People’s Daily Online, Beijing, July 18 (Reporter Yu Lu) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources that recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources allocated 468 million yuan in water disaster relief funds to support 10 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Guangdong to repair water damage work to ensure the safety of flood control.
According to reports, since the flood season this year, there have been many heavy rainfall processes in my country. Larger floods have occurred in the Pearl River, large floods have occurred in the Beijiang River, four numbered floods have occurred in the Xijiang River, and numbered floods have also occurred in the Xiangjiang and Ganjiang Rivers in the Yangtze River basin. Strong earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above, water conservancy projects were severely damaged by water and earthquakes, and the flood control situation was severe.
In this regard, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources quickly dispatched the disaster-affected situation in various places, studied the distribution plan of disaster relief funds in a timely manner, and issued water conservancy and disaster relief funds to support disaster relief work such as the restoration of water conservancy engineering facilities in the disaster-stricken areas, and restore flood control functions in a timely manner.
Li Guoying, deputy commander-in-chief of the National Defense General and Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that according to the forecast, during the “seven down and eight up” period, the Songhua River Basin, the Huai River Basin Yishusi and the rivers of the Shandong Peninsula, the Dawen River, a tributary of the Yellow River, and the Aksu River in Xinjiang may be Larger floods may occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Liaohe River, the Haihehe River, the Han and Chuhe Rivers, tributaries of the Yangtze River, and the Lancang River in Yunnan. Torrential floods.
“Relevant departments should immediately enter the working state of the critical period of flood control, and make preparations for the prevention and response of flood and drought disasters in the critical period of flood control. , Reservoirs will not collapse, important dykes will not breach, and important infrastructure will not be impacted by the ‘four no’ goals, and resolutely defend the bottom line of flood and drought disaster defense.” Li Guoying said.
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