China News Agency, Nanchang, July 19th (Wu Pengquan) The floods in Jiangxi provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have worsened. As of 16:00 on the 19th, the flood disaster has caused 6.999,000 people in the province to be affected, with a direct economic loss of 20.22 billion yuan.
Since July, heavy rainfall has continued to hit Jiangxi, and many rivers and Poyang Lake in Jiangxi have successively suffered numbered floods and super-warning floods. The water levels at multiple sites have even exceeded guarantees, exceeded 1998, and exceeded history.
The latest statistics show that as of 16:00 on the 19th, the flood disaster started on July 6 has caused 6.99 million people to be affected in Jiangxi, emergency transfer and resettlement of 699,000 people, 288,000 people in need of emergency life assistance, 659.7 thousand hectares of crops affected area, There were 937 households and 1,847 collapsed houses, with a direct economic loss of 20.22 billion yuan.
Wu Jibo, deputy head of the disaster assessment and relief team of the Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and director of the Disaster Relief and Material Security Division of the Jiangxi Provincial Emergency Management Office, revealed on the 19th that at present, the relief work in Jiangxi has been transferred from emergency disaster relief to post-disaster relief and recovery and reconstruction. The province should take measures to help the people in need and prevent disasters caused by disasters and return to poverty.
Wu Jibo further introduced that Jiangxi urged all localities to release all kinds of disaster relief funds to the affected people in a timely manner, and asked all localities to include those who fell down or suffered serious damage to the homes or were submerged and flooded in the next transitional period of life assistance. "At the same time, local governments are required to provide timely and helpful assistance to the disaster-stricken people whose crops have been inundated and whose crops have suffered major crop losses and family assets have suffered great losses, paying particular attention to the needs and difficulties of the elderly, children, sick people and disabled people affected by the disaster, and specifying specific support personnel. , Timely tracking and coordination to resolve." (End)