China News Service, June 9. The Emergency Management Department held a regular press conference for June 2022 on the 9th.
Shen Zhanli, spokesperson of the Ministry of Emergency Management and Director of the Press and Publicity Department, introduced at the meeting that the Ministry of Emergency Management, together with relevant member units of the National Disaster Reduction Committee, conducted a consultation and analysis of the national natural disaster situation in May.
In May, my country's natural disasters were mainly floods, wind and hail, and geological disasters. Drought, low-temperature freezing, earthquakes, and forest fires also occurred to varying degrees.
Various natural disasters caused a total of 5.999 million person-times affected, 49 people died and missing due to the disaster, and the direct economic loss was 7.76 billion yuan.
Four regional rainstorms occurred in the southern region, causing floods and floods, causing disasters in 15 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and geological disasters such as collapses, landslides, and mudslides occurred locally in Southwest China, Central South China, and East China. The local meteorological drought continued in North China, Huanghuai and Northeast China; the severe convective weather process was less than the same period in previous years, and the losses were mainly concentrated in agriculture and forestry. Lightning strikes in Sichuan, Qinghai and other places caused casualties; no earthquakes of magnitude 5 or above occurred in the mainland, and no casualties.
According to preliminary statistics, in May, there were 1,730 production safety accidents and 1,402 deaths across the country, including 24 major accidents and 78 deaths. "trend.
However, some key industries still have prominent risks and frequent accidents. For example, underground construction operations such as tunnels and underground pipe networks have increased risks of secondary accidents caused by extreme weather. The inspection, maintenance, and trial production links in the chemical industry have prominent risks. Safety accidents in environmental protection facilities are frequent, and the risk of road transportation of passenger and dangerous goods in the transportation sector is prominent, and the situation of production safety is still severe and complicated.