According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, at present, the National Defense Department maintains a four-level emergency response to flood control in seven provinces including Chongqing, and on the 7th, it launched a four-level emergency response to flood control in the three northeastern provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and sent a working group to Heilongjiang to help guide flood prevention and disaster relief.
On 7 July, the State General Department of Flood Prevention and Drought Control issued a circular to the flood prevention and drought control headquarters of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government), the flood prevention and drought control headquarters of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the flood prevention and drought control headquarters of all river basins, and all member units of the State General Department of Flood Control, calling for a sober understanding of the current severe and complex situation in flood prevention and disaster relief, paying close attention to various flood prevention and relief measures, earnestly putting the safety of people's lives and property in the first place, and striving to minimize all kinds of losses.
The circular requires that all departments at all levels should take immediate action to promote the full implementation of the main responsibility of the party committee and government for flood prevention and disaster relief, strengthen forward command, take the initiative to study and judge, accurately identify changes in the flood situation in their regions, deploy in advance, strengthen supervision, and ensure that there is a responsibility to defend the territory, be responsible for defending the territory, and fulfill the responsibility of defending the territory. It is necessary to highlight the key points of prevention, and in view of the weak links such as frequent occurrence of flash floods and geological disasters, serious flooding disasters in small and medium-sized rivers, and prominent problems of urban waterlogging, adhere to the combination of prevention and rescue, strengthen the investigation of potential safety hazards, and strengthen comprehensive defense and systematic governance measures. It is necessary to accurately study and judge early warnings, continue to strengthen cross-departmental 24-hour joint dynamic consultations, timely issue early warnings, improve the disaster warning "call" mechanism that directly reaches the person responsible for flood prevention at the grassroots level, implement the plan for the evacuation and transfer of personnel who are left behind, and resolutely and decisively transfer the threatened people.
The circular requires that scientific and meticulous scheduling should be carried out, the joint use of various flood control projects should be strengthened, and measures such as "blocking, adjustment, division, dredging, delay, and leakage" should be reasonably adopted to maximize the benefits of disaster prevention and mitigation of the engineering system and ensure the safety of major rivers. It is necessary to strengthen the presetting of forces, and according to the needs of flood disaster rescue and rescue, deploy emergency response forces and materials and equipment in advance to ensure timely water rescue, search and rescue, and dangerous situation handling. It is necessary to strengthen the resettlement of disaster-stricken people, promptly allocate disaster relief funds, quickly transfer disaster relief materials, and implement measures for daily life assistance and production self-help. It is necessary to make overall plans for drought resistance and disaster reduction, optimize the allocation of water sources, strengthen planned water use, save water, timely carry out artificial rainfall, reservoir storage, and drilling of machine wells, and when necessary, organize and carry out emergency services such as pulling water and sending water and mobile irrigation, ensure the safety of drinking water for urban and rural residents, and strive to ensure the demand for water for industrial and agricultural production. At the same time, beware of rapid changes in drought and flooding. It is necessary to strengthen the prevention and control of risk sources, speed up the filling of shortcomings, plug loopholes, strengths and weaknesses, and comprehensively improve disaster defense capabilities.
Since the beginning of this year, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has participated in a total of 1677,1 flood prevention and rescue rescues, dispatched 31,2375 fire rescue commanders and fighters, 383,6348 vehicles, and <> boats, and rescued and evacuated <>,<> trapped people.