Solidly carry out flood prevention, drought relief, emergency rescue and disaster relief work
On June 13, firefighters were clearing silt in Zhongling Village, Zhongling Township, Jinping County, Guizhou Province.
On June 17, firefighters carried out rescue operations in Xiangdong Town, Wuping County, Longyan City, Fujian Province.
On June 17, a helicopter was transporting relief supplies at the Pingyuan County Stadium in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province.
On June 17, farmers were using truss sprinklers to irrigate the fields in Qianaijia Village, Lique Town, Guangrao County, Dongying City, Shandong Province.
Recently, heavy rainfall has continued in many parts of the south, and drought has developed rapidly in some parts of the north. Cadres and people from all regions and departments have taken active actions to comprehensively strengthen disaster prevention and response, do a solid job in flood control and drought relief, emergency rescue and disaster relief, and take various measures to effectively protect the safety of people's lives and property and the stability of the overall social situation.
Meteorological departments provide meteorological services. At 18:00 on the 18th, the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue yellow warnings for heavy rain, yellow warnings for high temperatures, meteorological risk warnings for floods in small and medium rivers, and meteorological forecasts for waterlogging risks. In response to the drought in some northern regions, the China Meteorological Administration launched a Level 3 emergency response to major meteorological disasters. Meteorological departments in drought-affected areas deployed 7 aircraft, carried out 23 aircraft rainmaking operations and more than 700 ground rainmaking operations in a timely manner, and increased precipitation by 230 million cubic meters in total.
The Ministry of Water Resources closely monitors the weather situation, conducts rolling flood forecasts for each river and key station, and holds timely consultations and assessments. The Pearl River Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources has initiated a level-three emergency response for flood control, and issued river flood warnings to the public in a timely manner. In response to the drought in some northern regions, the Ministry of Water Resources has organized the Yellow River, Huai River, and Haihe River Water Resources Commissions to work with water resources departments of various provinces in drought-affected areas to study emergency dispatch plans for drought relief, and all 456 large and medium-sized irrigation areas in drought-affected areas have been diverted as much as possible and irrigated as much as possible.
On the 17th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched a Level 3 emergency response to agricultural drought in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan provinces. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs brought into play the role of 1,654 regional agricultural machinery social service centers and 970 regional agricultural emergency and disaster relief centers, adjusted and dispatched 1.425 million emergency drought relief pumps, and irrigated 167 million mu of land for drought relief. Four working groups and seven scientific and technological teams were dispatched to seven provinces to provide technical services, guide local governments to implement drought relief sowing measures, and ensure sowing at the right time and in the right soil.
On the 18th, the Office of the National Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently launched a coordinated government-society guarantee mechanism for emergency materials, based on the allocation of 40,000 pieces of central disaster relief supplies to the drought-stricken areas in the north and flood-stricken areas in the south, and fully supported local governments in ensuring the basic living needs of the affected people.
On the 18th, the National Development and Reform Commission arranged an investment of 130 million yuan from the central budget to support the emergency restoration of damaged schools, hospitals, water conservancy and flood control facilities in the disaster-stricken areas of Fujian and Guangdong, and to promote the restoration of normal production and living order in the disaster-stricken areas as soon as possible.
Provinces such as Shandong and Henan, which are severely affected by high temperature and drought, are making every effort to carry out water scheduling, agricultural technical guidance and other work, and are fighting drought and protecting seedlings through various measures such as storing, diverting, regulating and saving water, striving to minimize the impact of drought.
"At present, the water supply of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, large and medium-sized reservoirs and rivers is normal, and the groundwater source is relatively sufficient, which basically meets the needs of drought resistance." A relevant person in charge of the Office of the Henan Provincial Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Committee said. Henan Provincial Emergency Management, Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Water Conservancy and other departments have set up 25 working groups and 27 expert groups to go deep into the front line and grassroots level in different cities, supervise and guide the work of water source dispatching, drought-resistant sowing, drought-resistant seedling protection, etc. in various places, and coordinate and solve practical difficulties and problems encountered in a timely manner.
Shandong Province has coordinated the allocation of water from the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and local water resources, strengthened the unified dispatching and management of drought-resistant water sources, and carried out water diversion and irrigation in 156 large and medium-sized irrigation areas, with a total irrigation area of 14.7527 million mu. Since May 1, Shandong's large and medium-sized reservoirs have released a total of 312 million cubic meters of water, and the backbone water diversion projects have diverted 330 million cubic meters of water. A total of 63 Yellow River diversion gates have been put into use, diverting 1.006 billion cubic meters of water from the Yellow River. "All 1,814 mu of farmland in our village has been sown," said Xu Qinqin, secretary of the Party General Branch of Yegangbu Village, Shuiguo Town, Shizhong District, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province.
"The person has been rescued, doctor, come quickly!" On the afternoon of June 18, in Shizhai Village, Nangang Town, Jiaoling County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, after more than two hours of rescue operations, a villager who had been trapped for about 46 hours was rescued by the Shenzhen Public Welfare Rescue Team and the joint search and rescue team on the scene. "We have repeatedly checked every household, used drones to conduct thermal imaging searches for collapsed buildings, and made every effort to search and rescue the lost and trapped people." Zhu Hongjun, leader of the rescue team's drone search and rescue team, said. As of 15:00 on the 18th, a total of 81,337 people had been relocated across Guangdong Province.
