Emergency Management Department: This year's flood disasters have caused 40 people to die and lose more than 70 % from the average value of nearly five years.

Cover Journalist Dai Rui

On July 8th, the National New Office held a routine briefing of the State Council of Flood Control. The cover reporter learned from the hair dryer that since the beginning of this year, the flood disasters have been affected by 21.805 million, the direct economic loss is 64.76 billion yuan, and the emergency transfer of 12.39 million people; More than 70 %.

On July 8th, the National New Office held a routine briefing of the State Council of Flood Control. Cover Journalist Dai Rui Photography

Zhou Xuewen, Secretary -General of the State Flood and Drought Resistance Headquarters, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, introduced at the press conference that this year's heavy rainfall process was large, and the rainy area overlapped. Since the flood in the flood, there have been 18 regional heavy rainstorms in China. There are 2 % to 1 times as many as South China and Fujian and other places. Guangdong and Guangxi have the most meteorological records. More than 1200 mm. Recently, this year's first typhoon "Siaba" and its residual cloud system brought a large range of heavy rainfall.

There are 48 rivers in the country above the floods above the war. There are 40 rivers and super protection. Thirteen rivers have the largest flood since the actual measurement records, which are mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Jiangxi. The Pearl River has two large floods in the basin.

Zhou Xuewen introduced that this year's engineering is in dangerous situation, and the geological disasters of the mountains are heavy. There are dangerous situations in 11 small and medium reservoirs in Hunan, Guangdong and other places. Essence Mountain flood geological disasters are repeated more, and more than 4,000 occurred in June alone, and the number of geological disasters is nearly half of the natural disasters.

According to reports, the state defense has launched the emergency response of flood prevention and typhoon prevention, and the State Disaster Reduction Commission and the Emergency Management Department initiated 5 emergency responses of disaster relief. 31 working groups and expert groups were dispatched to the front line to assist in guidance. About 24.79 million yuan in central flood prevention and rescue supplies to the disaster area. The emergency management department has the front rescue forces, emergency transfer to the affected people, effectively dispose of various dangerous conditions, dispatched 56,200 fire rescue teams, and rescue 312,000 people who were trapped.

Zhou Xuewen said that at present, the national flood prevention work is about to enter the key period of the "seven or eight". It is expected that from July to August, there are more rainfall in northern China, South China, Southwest and other places, and floods are focused on. Staged meteorological droughts occur; the typhoon is expected to land in the northwest, and at the same time, it is likely to land in the north. In the southern region, the flood conditions were heavier in the early stage, and there were many water destroying projects. In the later period, there were still strong precipitation and typhoon effects. The foundation of disaster prevention in the northern region was weak. Flood prevention work is facing double pressure from north and south, and the flood prevention situation is not optimistic.

He pointed out that in the next step, the National Defense and Emergency Management Department will firmly establish the bottom -line thinking and extreme thinking, implement the measures of the flood prevention disaster relief, and further strengthen the riverside flood defense, the prevention of the geological disaster of the roll Wait for work to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people.

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