Implement flood control and disaster relief measures and go all out to rescue.
At present, it is in the critical period of "Seven Downs and Eight Ups" flood control. Recently, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made important instructions on flood control and disaster relief work, requiring all localities to make every effort to search and rescue the lost and trapped people, do a good job in treating the injured and comforting the families of the victims, and minimize casualties. It is necessary to properly resettle the affected people, pay close attention to repairing damaged infrastructure such as transportation, communication and electricity, and restore normal production and living order as soon as possible.
In the past few days, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and other places and relevant departments have thoroughly implemented the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, strengthened monitoring, forecasting and early warning, strengthened inspection and duty, kept a close eye on key parts of flood control, invested a lot of rescue forces to rush to the scene for emergency treatment, promptly transferred and resettled the affected people, allocated and transported disaster relief materials, repaired damaged infrastructure, implemented various flood control and disaster relief measures, and made every effort to ensure the safety of people’s lives and property and the overall stability of society.
Strengthen strength to organize rescue.
On August 4th, the National Defense General Office and the Emergency Management Department organized a video consultation and scheduling on flood control and typhoon prevention, and held a joint consultation with China Meteorological Bureau, Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Natural Resources. The meeting pointed out that the current situation is grim in the northeast, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Jiangsu-Zhejiang coastal flood control and typhoon prevention. There are a large number of reservoirs in Haihe River basin that exceed the flood limit, and the flood storage and detention areas are widely used, so it is necessary to be highly alert to the risk of bank break during the water withdrawal period. On the same day, the National Defense General maintained the second-level emergency response to flood control in Tianjin and Hebei, and adjusted the third-level emergency response to flood control in Beijing and Henan.
Recently, many rivers in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province have experienced floods exceeding the warning level. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development set up a special working group to go to Zhuozhou for on-site guidance and coordinate Beijing Drainage Group’s support for emergency pumping and drainage of stagnant water. Four sets of large-scale emergency pumping and drainage units and 14 vehicles arrived in the early morning of the 4th, giving priority to pumping and drainage of important public infrastructure such as hospitals and substations and large-scale residential areas with heavy flooding. 16 emergency water supply vehicles and 52 professionals from Zhengzhou and Fushun bases of the National Water Supply Emergency Rescue Center were urgently dispatched to Zhuozhou for support.
The Organization Department of Hebei Provincial Party Committee allocated a special fund of 30 million yuan from the management of party membership fees on behalf of the provincial party Committee to support flood control and disaster relief work in key areas of Hebei Province. The Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of Hebei Province coordinated 18 mobile pump trucks, 17 emergency repair vehicles, 9 50 kW generators and more than 60 rescue team members in the surrounding areas to carry out urban drainage rescue work and 7 emergency water delivery vehicles to carry out emergency water delivery.
The river water level in Tianjin is gradually rising. At 12 o’clock on August 4, the Daqing River flood reached the boundary of Tianjin. Emergency rescue teams at all levels in Tianjin continued to invest in flood control and rescue work, and implemented heightening and strengthening projects for the dangerous sections of Daqinghe Right Nian, Ziyahe Left Nian and Daqinghe Left Nian in Dongdian flood storage and detention area, and the peripheral dikes and thistle canals in Dongdian flood storage and detention area. At the same time, Tianjin fully supported the disaster relief work in neighboring provinces and cities, and 114 social emergency forces went to Zhuozhou to participate in the rescue.
On the afternoon of August 4th, a rescue train from Yanshan Railway Station in Fangshan District, Beijing arrived at Shidu Railway Station. The commanders and fighters of the fire rescue team rushed into the scene for emergency rescue, and some local people affected by the disaster were evacuated safely on the same day. At the same time, stranded passengers, local villagers and other trapped people in Shidu Town have also been transported by railway.
As of 18: 00 on August 4, the national comprehensive fire rescue teams in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and the Shandong provincial fire rescue team with cross-regional reinforcements participated in handling 3,675 dangerous situations caused by this round of heavy rainfall, rescued and evacuated 25,803 trapped people and delivered 8.22 tons of materials.
Properly resettle the affected people
Since August 2, the National Disaster Reduction Committee and the Emergency Management Department have successively allocated 15,000 sets of family emergency kits and 15,000 pieces of central relief materials such as folding beds, cotton mattresses and summer quilts to the disaster-stricken areas in Hebei Province to support the resettlement and relief work for the affected people. Relevant central relief materials are being distributed to the affected people in an orderly manner.
