Emergency Management Department: In August, 94 people's direct economic losses were 42.97 billion yuan due to disasters and disappearances of the country

Cover Journalist Dai Rui

On September 16, the Emergency Management Department held a September routine press conference. Cover reporters learned from the press conference that in August, natural disasters across the country were mainly drought and flood disasters, and hail, typhoons, earthquakes, geological disasters, and forest fires also occurred to varying degrees. Various natural disasters caused a total of 4.1859 million people. They disappeared 94 people due to disasters and 42.97 billion yuan in direct economic losses.

Emergency Management Department. Data map

According to Shen Zhanli, a spokesman for the emergency management department, the national natural disasters in August mainly showed the following characteristics: First, the national average high temperature number has the largest period since 1961, especially in the southern region. In severe summer drought. The second is that the national rainfall is "north and south". The flood conditions of the Dajiang River are generally stable. Third, there are five regional strong convective weather process in the country, which has declined significantly compared with the same period in recent years, but the lightning strike incident is more prominent. Fourth, the generation and landing of typhoons are small. Typhoon No. 7 "Mulan" and Typhoon No. 9 landing in the coastal areas of Guangdong are conducive to alleviating local drought. Fifth, affected by extreme high temperature weather, the national forest fire is significantly more than the same period of the same year. It is mainly concentrated in Chongqing, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places.

Shen Zhanli said that in August, the national production safety situation was relatively stable. A total of 1,886 production safety accidents occurred and 1558 deaths. decline. However, from the typical accidents that occur, some problems are still reflected, highlighting as the "three rebounds": First, a major accident rebound in the mine sector, frequent risk -related accidents, many collapse accidents, deliberately concealed reports and stolen stolen reports and stolen. Illegal illegal issues are prominent. The second is that the construction industry has a large accident rebound, exposing the problem of not being inhumory and false in the investigation of hidden risks. In some areas, the lessons of accidents are not profound. Similar accidents have repeatedly occurred. Third, the water traffic accident rebounds, the ship's sinking accidents, and there are many people involved. It is necessary to highly be alert to the risk of collision of commercial fishing vessels to strictly prevent the safety risks of water leisure and entertainment activities.

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