The National Office for Flood Control and the Ministry of Emergency Management will discuss and dispatch flood control and disaster relief work in key areas. Inner Mongolia | Flood Control | Key Points
Beijing, July 9th (Xinhua) - The National Office of Flood Control and the Ministry of Emergency Management organized a special video conference on flood control on July 9th, in consultation with the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the China Meteorological Administration to assess the current trend of flood situation development. The video was connected to the flood control and disaster relief offices of provinces such as Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Chongqing, and Guizhou to study and deploy flood control and disaster relief work in key areas.
The meteorological department predicts that there will still be strong rainfall processes in the Jianghuai, Jianghan, northern Jiangnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, eastern Inner Mongolia, and southern Northeast China in the near future. The consultation pointed out that the country is about to enter a critical period of "seven down and eight up" flood prevention, and the flood prevention situation is severe and complex. All regions and departments should be highly vigilant, compare and identify their own shortcomings, comprehensively implement various preventive measures, and ensure that the deployment of checkpoints is moved forward.
The meeting emphasized the need to effectively implement various flood control and drought relief responsibility systems with the administrative head responsibility system as the core, and urge party and government flood control responsible persons at all levels, especially those responsible for package protection, to go deep into the grassroots, and resolve the early signs of problems before disasters occur. We must continue to carry out hidden danger investigation and rectification, timely analyze and identify warning signs of dangerous situations, and decisively take measures such as "shutdown and evacuation" in advance. We need to improve the execution of the linkage mechanism between early warning and emergency response, as well as the emergency response mechanism for disaster warning. We should focus on key defense areas and weak links such as dangerous reservoirs, high-level ponds and dams, mountain flood risk areas, geological hazard hidden points, and urban flood prone points.
At present, the National Flood Control Administration maintains a Level 4 emergency response for flood control in 10 provinces including Inner Mongolia. The National Disaster Reduction Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management maintain a national level IV disaster relief emergency response for Chongqing.