On August 3-4, working groups sent by the National Disaster Reduction Committee and the Emergency Management Department rushed to Zhuozhou Vocational Education Center, Zhuozhou No.3 Middle School and other resettlement sites for the affected people, inspected and guided the resettlement work of the people, visited dormitories, canteens, medical points, security stations and other places, learned more about the check-in registration, relief materials distribution and on-site volunteer management, and reminded people to pay attention to their physical and mental health, especially strengthening the health screening, monitoring and other groups such as the elderly and patients with basic diseases.
On August 4th, the National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention issued the Guidelines for Environmental Sanitation Disposal and Preventive Disinfection in Flood-stricken Areas (2023 Edition) (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines). The "Guidelines" guide all localities to timely and effectively carry out post-disaster environmental sanitation cleaning and disinfection work from five aspects: sanitary protection of drinking water and environmental sanitation disposal of villages and places. The "Guidelines" clarify that bottled water should be preferred for domestic use. If there is no bottled water, it should be boiled and drunk. Do not eat any food that has been soaked in flood water. Cooking food should be fully heated before eating. The affected people should pay attention to personal protection, especially to strengthen hand hygiene, do a good job in wound care and personal health monitoring.
Beijing has gone all out to do a good job in resettling the affected people. As of August 3, Mentougou District has delivered more than 549,000 boxes (pieces) of mineral water, bread and other life support materials to 13 towns by land; 16,657 pieces (sets) of 19 batches of materials were allocated to 9 towns, rescue departments and train stranded passenger cars, and 18 kinds of living support materials, such as tents, folding beds and towels, worth more than 2.3 million yuan. Continuous heavy rainfall led to the accumulation of water and silt in many places in Shijingshan District, Beijing. On August 4th, Shijingshan District launched a special patriotic health campaign after the flood. Party organizations at all levels took active actions to jointly build communities and organize party member to report to the communities collectively, so as to help the communities affected by rainfall and water accumulation restore the environment and eliminate potential safety and health hazards.
Tianjin Municipal Defense Office issued continuous reminders for personnel transfer in Dongdian flood storage and detention area, clarified the completion time limit, and strengthened inspection and risk elimination. Tianjin Public Security Bureau has invested a total of 2,500 frontline police officers to strengthen on-site patrol and guard to ensure transshipment and resettlement. At present, 80,085 people have been transferred and resettled in the city, including 3,306 people in centralized resettlement and 76,779 people in decentralized resettlement. Wuqing district, Beichen District and Jinghai District were supported by Tianjin Disaster Reduction Office with more than 35,000 disaster relief materials in 7 categories.
Up to now, 46,104 permanent residents of 52 villages in 3 townships in xian county flood storage and detention area of Cangzhou City, Hebei Province have been transferred to their places. Fifteen centralized resettlement sites were opened, and 1,103 people were centrally resettled. The county leaders’ contract system was implemented, and the work of hardware facilities, fire safety, food safety, psychological counseling, health care, and contradiction mediation in resettlement sites was coordinated.
Up to now, Laishui County of Baoding City has received a total of 1,745 pieces (boxes) of bread, mineral water, instant noodles and other materials donated by all sectors of society, and the materials are being distributed to the masses in an orderly manner. In Zhuozhou City, where the disaster was more serious, the local authorities actively transferred and resettled the masses. Zhuozhou City has set up 57 resettlement sites. Among them, the resettlement site of Zhuozhou No.3 Middle School was opened at 22: 00 on August 2, and more than 4,500 people had been resettled by 10: 00 on August 3.
By 8: 00 on August 1st, more than 200,000 people in 213 villages and streets in 19 townships in 6 counties (cities, districts) of Langfang City have completed the transfer and resettlement. Each resettlement site has achieved the "seven haves" standard of daily necessities, hot water, bathroom, air conditioner (electric fan), wireless network, infirmary and police duty room.
Hebei Province has sent 547 mobile medical teams with more than 2,800 people and 321 health and epidemic prevention teams with more than 1,000 people to support the medical and health protection of people in disaster areas.
Pay close attention to repairing damaged infrastructure.
