China News Service, March 1. On March 1, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the progress of promoting post-disaster water conservancy infrastructure construction.
At the meeting, Chen Min, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, pointed out that in 2023, river floods in our country will occur frequently. At the end of July and early August, the largest basin-wide flood in 60 years occurred in the Haihe River Basin, and some tributaries of the Songhua River Basin experienced floods that exceeded actual measured records. Flood prevention and fighting The situation is extremely complex and severe, seriously threatening the safety of people's lives and property.
The Ministry of Water Resources, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, together with the provincial people's governments, are making every effort to promote post-disaster recovery and reconstruction focusing on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and other northern regions, accelerate the improvement of the river basin flood control engineering system, and improve the overall flood control capacity of the river basin.
The first is to repair water-damaged water conservancy facilities as soon as possible.
After last year's flood, in order to restore normal production and living order in the disaster area as soon as possible, local governments were promptly guided to speed up the verification of flood damage, and all compensation funds used in flood storage and detention areas were released in a timely manner to ensure that the people live and work in peace and contentment and have a warm winter.
In accordance with the "Plan for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction in North China focusing on Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to improve disaster prevention and reduction capabilities" approved by the State Council, local governments are guided to repair water-damaged reservoirs, rivers, embankments, flood storage and detention areas, rural water supply, farmland irrigation and drainage, hydrology, etc. Water conservancy facilities.
Currently, there are 5,542 key water damage repair projects, 4,558 of which have been repaired, ensuring that the repair and reconstruction of flood-damaged projects tasked with flood control tasks can be completed to a high standard before the main flood season in 2024.
The second is to accelerate the implementation of water conservancy projects through the issuance of additional treasury bonds.
Make full use of the central government's issuance of additional government bond funds to speed up the construction of post-disaster water conservancy projects.
The National Development and Reform Commission consulted with relevant departments to screen projects and form a list of projects, which were all issued in three batches. It also cooperated with the Ministry of Water Resources to issue management measures for additional national debt issuance water conservancy projects in 2023, and organized and guided local governments to carry out pre-project work, project start, and construction by classification. Full-process management including management, investment plan execution, project quality and safety, and fund use to ensure that the construction progress of water conservancy projects meets requirements.
At present, 1,488 national debt water conservancy projects have been implemented, with an investment of 29.31 billion yuan completed, and the overall progress is smooth.
The third is to improve the flood prevention and disaster reduction system in the Haihe River, Songhua River and Liaohe River basins.
Conscientiously implement the relevant requirements of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on comprehensively strengthening the construction of flood control, drainage and disaster relief infrastructure in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and other northern regions, firmly establish a system concept, adhere to a game of chess for the entire basin, coordinate the basin and region, and handle the upstream and downstream, left and right banks, and Regarding the relationship between main rivers and tributaries, we will speed up the revision of river basin flood control plans and the preparation of short-term governance implementation plans to address weak links in river basin flood control.
In the Haihe River Basin, which is the focus of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, we will accelerate the improvement of the river basin flood control engineering system consisting of reservoirs, rivers, embankments, and flood storage and detention areas. Targeting key areas and important infrastructure, we will rationally build peripheral flood storage, diversion and drainage projects to optimize the flood control pattern.
At the same time, we will accelerate the construction of "three lines of defense" for rainwater monitoring and forecasting and the construction of digital twin river basins.
Chen Min said that in the next step, the Ministry of Water Resources and the National Development and Reform Commission will work with local governments to do their best to carry out post-disaster water conservancy construction work to ensure that projects with popular support, quality projects, and clean projects will be built, and the shortcomings of the flood control engineering system will be quickly filled, and flood prevention will be comprehensively improved. The disaster reduction capability provides a strong water security guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.