Adhere to the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life—a summary of recent flood control and drought relief work

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 19th.

　　Xinhua News Agency "Xinhua Viewpoint" reporter

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection tour in Liaoning a few days ago that party committees and governments at all levels must adhere to the principle of putting people first and life first, strengthen flood monitoring, timely check for hidden risks, take various measures for flood prevention and disaster relief, and properly resettle the affected people to ensure that the people life safety.

He also stressed that we must do a good job of drought relief.

　　At present, the northern region of my country is still in a critical period of flood control, and some rivers have flooded beyond the warning level.

Parts of the south have experienced a drought that has been rare in the same period for many years.

Party committees and governments at all levels must thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, pay close attention to various flood control and drought relief measures, and make every effort to protect the safety of people's lives and property, and ensure the normal operation of production and life.

Do a good job in flood control and disaster relief

　　In the early morning of August 18, a flash flood struck Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Xining City, Qinghai Province, causing heavy casualties.

　　After the disaster, Qinghai Province quickly launched the second-level emergency response to provincial emergency disasters.

At present, a total of more than 4,500 people from the armed police, public security, fire protection, emergency response, health and other departments and village cadres have been organized in the local area, and the surrounding people have been mobilized to participate in the rescue and disaster relief work.

　　In response to the mountain torrent disaster in Datong County, the National Disaster Reduction Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management launched a national level III disaster relief emergency response to support local governments to do well in disaster relief work such as life assistance for the affected people.

The Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Water Resources sent a working group to Qinghai urgently to guide rescue and related disposal work.

　　Since the flood season, Liaoning has experienced multiple rounds of heavy rainfall, and the floods have caused damage to crops and property losses of the masses.

With the support of relevant central departments, Liaoning has made every effort to do all kinds of disaster relief work, and transferred nearly 200,000 people affected by the disaster in time.

　　In the temporary resettlement site of Lujia Middle School, Lujia Town, Shuangtaizi District, Panjin City, the reporter saw that daily necessities such as beds, pillows, quilts and so on are neatly placed here, and there are sufficient reserves of mineral water, vegetables, and fruits.

The staff of the resettlement site said: "We will place the elderly and their accompanying staff who are inconvenient to move on the first floor. There are 4 medical staff in the village health center to provide medical security for the people in the resettlement site."

Actively fight drought and drought relief

　　Since July, affected by the high temperature weather, the average precipitation in Chongqing has decreased by about 50% compared with the same period of the previous year, and some small and medium-sized rivers have stopped flowing.

Right now is the critical period of autumn sowing seedlings and ramet propagation. High temperature and water shortage can easily lead to crop yield reduction.

　　In Dianjiang, a major grain-producing county in Chongqing, dozens of small and medium-sized reservoirs have become the "main force" for drought relief.

The Yingfeng Reservoir in Pushun Township is a small reservoir. Hu Ping, the person in charge on duty, said that in order to ensure that the drought-afflicted farmland "drinks water" in time, the water conservancy department dredged the main canals in advance.

In the past month, the Yingfeng Reservoir has opened gates and released more than 3 million cubic meters of water, "quenching thirst" for more than 13,000 mu of farmland in surrounding towns.

　　Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management issued an emergency fund of 210 million yuan from the central government for natural disaster relief to support 7 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan, and Xinjiang to do well in drought relief and disaster relief, focusing on solving urban and rural residents' water difficulties And other issues.

　　Starting from 12:00 on August 16, the Ministry of Water Resources has implemented the "Special Action for Joint Dispatching of Reservoirs Groups in the Yangtze River Basin for Drought Relief and Water Supply". At present, reservoir groups in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake water system reservoirs and Poyang Lake water system reservoirs with the Three Gorges Reservoir as the core have been dispatched. The group supplies 760 million cubic meters of water downstream.

Since the upstream replenishment on the 16th, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces have accumulated 15.17 million mu of irrigated arable land.

Further work on flood control and drought relief

　　The General Office of National Defense issued a notice a few days ago, requesting to improve the prevention and response of mountain torrent disasters in terms of improving the level of monitoring, forecasting and early warning, strengthening the management and control of key groups and sites, and carrying out risk and hidden danger investigations, and taking resolute measures to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

　　In response to the mountain torrent disaster caused by local heavy rainfall, the Ministry of Water Resources requires to further improve the forecast information "through the end" and the information feedback mechanism, so that the rainfall forecast "one province and one order" will go directly to the front line; Early warning information arrives at the post; implement personnel evacuation and control measures according to the early warning information; urge the relevant responsible persons to perform their duties and strengthen accountability.

　　In response to the flood situation, the water conservancy department has deployed and strengthened the measures to prevent the collapse of check dams and the flood prevention of small and medium rivers in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River.

　　According to the latest forecast from the hydrological and meteorological departments, the precipitation in the Yangtze River Basin is still low in mid-to-late August.

It is expected that in the next few days, except for light or moderate rain in some parts of the Yangtze River Basin, most areas will still maintain high temperature and little rain.

　　The General Office of National Defense and the Department of Emergency Management have made it clear that in high-temperature and arid areas, the role of water conservancy projects in comprehensive disaster reduction should be fully utilized, and water resources should be optimized and dispatched. , water supply, to ensure the people's domestic water in the first place, to maximize meet the needs of industrial and agricultural production water.

In arid areas, beware of sudden changes in droughts and floods, and be prepared to deal with them.