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

Demonstration of the Emergency Management Department in July (Photography: Cover Journalist Teng Yan)

Cover reporter Teng Yan Dai Rui

On July 21, Shen Zhanli, a spokesman for the emergency management department and director of the Journalism Department, introduced at the routine press conference of the emergency management department in the July Report Conference that the various natural disasters in the first half of this year caused a total of 39.143 million people. 178 people, emergency transfer and resettlement 1.282 million.

Shen Zhanli said that in the first half of the year, my country's natural disasters were mainly floods, hail, and geological disasters. Drought, earthquakes, low temperature frozen and snow disasters, and forest grassland fires also occurred to varying degrees.

Data show that a total of 39.143 million people were affected by various natural disasters. They disappeared for 178 people due to disasters, 1.282 million people were emergency transfer, 18,000 houses collapsed, and the affected area of ​​crops was 3618.9 thousand hectares. The direct economic losses were 88.81 billion yuan.

In the first half of the year, the national disaster-staging regional characteristics 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.

The main features are the following. First, the national rainfall is much more than the same period of the same year. There are many super -police rivers, and the flood conditions in the Pearl River Basin are heavy. In many places in the south, urban and rural waterlogging, flood geological disasters, etc., which causes agriculture, industrial and mining, trade, infrastructure, etc. loss. Second, there are a total of 19 strong convection weather in the country, which is less than the same period of the same period in the past 5 years. Third, staged drought in South China, North China, Northwest and other places, which affects the agricultural production of the local area. Fourth, a total of 16 earthquakes occurred in mainland my country in mainland China, which are mainly concentrated in the western region, which has not caused large casualties. Fifth, the country has suffered 18 cold air processes across the country, which is much more than the same period of the same period. Low -temperature freezing and snow disaster mainly affect southwest, central and southern and other places. Sixth, the fire situation of the forest grassland fire is generally stable, and there are no major forest fires.

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