Since July, heavy rains have occurred in China, and 2 floods have occurred in the Changjiang River, the upper reaches of the Jialing River, the upper reaches of the Fujiang River, the upper reaches of the Tuo River, the flood in the middle reaches of the Dadu River, the 1 floods in the Yellow River, and the oversea flood in some small and medium rivers. As of July 18th, 27 provinces (districts and cities) suffered floods and waterlogging disasters, resulting in 20 million 530 thousand people and 1 million 759 thousand hectares of crops. 54 people died, 8 disappeared, 23 thousand houses collapsed, and the direct economic loss was about 51 billion 600 million yuan.

       Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the president of the state and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attached great importance to the current flood situation and made important instructions. In recent years, heavy rainfall occurred in some parts of the country. Some rivers in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places appeared super warning water level, in some places, flood and waterlogging were serious, and some places caused landslides and other geological disasters. Damage, causing casualties and loss of property. Xi Jinping stressed that, at present, the flood, typhoon and other natural disasters occur more frequently. The Party committee and the government in the related areas should firmly establish the thought of the people centered, organize the work of disaster relief and disaster relief, minimize the casualties, properly arrange the lives of the affected people, and minimize the loss of the disaster. We should strengthen emergency duty, fully implement the responsibilities of work, and refine measures to ensure that disaster can be disposed of quickly. We should strengthen the monitoring and early warning of meteorological, flood, and geological hazards, focus on all kinds of key hidden danger areas, carry out the trawl type investigation, and strictly prevent the occurrence of all kinds of disasters and secondary disasters. The national defense general, the Ministry of natural resources, the Ministry of emergency management and other relevant departments should coordinate and coordinate the forces and resources of all parties, guide the local disaster relief and disaster relief work, and ensure the safety of the people's life and property and social stability.

       The disaster areas have started emergency response, actively co-ordinate planning, refine measures, scientific response, do a good job of dangerous patrol and rescue, water destruction facilities rush repair, personnel transfer resettlement and so on. The Ministry of national defense, the Ministry of natural resources and the Ministry of emergency management have sent a working group to the front line of flood control and urged local governments to carry out flood prevention, disaster relief and relief work.

       Source: People's daily