China News Network, 6 June -- On 8 June, the State Council's new office held a press conference on "implementing the major policy decisions and arrangements of the 8th CPC National Congress and promoting the modernization of the emergency management system and capabilities." At the meeting, Wang Daoxi, vice minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management, revealed when talking about this year's flood control situation, according to the latest meteorological and water conservancy forecasts, during the main flood season (June to August) this year, the precipitation in the country will be two rainy belts in the north and south, and the precipitation in the northeast, north China, east China, south China and other places is more than 6%. The precipitation in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is less than 8-1%.
Larger floods may occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Songhua River, the upper reaches of the Nenjiang River, the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, the Pearl River Basin, Poyang Lake and Minjiang River. Phased summer droughts may occur in the eastern and middle reaches of the Yangtze River and Xinjiang. The number of typhoons making landfall in China is expected to be close to perennial, and the activity path will be dominated by westbound and northwestern routes, mainly affecting the coastal areas of South China and East China.
Wang Daoxi said that in order to win the tough battle of flood prevention and drought control this year, since the beginning of this year, the State General Organization for Flood Prevention has approved and notified 2521,8 administrative responsible persons for flood prevention and drought control nationwide, and sent eight national general inspection teams to 17 key provinces in seven major river basins to carry out flood prevention and preparedness inspections. In addition, the National General Flood Prevention specially organized and carried out joint exercises on flood prevention and typhoon prevention in the Yangtze River Delta region and desktop exercises on the national flood prevention and drought control emergency plan, and further improved the horizontal and vertical collaborative working mechanism. In the next stage, we will focus on strengthening the following aspects:
First, compacting flood prevention and drought control responsibilities. Further consolidate the flood control responsibilities with the chief executive responsibility system as the core, including administrative responsibility, inspection responsibility, technical responsibility, insurance responsibility, etc., and urge all localities to improve the five-level flood prevention guarantee responsibility, which is the provincial package city, city package county, county package township, township package village, township package village. Clarify the responsibilities and tasks of responsible persons at all levels, especially to be familiar with flood control plans, grasp the focus of work and the risks and hidden dangers in the responsibility area. It also clearly demanded that responsible comrades of the party and government should sit in command at the critical moment of flood control, and those responsible for ensuring insurance should sink to the front line.
The second is to strengthen the linkage between monitoring and early warning and emergency response. Pay close attention to the development and changes of flood conditions and drought, organize rolling meetings of meteorological, water conservancy, natural resources and other departments to discuss and judge, timely initiate responses according to the plan and research and judgment results, and send working groups and expert groups to the front line in a timely manner to assist local flood prevention work. Guide local governments to improve the linkage mechanism of meteorological early warning and emergency response, promptly initiate response based on early warning, further strengthen the "call-and-response" mechanism for disaster warning directly to the grassroots level, and ensure that those responsible for flood prevention at the grassroots level take preventive and response measures as soon as possible.
The third is to supervise and strengthen the inspection and defense of key projects. Supervise and urge relevant localities and departments to focus on key parts of important river embankments, reservoir hydropower stations, and important river-related infrastructure, as well as weak links such as dangerous reservoirs, embankment piercing buildings, mountain pond silt dams, tailings reservoirs, etc., continue to carry out hidden danger investigations, strengthen patrols and defenses, and ensure early detection and early protection of dangerous situations.
The fourth is to strengthen emergency rescue and transfer and avoidance. Supervise and urge all localities to pre-locate emergency rescue forces in key flood control areas, and pre-install emergency materials and equipment. Guide all localities to implement evacuation and avoidance measures in accordance with the plan, decisively transfer personnel from threatened areas in advance, and focus on strengthening the five key links of "who to transfer, who organizes, when to transfer, where to transfer, and how to manage", so that all transfers should be made and should be transferred early, and every effort should be made to avoid casualties.