Chen Lei presided over a meeting of the National Chamber of Commerce to arrange Typhoon Swan and a new round of heavy rainfall preparedness work

On August 17, Chen Lei, deputy commander of the National Defense General and Minister of Water Resources, presided over a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to analyze and judge the development situation of the 15th typhoon "Swan" and the 16th typhoon "Eshaani" and a new round of heavy rainfall process, and arranged the recent heavy rainfall and typhoon defense work. Liu Ning, Secretary General of the State Defense and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources attended the meeting.

Conference analysis, there are currently two typhoons in the northwest Pacific Ocean surface active development. The 15th super typhoon Swan is located on the ocean surface about 2120 kilometers east of Taiwan at 14:00 on the 17th, with a central wind force of 16. It is expected to move to the west-north direction at the speed of about 25 kilometers per hour, and the intensity will gradually strengthen. The strongest typhoon can reach more than 17, and may brush or land in the eastern coast of Taiwan around August 22. Do not rule out landing Zhejiang Min coastal, deep inland northward possibility. Typhoon Eshani, the 16th typhoon, was located on the ocean surface about 3,970 kilometers southeast of Taiwan at 1400 hours on Sunday with a central wind force of 13. It is expected to move westward at the speed of 10 to 15 kilometers per hour, and then turn northwest. It will approach the southern waters of Japan in the future and have no impact on domestic waters. At the same time, there will be a large-scale mobile heavy precipitation process from west to east in the eastern southwest to Jianghuai and northern Jiangnan from the 17th to the 20th. The rain area will cover Sichuan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, with cumulative area rainfall of 40 ~ 80 mm, with some areas reaching 80 ~ 120 mm.

According to the meeting, in the previous stage, the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian, Jiangnan and Jianghuai were hit by "Soudelor". The soil water content in some areas was saturated, the water level of rivers, lakes and reservoirs was high, and some water conservancy projects were seriously damaged and yet to be repaired. Typhoon Swan is heading toward China's southeast coast again, and some areas may be hit again, increasing the difficulty of defense. From 17th to 20th, a new round of heavy rainfall is likely to cause flash floods, landslides, debris flows and other disasters, and the flood and typhoon prevention situation is not optimistic.

Chen Lei stressed that at present, the whole country is still in the critical period of flood and typhoon prevention, the relevant river basin prevention and prevention of provinces and cities should be highly responsible for the safety of people's lives and property, advance planning, early deployment, and effectively do a good job of typhoon "Swan" and recent heavy rainfall prevention work.

First, we need to do a good job of swan defense in advance. Due to the influence of "Swan" and "Eshani" typhoons, there are many uncertain factors such as the path and intensity of typhoons in the later period, which increase the difficulty of prevention, and the defense work should not be underestimated. We should start from the least unfavorable situation of typhoon landing northward, and deal with it from the worst combination of high tide, strong wind, heavy rain and wild waves. We should put all kinds of work in front, grasp in front and do in front. We should closely monitor typhoon trends, timely issue notices, timely convene video conferences and chambers of commerce in different places, and organize relevant provinces and cities to forecast and warn in advance. We will promptly evacuate people from low-lying areas prone to waterlogging and mountain floods, and other dangerous areas, so as to ensure people's lives are safe, and do our utmost to reduce disaster losses.

Second, we will work hard to prevent mountain flood disasters. Since the beginning of this year, 1,091 counties across the country have issued 6.96 million early warning messages using the monitoring and early warning system and the system of mass detection and mass prevention, evacuating 2.66 million people and effectively reducing casualties. However, there are still some local mountain torrents that have caused casualties and must be paid close attention to. Local governments should further fulfill their responsibility for mountain flood disaster prevention. Mountain and hilly areas in northwest and southwest China, in particular, should respond well to extreme sudden heavy rainfall, give full play to non-engineering measures for mountain flood disaster prevention and control, refine and improve defense measures, release early warning information in advance, transfer people from threatened areas in a timely manner, and do a good job in the resettlement and management of people, so as to avoid casualties.

Third, we will do our best to prevent a new round of heavy rainfall. Recently, there was a new heavy rainfall process from west to east. Prevention commanders at all levels should strengthen emergency duty, adhere to the 24-hour on-duty and leadership system, strengthen on-duty forces, closely monitor weather changes, strengthen joint consultation between meteorological and hydrological departments, timely forecast, early warning, scientific dispatch of water conservancy projects, prepare enough supplies for emergency teams, strengthen patrol and defense and emergency rescue, transfer personnel in dangerous areas in advance, and ensure the safety of the flood season.

Four, we should plan in advance the operation of reservoir water storage. Since the beginning of this year, the total precipitation of the country is slightly less than usual, and some areas have insufficient water storage. All localities should scientifically analyze the rainwater situation and the inflow situation in the later period, and on the premise of ensuring the flood control safety of reservoirs, make full use of stormwater resources, optimize the allocation of water resources, scientifically dispatch the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the upstream reservoir group, the Hanjiang reservoir group, the Xiaolangdi of the Yellow River and the major major reservoirs in the north such as Panjiakou, Miyun, Gangnan and Huangbizhuang to block and store as much as possible. To provide water source security for the later period of water, to ensure the people's living water and irrigation in autumn, winter and spring needs.

(From the official website of the Ministry of Water Resources, PRC)