China release 丨 Emergency Management Department: In the first half of the year, various natural disasters caused a total of 39.143 million people.

China Net, July 21st on July 21, the emergency management department held a July routine press conference. The spokesperson for the emergency management department and the director of the Journalistic Propaganda Department, Shen Zhanli, reported that in the first half of the year, my country's natural disasters were flooded, hail, and hail. The geological disaster is the main degree, drought, earthquake, low temperature frozen and snow disaster, forest grassland fire, etc. also occur to varying degrees. Various natural disasters caused a total of 3.9143 million people. They disappeared 178 people due to disasters, 1.282 million were emergency transfer, 18,000 houses collapsed, and the affected area of ​​crops was 3618.9 thousand hectares. The direct economic loss was 88.81 billion yuan.

Shen Zhanli said that the regional characteristics of the national disaster in the first half of the year were obvious. From January to April, the national disaster situation was relatively stable. The flood disasters in May to June were serious. Generally, the disaster in the south was more important than the north. In the first half of the year, the national rainfall was more than the same period of the same year. There were many over -police rivers. The flood conditions in the Pearl River Basin were heavy. In many places in the south, urban and rural floods and flood geological disasters appeared, causing great losses to agriculture, industrial and mining, commerce, and infrastructure. The staged drought in South China, North China, Northwest and other places has affected the agricultural production of the local area.

In addition, in the first half of the year, a total of 19 strong convective weather processes appeared in the country, less than the same period of the same period in the past 5 years. A total of 18 cold air processes have been affected by the average value of the cold air, which is more than the same period of the same year. Low -temperature freezing and snow disaster mainly affect southwest, central and southern and other places. A total of 16 earthquakes occurred in mainland China, mainly concentrated in the western region, and did not cause large casualties.

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