Flood situation is an order, and life is more important than Mount Tai. Since June 9, 89 floods have occurred in 41 stations on 31 rivers in 6 cities, 25 counties, and 15 other provinces in Fujian Province. So far, more than 98,000 cadres have been sent to the grassroots in Fujian Province, and more than 70,000 people have been relocated.
"There may be mudslides in the back mountain at any time. Come with us to the disaster shelter in the village." In the early morning of June 17, cadres from Luobutian Township, Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, went door to door to carry out a "door-knocking operation" to ensure that "no household is left out and no one is left behind" during the evacuation of the people. Since the 16th, the Hunan Provincial Emergency Management Department has urgently evacuated about 14,000 people from the danger zone.
The rain is falling and the water is rising. On the afternoon of the 17th, in Tatang Village, Rongjiang Town, Xing'an County, Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a couple in their 60s were trapped in their home by floods. Guilin fire rescue personnel rushed to the scene and used their bodies to build a "human ladder" to transfer the trapped people. As of the morning of the 18th, the Guilin Fire Department had transferred and evacuated a total of 435 people in this round of rainfall.
Starting from 5:00 a.m. on June 14, in the face of large-scale heavy rainfall, Libo County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province immediately organized the people to evacuate in advance. At 15:00, the flood peak passed smoothly without causing any casualties.
"Since June 9, people in areas threatened by flash floods and geological disasters have been evacuated as soon as possible. So far, 2,607 people have been evacuated," said Quan Zhiping, secretary-general of the Fuzhou Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, deputy director of the Municipal Water Resources Bureau and deputy director of the Municipal Emergency Management Bureau.
"It was raining so hard that I dared not go out. Thanks to the volunteers who helped me buy medicine and vegetables!" said Zhan Benren, a villager from Ma'an Village, Wutun Township, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province. In order to ensure the daily production and life of the villagers, Wutun Township established three "Party Member Help Groups" to purchase materials, provide production support, and provide medical support, to collect all kinds of basic needs of the resettled people and villagers, and to assist in purchasing and handling them.
On the afternoon of June 18, at the resettlement site of Baotou Dongqing Central Primary School in Dazhe Town, Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, relocated villagers were queuing up to receive mineral water and bread.
"As the weather clears up, the rescue forces across the town are racing against time to minimize the losses!" In Xishan Village, Guangfu Town, Jiaoling County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, at around 9 am on the 18th, three fire trucks and a minibus successfully entered the village from Wuping, Fujian, and carried out rescue work together with the town's rescue team.
On June 17, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Water Resources dispatched 12 provincial expert working groups to Meizhou, Heyuan, Zhaoqing and other places to guide flood prevention and emergency response. On June 18, 15 water conservancy technical experts went to Meizhou to support emergency rescue work. The Guangdong Provincial Fire Rescue Corps successively dispatched Chaozhou, Jieyang and other detachments to cooperate with the Guangdong Forest Fire Mobile Team to Meizhou for reinforcement.
"When the water level at each power station on the Wushui River drops to one meter below the normal level, execute immediately," "Emergency rescue teams and equipment are deployed to the front line."... At the Suining County Flood Control Command Center in Hunan Province, command and dispatch orders were issued accurately one after another. A total of 28 sets of emergency rescue equipment were dispatched by the highway, electricity, communications and other departments, and more than 120 repair personnel organized the emergency repairs with all their efforts.
As of 8:00 a.m. on the 18th, Hunan Province revised and improved more than 23,000 various dispatching plans, transfer plans, and emergency rescue plans. There were 9,072 professional teams, social rescue forces, and mass dike inspection teams with 437,000 people. 3,731 dangerous reservoirs were equipped with 3,780 excavators. The Hunan Provincial Water Resources Department dispatched Shuangpai, Ouyanghai and other large reservoirs to pre-discharge and intercept floods, intercepting a total of 660 million cubic meters of flood water.
Currently, Zhejiang Province has experienced the heaviest rainfall since the beginning of the plum rain season. As of June 17, all parts of Zhejiang Province have been conducting risk inspections and rectifications at 3,989 locations.
The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Transportation organized the emergency reopening of 27 sections of national and provincial highways and 48 sections of county roads; the Provincial Fire Rescue Corps conducted 315 inspections of flood control and rescue equipment, and was prepared for emergency rescue at any time.
Jiangxi Province has strengthened inspection, defense and emergency response in key defense areas such as small and medium-sized reservoirs, embankments, and water-related projects under construction, and scientifically dispatched various water projects to maximize the comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation benefits of flood control and flood storage.
In recent days, the 24-hour rainfall in 24 towns in Longyan City, Fujian Province exceeded the historical extreme, and many roads collapsed in Wan'an Town. The town has formulated emergency routes for candidates to take the high school entrance examination. More than 60 party members, cadres, teachers, militia reserve personnel, and retired soldiers formed an escort team and walked for more than an hour to deliver the candidates safely.
"Initiate the emergency communication support plan!" Landslides occurred in some areas of Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, causing damage to communication poles and other facilities, and interrupting some communication system services. The emergency communication repair team of Guilin Branch of China Telecom Guangxi Company quickly went out, crossed mountains and ridges, and raced against time to repair the damaged communication facilities. After several hours of hard work, the interrupted services were gradually restored from 15:00 on the 17th.
