China News Service, February 4. According to the WeChat official account of the Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China, on February 4, in accordance with the request of Wang Xiangxi, deputy director of the National Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief Committee and Minister of Emergency Management, the Office of the National Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief Committee, The Ministry of Emergency Management, the China Meteorological Administration, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Transport, and the National Energy Administration continue to organize joint discussions and video dispatch to 11 provinces including Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, and Guizhou to study and judge the current widespread rain, snow, and freezing weather conditions in the central and eastern parts of the country. To deploy prevention and response work in key areas during critical periods, Wang Daoxi, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, presided over the discussion.
At 16:00 on February 4, the Ministry of Emergency Management upgraded the Level 4 emergency response to low temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters in Hunan to Level 3, launched a new Level 4 emergency response to Jiangxi, and sent an additional working group to Hunan. Assist with guidance. Based on the impact of the disaster and the needs of local disaster relief work, together with the State Administration of Grain and Material Reserves, 20,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials such as cotton coats and quilts were allocated to Guizhou to support the disaster relief work for the affected people. Currently, the Ministry of Emergency Management maintains level three emergency response to low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters in Anhui and Hubei provinces, and maintains level four emergency response in eight provinces including Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Shaanxi. Previously, four working groups dispatched by the Office of the National Disaster Prevention, Reduction, and Relief Committee continued to assist and guide prevention and response work in the four provinces of Hubei, Anhui, Guizhou, and Shandong.
The discussion pointed out that this round of rain, snow and freezing weather has a wide range of impacts, a large amount of accumulated rain and snow, a long duration, and a large area of freezing rain. It is extreme. It is currently the peak period for returning home during the Spring Festival, and will usher in the 6th to 8th. In the new round of rain and snow, we must not relax in prevention and response work, fully consider the superimposed amplification effect and continuous adverse impact of multiple rounds of rain, snow and freezing disasters, deploy work more solidly, implement measures more meticulously, and do our best to It can reduce the impact of disasters caused by extreme weather and allow the people to have a happy, peaceful, safe and warm Spring Festival.
The consultation required that we continue to strengthen the coordination and linkage of early warning research and judgment and response measures. Disaster reduction committees and special command agencies at all levels should implement emergency response measures in advance based on meteorological warning information, strengthen joint rolling consultations and judgments, and improve information sharing and response linkage mechanisms. Supervise and guide cities and counties affected by disasters to promptly carry out snow removal, ice removal, and power repairs. Prepare teams and materials in advance, deploy emergency rescue forces in advance, strengthen snow melting agents, cotton-padded clothes, quilts and other material reserves, and carry out emergency rescue and disaster relief in a timely and efficient manner. In view of the safety management of truss structure buildings, temporary buildings and construction sheds in areas with heavy snowfall, the safety of resumption of high-altitude operations and equipment installation, disassembly, maintenance, etc., and the investigation of geological disaster hazards, etc., are promptly invested to form a joint force for prevention and response.
The discussion emphasized that ensuring smooth traffic and ensuring power supply should be the top priority of prevention and response work, and clear snow or ice on the road, focusing on cross-provincial road sections, bridges, highway ramps, and curves. Inspect and eliminate risks in high-risk areas such as mountain roads and mountain roads to ensure smooth traffic; strengthen the reporting and sharing of road traffic information, and coordinate cross-regional vehicle diversion and personnel evacuation to avoid the situation of a large number of vehicle personnel being stranded for a long time. Strengthen the inspection and monitoring of icing on the power grid, and promptly adopt current ice melting and mechanical deicing measures to ensure the safety of the main grid operation; for rural power grids in mountainous areas and distribution networks with low security rates, prepare emergency repair teams and deicing and deicing equipment. Ensure that the risk is eliminated and the insurance is paid as soon as possible.
The Office of the National Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management played a coordinating role, and promptly coordinated with the offices of the Hubei and Hunan Provincial Disaster Reduction Commissions together with the public security, transportation and other departments to properly handle the vehicle congestion at the junction of Hubei and Hunan on the Erguang Expressway and use police cars to clear the way. , release in batches and other methods to ease the resumption of traffic. Implemented cross-provincial ice and snow removal project rescue teams of 10 teams with 500 people and 19 aviation rescue helicopters, and guided and coordinated the emergency management departments of Anhui and Hubei provinces to connect 20 teams with more than 1,600 people from central enterprise engineering rescue teams. The United Tower Group conducts intensive monitoring, closely follows towns and villages with high tower power outage rates in Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing and other provinces, and coordinates emergency repairs. The national comprehensive fire rescue team carried out emergency rescue quickly and efficiently in accordance with disaster rescue plans for traffic accidents, collapse of buildings (structures), collapse of power transmission and distribution facilities, etc., and participated in rain, snow, and freezing disaster rescue operations from January 31 to February 4. There were 221 rescues, 1,230 fire rescue personnel and 305 vehicles were dispatched, and 231 trapped people were rescued.