Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 12 Question: Mobilization issued by flood control upgrades-Observation of current flood situation
Xinhua News Agency reporter
On the 12th, the National Defence General Administration raised the flood control level III emergency response to level II, and the Ministry of Water Resources also raised the flood and drought disaster prevention level III emergency response to level II. Just at 0:00 on the same day, at Poxing Lake’s iconic hydrological station, Xingzi Station, the lake water broke the historical extremum since the hydrological record. Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on the 11th raised the flood control emergency response to the highest level Ⅰ.
On the 12th, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on further improving flood prevention and relief work, emphasizing that party committees and governments at all levels should compact their responsibilities and be courageous. Leading cadres at all levels should go to the front line and rely on the front to command, organize the broad masses of cadres and take more effective Effective measures, earnestly carry out various tasks such as monitoring and early warning, embankment inspection, emergency treatment, and resettlement of disaster-stricken people, make every effort to rescue and rescue, and do their utmost to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.
The floods are relentless and life is paramount! At present, the flood control situation in many places in southern my country is severe, and flood control has entered a critical period. All localities insist on the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, and go all out to do all the work of flood prevention and disaster relief.
The situation of starting the highest response flood control in some areas is very serious
"It rains like splashing water, and the flood quickly flows over the embankment." Huang Guirong, a villager in Guihu Village, Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, said that he has never seen such a large amount of water in the river at his door.
On the evening of the 8th, Wanyang Weidi in Poyang County asked Gui Daowei to face a dangerous situation. By the 10th, a turbulent flood had flushed the levee out of a 120-meter-long mouth. The flood was covered with yellow mud and sand, and houses and farmland along the coast were soaked in a vast ocean.
According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Water Resources, since July 4, heavy rainfall has occurred in the Yangtze River and the Taihu Basin, and the floods above the alarm level have occurred in 212 rivers such as Jianli and its lower reaches, Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Xiushui, Fuhe, etc. Among them, 72 rivers exceeded the guaranteed water level and 19 exceeded the historical water level. Taihu Lake continues to exceed the alarm status.
"Starting the first-level emergency response means that the current flood control situation is extremely severe." Li Shiqin, director of the flood control and drought relief department of the Jiangxi Provincial Emergency Management Department, said that according to the severity and scope of the disaster, the Jiangxi province's flood control and drought relief emergency plan set a four-level emergency response , Level Ⅰ is the highest level.
Xu Weiming, secretary general of the Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, said that at present there are 2279 kilometers of super-alarms along the riverside polder line of 2545 kilometers in Jiangxi. The water levels of the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake are still rising. Poyang Lake may have a major flood. Right now, some dams have poor soil quality, are soaked in water for a long time, have weak impermeability and high defense pressure. Moreover, the water storage capacity of reservoirs in Jiangxi Province has increased significantly, the water level is generally high, and the storage capacity is weakened, which will bring challenges to the next stage of flood control.
At the same time, since entering the plum this year, there have been multiple rounds of heavy rainfall in Yangxin County, Huangshi City, Hubei Province. On the morning of the 11th, the water level of the Fuhe River in Yangxin County reached 23.70 meters, exceeding the highest historical flood level of 23.69 meters in 1998. At 8:00 on the 11th, Yangxin County raised its flood control emergency response to level Ⅰ.
The flood prevention situation in the Dongting Lake area has also entered a state of emergency. At 3:00 on the 12th, the water level of Chenglingji Station, the iconic hydrological station of Dongting Lake in Yueyang, Hunan, rose to 34.56 meters, exceeded the guaranteed water level by 0.01 meters, and exceeded the warning water level by 2.06 meters, and still showed an upward trend. As the water level continues to rise, the three cities of Dongting Lake District, Yueyang, Yiyang, and Changde, have launched flood response emergency response level II.
Life is paramount, rescue and disaster relief are powerful and orderly
Flood situation is an order, and flood prevention is a responsibility. On a flood prevention embankment everywhere, a battle without smoke is starting.
"Okay, the culvert is blocked!" 50-year-old Zhang Kuiyang, deputy secretary of the party branch of Shakou Village, Shishou City, Hubei Province, finally climbed ashore and took a long breath. The water on his body kept dropping.
