Involving an amount of 62.3 million yuan, the Mentougou District of Beijing has assessed and compensated 1969 damaged vehicles due to the disaster
Many cars were damaged in Mentougou District of extremely heavy rainstorm during the torrential rain disaster. At the press conference on Beijing flood control and disaster relief work held today, Yu Huafeng, secretary of Beijing Mentougou District Committee of the CPC, said that the "Mentougou District Announcement on the Rescue and Claims of Water related Vehicles" has been released through the "Beijing Mentougou" official account, and the contact information of the insurance claims work team, the insurance associations and various insurance companies has been published. A consultation window on the claims of damaged vehicles has been set up in the district government affairs service center to promote the entry of relevant insurance companies and automobile service companies. Staff have been arranged on the site to answer the masses' inquiries, answer the claims questions concerned by the masses on the spot, answer the insurance claims, vehicle maintenance, old vehicle acquisition, update indicators, vehicle scrapping and other processes, and actively respond to the concerns of damaged owners problems.
At present, with the opening of the mountain road, vehicle claims services have covered all affected towns and streets in Mentougou District. As of 5:00 pm on August 8th, a total of 4372 damaged vehicles have been reported and 4039 have been surveyed. Among them, 1969 vehicles were assessed and compensated, involving an amount of 62.3 million yuan.
Yu Huafeng introduced that in order to better meet the vehicle replacement needs of damaged car owners, Mentougou District will organize car dealers to actively provide services in September, with greater efforts to provide car purchase discounts for damaged car owners, and distribute special car consumption vouchers to damaged car owners to meet the needs of the public not to go out of the district to choose a car for purchase.