The National Flood Control Administration has expanded the scope of Level 4 emergency response for flood control to eight provinces in Zhejiang Province
According to the meteorological department's forecast, there will be heavy rainfall in southern and southern China in the next 10 days. Compared with the same period in previous years, some areas in southern Jiangsu and Anhui, western Zhejiang, central and northern Jiangxi, Hunan, central and northern Guangxi, southern Guizhou, and western Yunnan have accumulated more precipitation. According to the development of the flood situation, the National Flood Control Administration launched a Level 4 emergency response for Guangxi and Jiangsu on the 18th, continuing to maintain the Level 4 emergency response for Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, and Guizhou. On the basis of the National Flood Control Working Group led by Wang Daoxi, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Deputy Minister of Water Resources, dispatched on the 17th, the National Flood Control Office dispatched two additional working groups to Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi, Anhui to assist and guide local flood control work on the 18th.
On June 18th, the Emergency Management Department organized a special video conference on flood prevention and coordinated with the China Meteorological Administration and the Ministry of Water Resources to jointly assess the development trend of rain and flood situation, and coordinated the flood prevention and relief work in key areas such as Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Guizhou. On the 18th, the General Office of the People's Republic of China issued a notice to provinces such as Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan to strengthen precise monitoring, forecasting, consultation and judgment, implement the "call and response" mechanism, ensure that danger warning information is timely conveyed to grassroots responsible persons, strengthen the linkage measures between warning and emergency response, strictly prevent mountain floods, geological disasters, floods in small and medium-sized rivers, and urban waterlogging, decisively move threatened populations in advance, and make every effort to organize emergency rescue and disaster relief.