China News Service, Beijing, July 18 (Reporter Chen Su) China has entered a critical period for flood control. Recently, many places have been hit by heavy rainfall, and the flood control situation is severe. The official multi-department emergency consultation and deployment of preventive response.
Since the beginning of the flood season this year, there have been many heavy rainfall processes in China. Larger floods have occurred in the Pearl River, the Beijiang River has experienced major floods, the Xijiang River has experienced four numbered floods, and the Xiangjiang and Ganjiang Rivers in the Yangtze River Basin have also experienced numbered floods one after another.
With the entry of the main flood season, the scope of heavy rainfall has further expanded. Recently, parts of the north, southwest and other places have been hit by heavy rainfall. Numbered floods have occurred in the Liaohe River, and the Weihe River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River, has exceeded the warning flow rate.
The Office of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (National General Office for Flood Control and Drought Relief) and the Emergency Management Department organized a special video conference on flood control on the 18th and pointed out that recent local heavy rainfall has occurred frequently, and mountain floods have occurred in many places, causing heavy casualties and lessons learned. very profound.
The new round of heavy rainfall has a wide range, fast movement and high local intensity, and the situation of flood control and disaster relief is complicated and severe.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to comprehensively consolidate the various responsibilities of flood control and flood fighting with the chief executive responsibility system as the core, earnestly put the safety of people's lives first and put it into practice, pay close attention to important flood conditions and weak links in flood control, and always adhere to flood control. Move the gate forward, and highlight the transfer of personnel in dangerous areas to avoid danger.
Strengthen overall coordination and early warning response linkage, issue early warnings in a timely manner, and strengthen information sharing on upstream and downstream rain conditions, water conditions, and flood scheduling.
According to the development of the dangerous situation in the flood season, strengthen the presetting of emergency rescue forces, make early preparations, and respond quickly.
On the same day, the Ministry of Water Resources held a special meeting and the Chamber of Commerce pointed out that according to forecasts, from late July to early August, the Songhua River Basin, the Huai River Basin Yishusi and the rivers of the Shandong Peninsula, the Dawen River, a tributary of the Yellow River, and the Aksu River in Xinjiang may occur. Major floods may occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Liaohe River, the Haihe River, the Hanjiang and Chuhe Rivers, tributaries of the Yangtze River, and the Lancang River in Yunnan.
It is necessary to comprehensively inspect and implement the response preparations of the flood control engineering system in key river basins, do a good job in preventing the collapse of check dams and mountain torrent disasters in advance, strengthen local short-term rainfall forecast and early warning, and transfer people in dangerous areas in advance.
On the 17th, the National Defense General Office issued a notice to 11 provinces including Sichuan and the Yangtze River and Huaihe River Basin, requiring a new round of heavy rainfall prevention and response work.
On the 18th, the General Office of National Defense sent a working group to Liaoning to assist in guiding flood control and disaster relief. The Sichuan working group and expert group of the General Office of National Defense continued to assist and guide the rescue and rescue of mountain flood disasters in Sichuan.
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