China News Agency, Beijing, January 21. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management: A few days ago, the executive meeting of the State Council heard a report on the investigation of the "7.20" heavy rain disaster in Zhengzhou, Henan, and reviewed and approved the "7.20" extraordinarily large disaster in Zhengzhou, Henan. Rainstorm disaster investigation report.
The investigation team of the State Council determined that the "7.20" heavy rainstorm disaster in Zhengzhou, Henan was a particularly major natural disaster that caused serious urban waterlogging, river floods, mountain torrents and landslides due to extreme rainstorms, resulting in heavy casualties and property losses. ; Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and relevant districts, counties (cities), departments and units have poor awareness of risks, lack of understanding and preparation for this catastrophic disaster, poor prevention organization, improper emergency response, and dereliction of duty, especially when subways and tunnels occur. Waiting for casualties that shouldn't have happened.
The principals of party committees and governments in Zhengzhou City and relevant districts and counties (cities) shall have leadership responsibility for this, and other relevant persons in charge and persons in charge of relevant departments and units shall have leadership or direct responsibility.
From July 17th to 23rd, 2021, Henan Province experienced a rare heavy rainstorm and severe floods. Especially on July 20th, Zhengzhou City suffered heavy casualties and property losses.
The disaster caused a total of 14.786 million people in 150 counties (cities, districts) in Henan Province, and 398 people died or missing due to the disaster, including 380 people in Zhengzhou, accounting for 95.5% of the whole province; the direct economic loss was 120.06 billion yuan, of which 40.9 billion yuan in Zhengzhou , accounting for 34.1% of the province.
After the disaster, the Party Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to it. General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions, requesting to always put the safety of people's lives and property in the first place, pay close attention to various flood control and disaster relief measures, and dispatch the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force quickly. Investing in emergency rescue and disaster relief has injected a strong impetus and provided a strong guarantee for the flood control and disaster relief work.
Premier Li Keqiang has given important instructions on many occasions, presided over the deployment of special meetings, and went to the disaster-stricken areas in Henan to inspect the disaster-stricken areas.
The National Defense General Administration and the National Disaster Reduction Committee immediately launched an emergency response and sent a working group to guide the flood control and disaster relief work.
The Henan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, relevant state ministries and commissions, the People's Liberation Army, the Armed Police Force, the fire rescue team and other relevant parties, as well as the majority of cadres and the masses, went all out to fight floods and rescue disasters.
At present, post-disaster reconstruction work is being carried out in an all-round and effective manner.
Although this disaster was caused by extreme weather, many problems and deficiencies were exposed.
In order to identify problems, sum up experience and learn lessons, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council established the "7.20" heavy rain disaster investigation team in Zhengzhou, Henan The Ministry of Resources, the Ministry of Public Security, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Health and Health Commission, the China Meteorological Administration, the National Energy Administration and the Henan Provincial Government participated in the division of comprehensive coordination, monitoring and forecasting, emergency response, transportation, urban waterlogging, and mountain torrents. Six special working groups including geological disasters are led by relevant ministries and commissions, and academicians and authoritative experts in the fields of meteorology, water conservancy, municipal administration, transportation, geology, emergency response, and law are invited to form an expert group to participate in the whole process.
The relevant departments of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission shall guide and carry out relevant work.
With an attitude of being responsible to the party and the people, society and history, the investigation team fully considered the fact that the intensity and scope of this heavy rainstorm broke local historical records and far exceeded the urban and rural flood control and drainage capabilities, and adhered to laws and regulations, seeking truth from facts, and being scientific and rigorous. , The principle of comprehensiveness and objectivity, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, through on-site investigation, data review, interviews and discussions, acceptance of petition reports, inquiries and conversations, investigation and evidence collection, analysis and calculation, expert demonstration, etc., to review the disaster occurrence and response process.
After a comprehensive and in-depth investigation, the performance and existing problems of the party committees, governments, departments and units in Zhengzhou City and relevant districts and counties (cities) have been identified, and the key events that have been widely concerned by the society and the late reporting of the number of deaths and missing persons due to disasters have been identified. , and summarize and analyze the experience and lessons, and put forward measures and suggestions for improving the work.
The investigation team found that the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government were not effective in implementing the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on flood control and disaster relief and the deployment requirements of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. , the responsibility of leading cadres at all levels was not tightened, the unified leadership role was not fully exerted in the face of disasters, and there were problems of formalism and bureaucracy; the main responsible persons of the party and government were late and slow to act, and did not effectively organize pre-disaster comprehensive research and judgment and Social mobilization, lack of unified command at critical moments, lost the initiative to effectively respond to disasters in a strong, orderly and effective manner; there is a problem of late reporting and concealment in the reporting of disaster information, and negligence and negligence in the late reporting and concealment of lower-level party committees, governments and relevant departments.
The investigation team also conducted an in-depth investigation into the incidents that caused heavy casualties and social concerns, identified the main reasons and problems, and determined that the death incident on Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 and the North Tunnel of the Beijing-Guangzhou Expressway was the responsible incident. The dam incident is illegal; the mountain flood disaster in Wangzongdian Village, Cuimiao Town, Xingyang City has problems such as improper emergency plan measures and untimely evacuation and transfer, and the explosion accident of Dengfeng Power Plant Group Aluminum Alloy Co., Ltd. has not truthfully reported the real cause of death and violated regulations Use post-disaster reconstruction subsidy funds for issues such as compensation for the families of the deceased.
At the same time, the investigation team also identified 6 districts and cities, 10 townships and streets, including Erqi District, Jinshui District, Gongyi City, Xingyang City, Xinmi City, and Zhengdong New District of Zhengzhou, as well as emergency management of Zhengzhou City and related districts (cities). 18 units in 8 systems including Zhengzhou Metro Group, Henan Wujian Group, and Zhengzhou Urban Tunnel Management Center are responsible for the responsibility of 18 units in 8 systems.
According to regulations, the investigation team will transfer the investigation report and relevant clues about the performance of public officials to the investigation team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission for accountability, accountability, review and investigation in a timely manner.
In response to the problems exposed in the disaster response and disposal, the investigation team summed up the main lessons from six aspects: some leading cadres in Zhengzhou City, especially the main responsible persons lacked risk awareness and bottom-line thinking; Can effectively play a unified leadership role; the implementation of the central government's emergency management system reform and deployment is not firm and in place; there are deviations in the development concept, and urban construction "emphasizes face and comprehension"; the emergency management system and capacity are weak, and the linkage mechanism between early warning and response is not perfect, etc. The problem is prominent; the emergency response ability of cadres and the masses and the knowledge of disaster prevention and self-rescue are seriously insufficient.
The investigation team also put forward six suggestions for improvement measures, emphasizing that it is necessary to vigorously improve the risk awareness and emergency response capabilities of leading cadres, establish and improve the local flood control work responsibility system with the same responsibility of the party and government, and carry out in-depth emergency management system reform and operation evaluation. Evaluate and revise emergency plans, strengthen the integrated management of early warning and response, improve the overall level of urban disaster prevention and mitigation, and extensively enhance the risk awareness and self-rescue and mutual rescue capabilities of the whole society.
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