Pick up the year ｜ What is the next situation of the flood prevention and drought resistance in my country?Emergency Management Department response

Cover Journalist Dai Rui

A few days ago, the Central Propaganda Department launched the "China Ten Years of Ten Years · Series Theme Release". The column of the cover news "Picking the Year" will pay attention to the whole process, reporting to China's achievements and changes in the past decade.

On August 30, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the reform and development of the emergency management field in the new era. Zhou Xuewen, deputy minister of the emergency management department, said at the press conference that according to the forecast of the meteorological department, this fall, the northern region, southwest, Central China, and South China have a lot of precipitation; Fu Qiu was drought, and the situation of flood prevention and drought resistance was not optimistic.

Zhou Xuewen, deputy minister of emergency management department. Picture source: Guoxin Office

"This year, my country's flood is early, the number of floods is large, the local disasters are heavy, and the high temperature and dry time are long." Zhou Xuewen pointed out that the average rainfall of the country this year is slightly less than the year. In the same year, 1 to 1 % is more than 1 %. A total of 586 rivers in the country have floods above super warning. The main rivers and rivers have occurred 10 times floods. Everyone remembers that the Pearl River Basin has formed two large floods in the basin. The biggest flood since the year. Guangdong, Liaoning and other places were severely affected, and major flood disasters occurred in Sichuan, Qinghai and other provinces. Since the beginning of this year, flood disasters have killed 171 people and disappeared, and 27,000 houses collapsed. Compared with the same period of the same period in the past five years, they decreased by 60%and 71.7%, respectively.

In addition, since July, the strongest heat waves in the Yangtze River Basin have occurred since 1961. Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, and Hunan provinces and cities have developed rapidly, which has affected the people's living water, agricultural production and power supply.

Zhou Xuewen pointed out that since the reform of the organization, the State's General and Emergency Management Department has strived to improve the long -term mechanism of flood prevention and drought resistance, and continued to strengthen the ability to build disaster prevention and mitigation. Improve the working mechanism of prevention -oriented and migration. Strengthen the risks of the multi -departments federations, and established the warning "responding" mechanism of the early warning of the person in charge of the grassroots, that is, the process of heavy rainfall often occur in the middle of the night and early morning. At this time, many people have rest. If the warning is issued, it may not be able to receive or hear the mobile phone text message and WeChat. This requires the meteorological department to issue a high -level warning. It is necessary It is required to establish a "called response" mechanism. It must be "called" and "agreed", and the meteorological warning is the starting condition for emergency response. The rescue and rescue forces are preset in the risk zone, and the right movement will be prevented.

He said that in recent years, the Emergency Management Department has successfully responded to a series of major disasters. In the 4 years since the reform of the institution, the average number of disappearances in flood disasters, the number of collapsed houses and the average value of the previous five years decreased by 30%and 55%, respectively.

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