A total of 41.859 million national disasters in August suffered a affair of 41.859 million people.

The Emergency Management Department held a press conference today (16th). The relevant person in charge introduced the national natural disaster and production safety situation in August.

1. Natural disaster situation in August

The Emergency Management Department, together with relevant member units of the National Disaster Reduction Commission, conducted a discussion analysis of the national natural disasters in August. In August, natural disasters across the country were dominated by drought and floods. Wind 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. In August, natural disasters in the country mainly showed the following characteristics:

First, the national average high temperature number has the largest period of history since 1961. Especially in the southern region, the high temperature has a wide range of high temperatures and strong extremes, and severe summer drought occurred in the Yangtze River Basin. 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.

2. Safety production situation in August

In August, the national safety production situation was relatively stable. A total of 1,886 production safety accidents occurred and 1558 deaths. There were no major accidents. The total number of accidents, the number of major accidents and major accidents, and the number of deaths decreased year -on -year. However, from the typical accidents that occur, some problems of problems are still reflected, highlighting as "three rebounds":

First, the major accidents in the mine have rebounded, major risk -related accidents occur, and there are many incidence of collapse, and illegal illegal issues such as concealment and stealing 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.

Source: CCTV News Client

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