Make every effort to defend and rescue, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee: This round of heavy rainfall is coming with fierce disaster situation | Provincial | Secretary

According to the meteorological information, affected by the cloud system around the typhoon "Haikui" and the monsoon, heavy rainstorm and local extremely heavy rainstorm have occurred in many cities and counties across the province. The provincial flood control headquarters has upgraded the emergency response to level II at 1:30 on September 8. On the morning of September 8th, Huang Kunming, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, presided over a video conference in Zhongshan to analyze and judge the development trend of heavy rainfall and the impact of disasters. He also commanded and dispatched relevant cities to do a good job in response and disposal, and deployed and implemented defense work throughout the province. Meng Fanli, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, attended the meeting.

At the meeting, the Provincial Meteorological Bureau analyzed the process of heavy rainfall and its future development trend. The Provincial Hydrological Bureau reported on changes in rainfall and water conditions. The Provincial Emergency Management Department, Provincial Water Resources Department, and Provincial Housing and Construction Department respectively reported on the progress of flood control work, water conservancy engineering, and urban waterlogging prevention in the province. Relevant cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Foshan were connected via video on site to inspect and guide local defense work.

After listening to the report, Huang Kunming pointed out that this round of heavy rainfall is fierce, long-lasting, and has a high risk of causing disasters. Various relevant departments in various regions have actively responded and dealt with it in a timely manner, achieving significant results.We should closely monitor weather changes, closely monitor rainfall, water, flood, and disaster situations, strengthen joint consultation and judgment, increase monitoring and early warning frequency, focus on short-term heavy rainfall in local areas, roll out short-term forecasts, flood and geological disaster risk warnings, and take timely preventive and response measures. We must resolutely and decisively transfer and avoid risks, with a focus on construction personnel and foreign tourists, to ensure that all necessary transfers are made without missing any household or individual. We need to accurately implement the joint drainage and commissioning of reservoirs, pay attention to the joint use of various flood control projects, timely divert floods, pay close attention to upstream water, and ensure the safety of flood control and discharge. We need to further strengthen defense measures in key areas, strengthen inspection and defense of small and medium-sized rivers, reservoirs and dams, closely monitor changes in water levels, take measures to eliminate risks and reinforce them, expand the scope of risk investigation, highlight the prevention of flash floods, and strictly prevent secondary disasters such as landslides from causing casualties. We must efficiently and orderly carry out emergency rescue, pre allocate material resources, strengthen the safety protection of rescue personnel, timely repair and connect lifelines such as water, electricity, roads, and networks that have been blocked due to disasters, and properly arrange for the disaster stricken population and provide basic living support. We need to strengthen the defense against urban flood disasters, implement emergency measures such as "five stops" according to the plan, closely monitor the situation of water accumulation and inflow in low-lying areas, underground spaces, and warehouses in the city, take effective control measures in a timely manner, strictly prevent personnel from entering danger, strengthen the supply of various materials, restore production and living order as soon as possible, and ensure the normal operation of the city. We need to strengthen publicity and guidance, continuously release rain and flood information, risk warnings, and disaster prevention information, enhance the public's awareness of disaster prevention and self rescue capabilities, and unite the whole society to work together in flood prevention and disaster relief. Party committees and governments at all levels should strictly implement the main responsibility of flood prevention and disaster relief. The main responsible comrades should command from the front and go deep into the front line to promote the implementation of various measures, and effectively achieve the responsibility of guarding the land, taking responsibility for guarding the land, and fulfilling the duty of guarding the land; The Provincial Defense Bureau should strengthen overall coordination and consultation and judgment, deploy and strengthen supervision in advance according to changes in flood and waterlogging situations, and relevant departments should closely cooperate and efficiently collaborate, strictly implement the system of leadership leading shifts and 24-hour dedicated personnel on duty, ensure timely dispatch, smooth instructions, and effective implementation, and work together to win the tough battle of heavy rainfall defense.

Provincial leaders Chen Jianwen, Zhang Hu, Xiao Yafei, and Zheng Ke attended the meeting.