On August 4th, the National Development and Reform Commission issued an additional 100 million yuan in the central budget to support the emergency recovery and reconstruction of infrastructure and basic public service facilities in severely affected areas in Hebei and Tianjin. Together with the previously arranged 100 million yuan, the National Development and Reform Commission has arranged a total of 100 million yuan for Hebei, 50 million yuan for Beijing and 50 million yuan for Tianjin, which are earmarked for post-disaster emergency recovery and reconstruction.
In view of the recent damage of water conservancy facilities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region affected by Typhoon Du Surui, on August 4, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources urgently issued 450 million yuan of central financial water conservancy relief funds to support Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to seize the critical period of flood control and fully carry out the work related to the restoration of water conservancy facilities damaged by floods in the affected areas, such as dams, reservoirs, culverts, pumping stations and river courses, so as to ensure the implementation of various flood control and relief measures.
In order to support the emergency repair and disaster relief, the "lifeline" of communication was quickly opened. On August 4th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized airborne base station equipment to provide emergency communication support for the surrounding areas of Wangping Town and Tanzhesi Town in Mentougou District of Beijing, and achieved continuous 5G signal coverage for 6 hours in an area of nearly 80 square kilometers. At the same time, it provided voice, SMS and Internet access services for about 2,400 users, so as to meet the local flood control and disaster relief command and communication needs and support the restoration of public communication basic capabilities.
The General Administration of Financial Supervision instructed the supervision bureaus and banking and insurance institutions in the disaster-stricken areas to start emergency response at the first time, and earnestly do a good job in flood control and disaster relief and financial services for the people in the disaster-stricken areas. As of August 3, insurance institutions in disaster-stricken areas such as Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have received 143,600 insurance reports, and 27,300 cases have been paid, with a compensation amount of 116 million yuan. From the perspective of insurance, it mainly involves auto insurance, enterprise property insurance and agricultural insurance.
On August 4th, Beijing Branch of China Development Bank provided information on financial services such as flood control emergency loans and post-disaster reconstruction loans of the Development Bank to all districts in Beijing, and provided financial services for Beijing’s disaster relief material reserve, resumption of work and production, infrastructure reconstruction and river regulation. Wumart Science and Technology Group, which has undertaken the task of ensuring the supply of materials in disaster areas, has been granted an emergency loan of 500 million yuan, which is used to support the supply of materials in disaster areas and ensure market supply.
As of 12: 00 on August 4, 74 residential communities in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province have resumed formal or temporary power supply, with more than 70% restored. In the past few days, under the unified dispatch and command of State Grid Corporation, 93 emergency generators and 200 generators have set out from neighboring provinces such as Tianjin, Henan and Shandong to help Zhuozhou urgently. At the same time, State Grid Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan Electric Power have organized 500 emergency repair teams to support across provinces to fully protect people’s livelihood power supply.
(Comprehensive reporters Chen Yanan, Zhang Jiaying, Shuo Yang Bi, Li Xinping, Virginia Lieu, Ding Yiting, Qu Zhehan, Qu Xinming, Zhao Zhanhui, Ni Yi, He Yong, Wang Haonan, Pan Junqiang, Chen Weiguang, Wu Shaomin, Jin Bo, Li Jiading, Zhang Zhifeng, Shi Ziqiang, Shao Yuzi, Zhang Tengyang and Xinhua News Agency reported that People’s Daily reporter Fu Zhaosa participated.
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At 18: 00 on August 4, the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue yellow warning for severe convective weather, blue warning for rainstorm, blue warning for typhoon and yellow warning for strong wind.
This year’s No.6 typhoon "Kanu" continues to affect the East China Sea and other waters. It is expected that "Kanu" will move out of the East China Sea on the morning of the 6th and tend to the southeast of Japan, and its intensity will slowly weaken.
Meteorologists have warned that Kanu is moving to the north-east direction and far away from China, but its wind and rain will still affect Zhejiang, the northern part of Taiwan Province Island, the coastal areas and the East China Sea. It is suggested that these places and offshore platforms continue to do a good job in defense, and ships sailing in the nearby waters should pay attention to navigation safety. Please take precautions when people go out in Northeast China, North China and South China. Please don’t wade in water in Lu Yu and stay away from power equipment to avoid danger. Convection occurs frequently in the afternoon, please pay attention to the early warning and forecast information, guard against thunderstorms and hail weather, and be alert to tornadoes.
(Reporter Li Hongmei)
