Jin Guanping: Winning the Hard Battle of Flood Control and Anti Flood Warning | Disaster Prevention | Hard Battle
Recently, Chongqing and other areas have experienced heavy rainfall, with some rivers experiencing floods exceeding the warning level, causing secondary disasters such as flash floods and mudslides, resulting in significant casualties and property damage.
China is one of the countries with the most severe water disasters in the world. Although China's flood prevention and control capabilities have significantly improved in recent years, the losses caused by disasters every year cannot be underestimated. Taking 2022 as an example, flood disasters caused 33.853 million people to be affected throughout the year, resulting in direct economic losses of 128.9 billion yuan.
At present, China is about to enter the key period of "seven under eight" flood control. According to the discussion and judgment of relevant departments, this year's flood season, the Yangtze River, Huaihe River, the Taihu Lake Lake and Songliao River basins have flood disaster risks, and some regions have high geological disaster risks. At the same time, as China's economy gradually recovers and production and business activities in various regions continue to recover, summer consumption will also enter a peak, which cannot be submerged or afford. Winning the tough battle of flood prevention and control, ensuring the flood control safety of major rivers and key reservoirs, and minimizing the impact of flood disasters is not only a major economic responsibility for people's livelihoods, but also a political task that must be grasped and implemented quickly.
The systematicity and complexity of flood prevention and control are self-evident. From the construction of various disaster prevention infrastructure before the disaster, the construction of monitoring and early warning systems, to daily consultation and judgment, risk and hidden danger investigation, scientific water use and diversion, and then to rescue and reconstruction work during and after the disaster, each link requires stronger measures from various regions and departments to build an efficient, accurate, and normalized early warning, prevention, and rescue system.
Persist in moving the checkpoint forward. Prevention is the most economical, effective, and important disaster management strategy. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China attaches great importance to disaster prevention and reduction work, proposes a new concept of "two persistences and three transformations" for disaster prevention, reduction and relief, and calls for the establishment of an efficient and scientific natural disaster prevention and control system, improving the ability of the whole society to prevent and control natural disasters, and providing strong guarantees for protecting the safety of people's lives and property and national security.
By continuously improving monitoring and early warning capabilities, relevant departments can detect and handle disasters early, providing time guarantee for the public to move and avoid risks in advance. According to the National Comprehensive Disaster Prevention and Reduction Plan for the 14th Five Year Plan, by 2025, the public coverage rate of disaster warning information release in China is expected to reach 90%. We should further make good use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and intelligent remote sensing, promote information sharing and data linkage, further strengthen the disaster warning mechanism that directly reaches the grassroots, and prevent and reduce the risk of flood disasters from the source.
The critical moment of the flood and rainstorm not only tests the ability of emergency management and disaster prevention, but also tests the responsibility and feelings for the people of leading cadres at all levels and the majority of Party members. Since the beginning of this year, the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Administration has approved and notified 2521 national flood control and drought relief administrative responsible persons. We need to further strengthen the various flood control responsibilities with the administrative head responsibility system as the core, clarify the responsibilities and tasks of responsible persons at all levels, familiarize ourselves with flood control plans, grasp the work priorities, and identify risks and hidden dangers within the responsibility area.
Flood control and disaster relief work is better to be tight for a hundred days than to be loose for a day. All regions and departments should always tighten the string of preventing major floods, seizing major risks, and rescuing major disasters, and make preparations with bottom line thinking and a sense of concern. They should maintain a cautious and consistent state of readiness, be prepared and ready to fight, and effectively ensure the safety of people's lives and property.