Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 17. The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on July 17 to study and deploy flood prevention and disaster relief work. CPC Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the meeting and delivered an important speech.
Xi Jinping pointed out that since June, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the party committees and governments at all levels have taken urgent actions and strengthened measures, the National Defense General Office, various relevant departments and units have performed their duties and cooperated closely, and the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force have made surprise attacks at critical times. The role of the team, the cadres and the masses fought together, the flood prevention and relief system played an important role, the flood prevention and relief work was carried out in an orderly and vigorous manner, and positive results were achieved.
Xi Jinping emphasized that flood prevention and relief are related to the safety of people's lives and property, as well as food security, economic security, social security and national security. This year is the year of a decisive victory to build a well-off society in an all-round way and a decisive battle against poverty. It is also the year when the 13th Five-Year Plan ends. It is very important to do a good job in flood prevention and disaster relief. All relevant regions, departments, and units must always give top priority to ensuring the safety of people’s lives and property, take more effective measures, and do a good job in flood prevention and disaster relief.
Xi Jinping pointed out that at present, the national flood control has entered the "seventh and eighth up" stage, and rainfall in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River Basin is still relatively heavy. Heavy floods may occur in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River, Haihe River, Songhua River, and Huaihe River Basin. Safe flood season, strengthen organizational leadership and responsibility implementation, adhere to the combination of prevention preparation and emergency response, strengthen overall coordination and coordination, strengthen coordination and coordination, and implement detailed measures for flood prevention and disaster relief. All relevant regions should make preparations for plans, team preparations, material preparations, and flood storage and detention area operation preparations.
The meeting emphasized that the Party Central Committee attaches great importance to this year’s flood prevention and disaster relief work. On May 19, when General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the Politburo Standing Committee meeting to study related work, he asked relevant parties to attach great importance to the flood conditions in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River during this year’s flood season and to compact flood control work. Responsibility, overcoming the impact of the epidemic, seizing the restoration of water conservancy projects, strengthening material reserves, organizing emergency rescue training and exercises, and making every effort to protect the safety of people's lives and property. General Secretary Xi Jinping also made important instructions on many occasions, requiring all regions and relevant departments to adhere to the people first, life first, coordinate the epidemic prevention and flood control and flood relief work; require the party committees and governments at all levels to compact their responsibilities, be brave and take more Powerful and effective measures, spare no effort to rescue and rescue, and do our best to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.
The meeting pointed out that party committees and governments at all levels should fully implement the main responsibilities of flood prevention and disaster relief, strengthen leadership, guard the soil and do their responsibilities, and put the protection of the safety of people's lives and property first. To take advantage of the reform of disaster prevention, mitigation and relief systems, all parties concerned should strengthen overall coordination and coordination, give play to their respective professional advantages, and form a flood prevention and relief pattern in which provinces and cities, departments, military and military departments, upstream and downstream, and left and right banks work together. Responsibility must fall to the entire process of flood control and disaster relief, at all levels, to the post, to implement the responsibility system for inspection and defense of flood season projects. Leading cadres at all levels should go deep into the front line, rely on front command, and conduct on-site supervision, embody responsibility on the front line of flood prevention and disaster relief, and organize the broad masses of cadres and people to work hard together.
The meeting emphasized the need for precise early warning and strict prevention, timely and accurate rolling forecast of meteorological data such as rain and water conditions, and strengthening the forecast of secondary disasters. In particular, the level of forecasting and forecasting of local heavy rainfall, typhoons, torrents, debris flows, etc., and the release of early warning information To go from village to household to people. It is necessary to strengthen the protection of important embankments and important facilities, scientifically dispatch water conservancy projects, strengthen patrols to check for dangers, promptly guard against dangerous situations, and ensure the safety of important infrastructure. We must spare no effort in emergency rescue and disaster relief, and we must uniformly dispatch, preset in advance, quickly dispatch, and efficiently rescue all types of emergency rescue forces, and strive to minimize all types of losses. It is necessary to make overall plans for epidemic prevention and control, emergency rescue and disaster relief work, strictly implement various prevention and control measures, and avoid the rebound of immunization.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to carefully plan post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, allocate disaster relief funds in time, dispatch relief supplies, restore production and life order in the disaster area as soon as possible, promptly repair infrastructure such as water, electricity, transportation, and communications, and organize and lead the victims to resume production and rebuild their homes. It is necessary to support all types of disaster-stricken production enterprises to resume work and resume production, coordinate post-disaster recovery and reconstruction and poverty alleviation work, provide support to poor areas and disaster-stricken people, and prevent poverty from returning to poverty due to disasters.
The meeting emphasized the need to comprehensively improve disaster prevention capabilities, adhere to the combination of prevention-oriented and prevention-rescue, and incorporate major engineering construction, important infrastructure shortcomings, urban waterlogging management, strengthening disaster prevention and preparedness systems and capacity building, etc. Overall consideration in the 14th Five-Year Plan.
The meeting pointed out that party committees and governments at all levels must shoulder the political responsibility of promoting development on one side and ensuring security on the other. Grassroots party organizations and the majority of party members and cadres must give full play to the role of fighting bastions and vanguard models, take the initiative to take the lead, dare to take the lead, and rely on The masses of the people have transformed the party's political advantages, organizational advantages, and close ties with the masses into strong political advantages for flood prevention and disaster relief, so that the party flag can fly high on the front lines of flood prevention and relief.
The meeting also studied other matters.