Since entering Meimei, the city of Shishou on the Yangtze River has continued heavy rainfall and the water level has risen rapidly, and it will endanger the highways and farm villages on the side of the nearby rivers. In order to avoid the continuous influx of large water through the culvert of the highway drainage channel into the farmland and village on the other side, the local quickly organized personnel to emergency block the drainage channel culvert of the highway.
At a critical moment, Zhang Kuiyang decisively jumped into the rapid drainage channel, followed by other villagers. They threw down their raincoats, tried to locate the culvert in the water step by step, then dived into the water to block the culvert with wooden boards, and then fixed it with earth bags, pressed tape to waterproof it, and built walls... After more than two hours of continuous struggle, they finally blocked the hidden danger .
"In the face of difficulties, party members and cadres must rush ahead, and the masses will be convinced and quickly form cohesion." Zhang Kuiyang said.
The reporter saw on the Changjiangwei embankment near Poyang County that the river water was gradually approaching the crest of the dam. On the dam, many engineering vehicles shuttled back and forth to transport earthwork and sand and gravel, and the cadres and the masses braved the rain barrier to build woven bags filled with earthwork, and heightened and strengthened the dam. More than 200 armed police fighters from the Jiangxi Armed Police Mobility Detachment built a 1.5-meter-high and 1500-meter-long "dragon" along the embankment to intercept the flood.
At the same time, the resettlement work of the affected people is also proceeding in an orderly manner. On the morning of the 9th, more than 500 villagers in Guihu Village were urgently transferred to a primary school in the county town for centralized resettlement. In order to allow villagers to drink hot water, the staff also temporarily built a boiled water room.
Lan Qiongfei, a member of the Party Committee and Organizing Committee of Poyang Town, is responsible for resettlement of the villagers' clothing, food and shelter. She mobilizes volunteers to deliver the lunch box to the villagers. "We will not let a villager be displaced." She said.
Face up to the challenge and do our best to ensure the safety of people's lives and property
At present, my country's north and south have entered the main flood season. Wang Zhangli, deputy director of the Department of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that July and August are critical periods for our country's national defense floods.
According to the forecast of the Meteorological and Hydrological Department, there are rainy areas in the north and south of midsummer, and some rivers may have large regional floods. The typhoon may also have an impact on the southeast region and the south China coast.
In recent days, some river sites have exceeded the flood level in 1998. Sun Chunpeng, director of the Hydrological Information Forecasting Center of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that we have built a relatively complete water conservancy and flood control engineering system. Even if a flood like 1998 occurred, we are able to cope with it and provide a powerful water security guarantee for the safety of people’s lives and property and the national economic and social development. .
"In the face of severe flood tests, we must resolutely implement the concept of people first and life first in all aspects of flood control and flood relief work, further compact responsibilities, refine measures, keep the bottom line, and put the safety of people's lives first. Go to the ground." said Zhang Jiatuan, the emergency commander of the emergency management department.
After the nine holes of Xin'anjiang Reservoir in Zhejiang Province were fully discharged, the water level of the reservoir has gradually declined recently, and the stations in the Qiantang River Basin have dropped below the warning level. The Zhejiang Provincial Defense Index has lowered the emergency response level.
"Reducing the rain and reducing the response does not mean that we can relax our vigilance." The relevant person in charge of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Water Resources said that there is still a risk of landslides and landslides along the embankment of the Jiande section of the Xin'an River. It is necessary to strictly guard against secondary secondary events caused by local heavy rainfall. disaster.
The person in charge said that 23 villages and towns in Chun'an County were severely affected by the disaster, and grassroots cadres and the masses are hurrying to save themselves. When the water level drops by one centimeter, the restoration and elimination work will follow up by one centimeter, and continue to improve the drainage measures of cities, villages, farmland and fish ponds, and pay close attention to the restoration of agricultural production after the disaster. (Reporters Hu Lu, Gao Jing, Liu Xiacun, Fan Fan, Hou Wenkun, Zhou Nan, Huang Xiao)