The National Defense Federation targets Sichuan and Chongqing to start the fourth level of flood prevention level emergency response

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 28. On the 28th, reporters learned from the Emergency Management Department that according to the relevant provisions of the "National Flood Control and Drought Resistance Emergency Plan", the state defense decided on the basis of maintaining Shaanxi and Gansu Flood Prevention Level 4. In response to the emergency response of Sichuan and Chongqing to the fourth level of flood control, urging Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Chongqing and Chongqing to prevent the rush of drought prevention and floods, and effectively protect the safety of the people's lives and property.

According to the forecast of the meteorological department, the rainfall in West China will continue to rain in the next ten days, and the number of rainfall days will be large. The cumulative rainfall will be turned from a significant part of the previous period to 40 % to 1 times more than the same period of the year. Drought flooding may occur. Since July, most areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, and Chongqing have continued to have high temperature and drought, soil and loose water loss or lumping into hardening, and the risk of sturdy disasters increased.

In response to the recent heavy rainfall in the West China region, the State General Office and Emergency Management Department emphasized that it is necessary to compress the responsibilities of actual flood prevention and drought resistance, strengthen early warning and emergency response linkage, highlight the prevention and response of weak links, and decisively transfer the dangerous areas in advance. Adhering to flood prevention and drought resistance, the drought does not alleviate the region to continue to strengthen the coordination of drought resistance.

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