China News Service, July 23. According to the WeChat official account of the Ministry of Emergency Management, from 20:00 on July 21 to 15:00 on 22nd, the northern central part of Xinxiang City, Henan Province suffered heavy rains and heavy rains.
Zhou Xuewen, the Secretary-General of the State General Defense, the Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and the Deputy Minister of Water Resources, led a National General Defense Working Group composed of emergency, water conservancy, housing and construction, and health and health commissions to go to Xinxiang on the 22nd to assist and guide the flood prevention and disaster relief work.
Affected by heavy rainfall, many rivers in Xinxiang City were overprotected that day, and Qiandaotian Village and Houdaotian Village in Liangxiangpo Flood Storage and Detention Area in Weihui City were besieged by floods.
After the working group rushed to the scene, it coordinated with the main responsible comrades of the Henan Provincial Government to organize rescue of trapped villagers, urgently allocated 40 assault boats from the Zhengzhou warehouse of the central flood control and drought relief material reserve, and coordinated with the Natural Disaster Engineering Emergency Rescue Center of the Emergency Management Department (China Security Yes) 2 sets of powered pontoon bridges come to support.
On the same day, the above-mentioned forces arrived at the rescue site.
The working group also inspected the flooding of Xinxiang's high-speed railway station, urban waterlogging, and Weihe River flooding.
In addition, the disaster relief team of the working group went to the resettlement point of Epo Wu school in Dengfeng City and the resettlement point of the developed technical school in Tangzhuang Town on the 22nd to check the collapsed houses and infrastructure damage, the transfer of personnel and the basic living security of the affected people on the spot.
The working group requested that the relevant localities should uphold the people's supremacy and life first, and organize rescue and rescue efforts to ensure the safety of the victims and rescuers; urgently rush to drain waterlogging, especially the accumulation of water in the urban underground space; and speed up the solution to the power, communication, and For traffic interruption, restore normal production and living order as soon as possible; do a good job in resettlement of the transferred masses, ensure that no one is left, and do a good job in personnel management to prevent early unauthorized return from causing safety problems; speed up the disaster investigation and statistical reporting, and approve the transfer of resettlement masses The quantity, damaged houses, and infrastructure damage; it is necessary to speed up the understanding of the needs of disaster relief materials in various disaster-stricken areas, timely allocate and distribute materials, and effectively ensure the basic livelihood of the affected people.
Screenshot of the WeChat Official Account of the Emergency Management Department