Li Guoying, deputy commander of the National Defense Command and Minister of Water Resources, said on the 20th that according to forecasts, in the next three days, there will be heavy rain and floods in the Beisanhe, Daqing, Ziya, and Zhangwei rivers in the Haihe River Basin. The Ministry of Water Resources actively deploys relevant defense work to strictly guard against storms and floods to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.
On the morning of the 20th, the Ministry of Water Resources held a special meeting to discuss the deployment of rainstorm and flood defense work in the Haihe River Basin, and analyzed and judged the rain and flood situation in the Haihe River Basin. The meeting deployed more than ten key measures: intensive forecasting, rolling forecasting, fine forecasting, forecasting information directly to the Haihe River Defense and Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei water conservancy departments; according to the total amount of flood forecast, make solid preparations for flood storage in controlled reservoirs; To ensure the absolute safety of the urban area of Beijing, ensure the absolute safety of Beijing’s urban area; do a good job in the defense of small and medium-sized reservoirs to ensure that the dams will not collapse; do a good job in the prevention of local heavy rainfall and mountain torrent disasters, and prepare for the evacuation of people in dangerous areas in advance; The defense of the middle route project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project focuses on high-risk areas such as water supply channels and river crossings; formulates a special dispatch plan, strengthens flood control dispatch, and ensures the absolute safety of Xiong’an New Area; completes the Baiyangdian flood control dispatch in advance to ensure the absolute safety of the Baiyangdian embankment; Flood defense of small and medium-sized rivers in the eastern foothills, evacuation of people in dangerous areas in advance; do a good job of river embankment defense, strengthen river flow forecast and early warning, and strictly prevent embankment breaches; early warning information directly reaches the responsible persons for flood control and the public in the affected area, ensuring flood control in Beijing, Shijiazhuang and other cities Safety.
It is understood that the Ministry of Water Resources has launched a level-IV flood defense emergency response in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and sent three working groups to the three provinces and cities to guide the localities to do a good job in storm flood defense.