China News Service, August 6th. According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, it is forecasted from August 6th to 8th that there will be heavy rain in the eastern part of Northwest China, southern North China, Huanghuai, northern Jianghuai, northern Jianghan and Sichuan Basin. There was heavy rain in the area. The National Defense Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a conference and dispatch meeting on the 6th, requesting local defense agencies to cooperate with meteorological and water conservancy departments to strengthen accurate forecasting and early warning, encrypting the forecast frequency, especially strengthening nowcasting, and effectively transferring personnel to avoid danger.
Data map: rescue personnel conduct special flood control drills. Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Hengwei
The National Defense Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a conference on the 6th to discuss and judge the development trend of rain and flood conditions with the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the China Meteorological Administration. The video links Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and other local defense indicators , Study and deploy heavy rainfall prevention and response work in key areas. Zhou Xuewen, Secretary-General of the National Defense, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Deputy Minister of Water Resources presided over the meeting.
The meeting emphasized that local defense officials should closely monitor the process of heavy rainfall, based on preventing floods, fighting floods, rushing for major dangers, and relieving major disasters, focusing on key links and weak locations, and holding the responsibility system as a bull nose, and further compacting the grassroots front line. Responsibility, to ensure that the people in charge of the county, township and county front-line administrative personnel and project guarantees are in place, and take care of the prevention of floods in small and medium-sized rivers, mountain torrents, geological disasters, and urban waterlogging. It is necessary to work with the meteorological and water conservancy departments to strengthen accurate forecast and early warning, increase the frequency of forecasts, especially strengthen nowcasting, and effectively do a good job in the transfer of personnel to avoid danger. We must do a good job in flood prevention and preparation work for emergency rescue teams to ensure unified dispatch, rapid dispatch, and effective rescue, so that the emergency rescue team can rush to the rescue early. It is necessary to strengthen the reserves of flood prevention and rescue materials and equipment, and all levels of prevention and control should report to the local government in a timely manner, and prepare sufficient rescue and rescue materials and equipment in advance to ensure the needs of rescue and rescue and ensure the safety of the people.
At present, the State General Prevention Working Group is still on the front line to inspect and guide the flood prevention and flood preparation work. The Hebei Working Group inspected the Fuyang River Aixinzhuang Junction in Ningjin County, Beixiaoguo Village Nangou-South-North Water Transfer Left Bank Drainage and Flood Discharge Project; Shanxi, Shaanxi The working group went to Yan'an and other places to inspect the operation of urban flood control projects, inspections of silt dams, village-level flood control systems at the grassroots level, and the management of mountain torrents.
As of August 5, since the flood season, the national fire and rescue teams have participated in various flood rescues of 13,514, dispatched more than 154,000 commanders and fighters, 21,150 vehicles, and 13,274 boats, rescued 38,614 trapped people in distress, and evacuated them. More than 109,000 people, rescued and protected property worth more than 1.55 billion yuan.