All regions and departments are fully committed to flood control and disaster relief.
Cctv news(News Network): In the past few days, Henan and other places have continued to experience heavy rainfall, and the flood control situation is very severe. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made important instructions on flood control and disaster relief work, demanding that the safety of people’s lives and property should always be the first priority, and all flood control and disaster relief measures should be carefully implemented. All localities and departments have fully implemented the important instructions of the General Secretary, and party committees and governments at all levels have responded urgently, organizing forces to prevent floods and provide disaster relief and resettle the affected people; The central departments responded quickly, deploying rescue forces and materials to help the front line, and restoring production and living order such as electricity and communications; The people’s soldiers bravely carry heavy burdens and relay around the clock to rescue the trapped people; The cadres and the masses in the disaster-stricken areas are United as one, and the people of the whole country watch and help each other, rallying a powerful force for flood control and disaster relief.
On July 22, the rainfall in Zhengzhou temporarily stopped, the urban drainage work was being stepped up, and road traffic was gradually recovering. According to the current flood situation, the emergency response to flood control in Zhengzhou was reduced from Grade I to Grade III at 1: 20 this afternoon.
In the past two days, residents of Yingbin Road Street in Zhengzhou City were trapped by water. The Street Party Working Committee temporarily organized 16 party member vanguard teams to recruit more than 20 engineering forklifts within its jurisdiction, and rescued and transported more than 1,100 trapped people continuously. Today, as the accumulated water recedes, they undertake the heavy responsibility of removing silt and garbage and comprehensively killing them.
To implement the requirements of the General Secretary, all parts of Henan stepped up assistance and relief work for the affected people. In Mihe Town, gongyi city, Zhengzhou, the reporter saw that local bridges were being set up, and traffic was being restored.
Early this morning, a premature baby in Xinxiang Maternal and Child Health Hospital needed ventilator support. With the help of firefighters, the head nurse of the hospital successfully transferred the child to the hospital.
In the continuous heavy rainfall, many places in Henan are in danger, and the people’s soldiers are fighting day and night in the front line of flood control and disaster relief. By 17: 00 on July 22nd, the Central Theater had dispatched 44 batches of rescue echelons, more than 1,100 rescue vehicles and more than 170 search and rescue boats, and kept more than 8,000 troops and armed police officers and soldiers on the front line for emergency rescue.
On July 20th, the water level of Guojiazui Reservoir in Zhengzhou rose, and the safety of more than 100,000 people downstream was affected. After two days of rescue by officers and men of the People’s Liberation Army and Armed Police, the water level dropped by nearly 10 meters this morning, and the danger was temporarily lifted. Now, the rescue team is stepping up the dredging of the spillway.
More than 5,600 people were trapped in Fuwai Huazhong Cardiovascular Hospital located in Zhengdong New District of Zhengzhou City due to the rising water level in the upper reaches of Zhengzhou reservoir area. According to the arrangement of the command post for flood prevention and rescue in the Central Theater, starting from 9: 00 pm on the 21st, the Central Theater dispatched the 83rd Army, a certain unit of the Rocket Army, Henan Armed Police Corps and militia reserve officers and soldiers to carry rescue equipment into the hospital to transfer patients.
With the rain moving to the north of Henan, the troops in the war zone have gone to 12 places including Tangyin, Qixian, Weihui and Qixian to carry out their tasks.
The National Defense General and Emergency Management Department mobilized all kinds of rescue forces to fully support flood control and disaster relief in Henan. Since yesterday, seven provinces’ fire rescue forces with cross-regional reinforcements have launched rescue operations in four cities in Henan Province at the same time. By 3 pm on the 22nd, 928 people were rescued and 3,216 people were evacuated.
The Ministry of Water Resources continued to hold emergency consultations, gave on-site guidance on the dangerous situation disposal of Guojiazui Reservoir and Changzhuang Reservoir in Zhengzhou, timely issued the first red warning of mountain torrents this year, and sent seven working groups to guide the rainstorm and flood prevention work in Henan and other places.
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) deployed central enterprises to do their best to ensure emergency supply and prevent potential risks. Many central enterprises quickly mobilized their forces to rush to the disaster areas in the fields of electricity, communications, oil and gas, and construction.
The Ministry of Commerce launched an emergency plan to guide local governments to carry out flood control and supply protection work, and arranged large-scale backbone supply protection enterprises to strengthen dispatching and provide emergency support.
China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission issued a notice, requiring local regulatory authorities and banking and insurance institutions to ensure the smooth flow of financial services and the financial needs of the affected people and enterprises for emergency withdrawal.
The Ministry of Transport urgently launched a Class II emergency response to traffic and flood control, and together with the Ministry of Finance, urgently arranged 15 million yuan of highway emergency funds; Send personnel to Henan urgently to guide and do a good job in rushing to ensure communication, operation scheduling and transportation service guarantee.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Finance allocated 20 million yuan of agricultural production disaster relief funds to support Henan’s agricultural production disaster relief and post-disaster production recovery.
State Grid mobilized 181 power generation vehicles from 14 provinces as a whole, and rushed to various cities in Henan to support flood control, emergency repair and power supply.
Recently, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a notice requesting local civil affairs departments to effectively protect the basic livelihood of people suffering from disasters, do a good job in disaster prevention and avoidance for key groups such as left-behind elderly people and left-behind children, and prevent poverty and return to poverty due to disasters to the maximum extent.
The National Health and Wellness appointed an expert group to rush to Henan to support and guide the local efforts to carry out emergency medical rescue and do a good job in post-disaster health and epidemic prevention.