management Department have urgently launched a Level 4 disaster response emergency response at 8:00 on June 6. At present, Fuzhou, Pingxiang, Jiangxi, and Fenyi, Ningdu, and Yushan counties continue to maintain flood control level IV emergency response. (Finish)