(Beijing Comprehensive News) China has encountered extreme weather this year, and it will enter the critical period of flood control in the "seven or eight".Officials from China Emergency Management Department reminded local governments on Friday (8th) to strengthen monitoring and forecasts, issue early warning information, and transfer the threats to the people in advance.
According to the website of the National Council of the State Council, Zhou Xuewen, Secretary -General of the China National Flood Control Drought Resistance Headquarters, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, pointed out at the policies on Friday morning that "seven below and eight"That is, from the second half of July to the first half of August each year, this period is the critical period of flood control in China. A large -scale heavy precipitation often occurs, leading to severe flood disasters, and the northern region is particularly prominent.
He said that the central government must further consolidate various flood control responsibilities with the responsibility system of administrative heads, and urge all localities to establish and improve the liability for flood prevention contracting for provinces, cities, counties, townships, and villages.Responsible persons at all levels should grasp the hidden risks, be familiar with the flood prevention plan, and know the duty responsibility.During the critical period of flood prevention, the person in charge of the party and government must be instructed by the party and government.
He also pointed out that according to the characteristics of the rain and flood conditions, the rescue and rescue forces are preset in advance for key parts and weak links to ensure rapid response and invest in rescue and rescue as soon as possible.
The north and south of China have appeared in extreme weather in a large range of this summer. There are many high temperatures in the north, and there are many floods in the south, and severe flood disasters have occurred in many places.
Yao Wenguang, director of the Director of Water and Disaster Disaster Defense of the Ministry of Water Resources, said at the above -mentioned blower that this year, there were nine numbers of floods in China's main rivers and rivers, the most in the same period since 1998.Among them, seven number of floods occurred in the Xijiang and Beijiang of the Pearl River Basin, the most since 1949.A total of 487 rivers in China have more than 80 % of the floods above the high warning, which is more than 80 % of the same period since 1998.
The flood conditions in the Pearl River Basin are particularly serious. Two of the watershed in the basin this year, the major floods in the Beijiang River are the largest since 1915.
In response to the severe challenge of geological disasters in the second half of this year, the heavy rainfall of the North and South Line caused geological disasters, Yu Haifeng, director of the Department of Geological Survey and Management of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China, said at the press conference on Friday that the Ministry of Natural Resources will keep an eye on the heavy rainfall area and make a coordinated to do it.Geological disaster prevention on the North and South Line.
Yu Haifeng pointed out that in the first half of this year, a total of 4,872 geological disasters had occurred, which has exceeded the number of the whole year last year. The direct economic loss was 840 million yuan (RMB 175 million), which caused 75 people to die.Compared with the same period of the first five years, the number of geological disasters and the direct economic losses caused by geological disasters increased by 165.6%and 8.9%, respectively.
