Henan Province’s Finance Releases 4.725 billion Yuan for Flood Prevention and Disaster Relief Funds to Speed up Post-Disaster Reconstruction
CCTV News: Yesterday (August 4) afternoon, Henan Province held a press conference to speed up post-disaster reconstruction, reporting the current and future post-disaster reconstruction and recovery situation.
According to the report at the press conference, since mid-July this year, Henan has experienced extreme rainstorms. At present, the disaster situation in most areas has been effectively alleviated, and the focus of work is shifting from flood prevention and disaster relief to post-disaster reconstruction.
According to the press conference, from July 22 to August 2, Henan Provincial Finance issued 11 batches of funds totaling 4.725 billion yuan, which provided strong support for flood prevention and disaster relief. Fiscal funds also provide 164 million yuan of subsidies for small businesses in urban and rural areas, which are mainly used to provide rent subsidies for a certain period of time to commercial and commercial enterprises and individual businesses that have ceased production and business due to disasters.
Li Yingwei, deputy director of the Henan Provincial Development and Reform Commission: In terms of efforts to reduce the burden on enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households that rent state-owned assets for operating houses and are unable to operate normally due to the impact of the disaster will be exempted from one month’s rent and halved for two. Monthly rent, and clarified corresponding deferred payment policies in taxation, social security and other fields.
As of August 3, 14.7 million mu of crops were affected in Henan Province, with no harvest of 5.7 million mu; 18,527 farms were affected, with 11.14 million livestock and poultry dead; 330,000 mu of fisheries were affected, and agricultural damage was the heaviest in many years. One year.
Wang Chengqi, deputy director of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture: Organize planting as soon as possible for the more than 900,000 acres of land that meets the conditions, and ensure that all planting is completed within a week. For the 2.6 million acres of land where the accumulation of water has been drained and need to be dispersed, the dark water in the field shall be removed as soon as possible, and the time for planting conversion shall be maximized. For flood storage and detention areas and more than 2.2 million acres of land with water accumulation, the accumulated water in the fields shall be removed as soon as possible after the accumulation of water has receded, the fields shall be dried and the soil shall be scattered, and conditions shall be created for replanting.
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