The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management have allocated 80 million yuan in advance to Shanxi and Shaanxi as central natural disaster relief funds to support flood prevention and disaster relief work

  On October 11, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management allocated 80 million yuan of central natural disaster relief funds to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces to support and help local governments in flood prevention and relief work.

  In response to the severe flooding disasters in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the National Disaster Reduction Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management recently launched a national level IV disaster relief emergency response, and dispatched working groups to Xiaoyi City, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, Jiexiu City, Jinzhong City, and Weinan City, Shaanxi Province. In prefectures and districts, Dali County, etc., inspected houses collapsed, villages flooded, and crops were damaged. They learned about the progress of emergency rescue and disaster relief, and guided and supervised the transfer and resettlement of disaster-stricken people and basic livelihood guarantees.

The National Defense Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management organize daily joint business research and judgment, analyze and judge the country’s rain and water conditions, and arrange the deployment of flood prevention and disaster relief work in a timely manner, focusing on the Yellow River, Haihe River and other river basins in autumn rain and autumn floods, and urgently calling direct-connected pumps and other central flood control materials Support Shanxi and other provinces to carry out flood prevention and disaster relief.

(CCTV reporter Tang Guorong)