Pick up the year ｜ Emergency management department responds to the southern drought response: The first -level emergency response of the drought relief and disaster relief has been initiated

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, responded to the recent drought response to the southern drought in southern my country at the press conference that the National Defense Corporation initiated a timely response to the four -level emergency response of drought resistance in 10 provinces. Send a number of working groups to the provinces of drought to assist in the guidance of the place to do a good job in drought -protection and disaster relief assistance.

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

Zhou Xuewen introduced that since July, the southern region of China has encountered rare and high temperature and rainy weather in the southern region of my country, especially in the Yangtze River Basin, which has developed rapidly. High temperature daily history is the most at the same time. Since July, the average high temperature of the Yangtze River Basin has been 32.5 days, which is the same period since the complete meteorological observation records in 1961; most areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and eastern Sichuan, Chongqing and other places, high temperature weather is more than 35 days. The history of precipitation is the least. Since July, the average precipitation of the Yangtze River Basin was 160.3 mm, which was 50.4%less than the same period of the year, and it was the least in history since 1961. Since July, drought disasters have caused a total of 37.85 million people. 4.28 million people need to live for rescue due to drought. The affected area of ​​crops is 4045,000 hectares, and the direct economic loss is 31.5 billion yuan, which has greatly increased compared with the same period in the past five years.

"According to the forecast of the meteorological department, by the 31st, the high temperature in the southern region of my country will end. In the past few days, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Chongqing, and Hubei in West China will increase rainfall. Droughts encounter sudden heavy rainfall, causing flood disasters. " Zhou Xuewen pointed out that it is predicted that the precipitation in the middle and lower reaches of the middle of the Yangtze River in the later period is still less. It may be drought in summer and autumn, and the situation of drought resistance is still not optimistic.

He said that the National Defense Office and the Emergency Management Department dispatched a national comprehensive fire rescue team to send water to the people of the drought area. In some places in the countryside, tap water in rural areas mainly relies on some small water sources, small reservoirs, and some rivers in mountainous areas to supply water, but long -term drought, water sources in these places are exhausted, and some people need to send water to ensure the safety of the people drinking water. At the same time, emergency management, emergency management The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance urgently allocated 700 million yuan in central natural disaster relief funds, and the State Food Reserve Bureau urgently transferred the central drought resistance and equipment, and fully supported local drought resistance and disaster reduction.

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