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People's online review: enhance disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, and promote the modernization of emergency management

——The second series of "doing a good job in flood control and drought relief"

Jiang Meng
April 23, 2024 13:03 | Source: People's Daily Online - Viewpoint Channel
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Recently, heavy rain occurred in Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, local heavy rain. In the face of complicated rainfall situation, relevant regions must firmly establish bottom line thinking and limit thinking, do a solid job in flood control, firmly grasp the initiative of flood control, minimize disaster losses, and ensure social stability and people's well-being.

To improve the ability of disaster prevention and mitigation, we should strengthen the main responsibilities of Party committees and governments at all levels. Responsibility is weightier than Mount Tai. Party and government leaders at all levels should take a cautious attitude of "always reassuring", be conscientious in the flood control work, and command ahead in the critical stage of disaster response. At the same time, we will strengthen overall planning and coordination, use joint consultation and scheduling, ensure effective and smooth command linkage, fully guarantee emergency response, and live up to the people's great trust with practical actions.

To improve the ability of disaster prevention and mitigation, we need to improve and effectively implement the emergency plan. In view of the problems faced by the flood control, we should scientifically set up and coordinate the rescue, communication guarantee, transportation and other work, strengthen the effective rescue and disaster relief measures for all businesses, and strive to make up for the weak points and weaknesses, so as to ensure that when a dangerous situation occurs, we can pull out, catch up, and win.

To improve the ability of disaster prevention and mitigation, we should strengthen monitoring, forecasting and early warning. The meteorological, water conservancy, geological and other departments should closely monitor the flood situation, pay close attention to the key periods such as long-term rainfall and short-term local heavy rainfall, pay special attention to the reservoir area, tourist attractions, construction sites and other key areas, and strictly prevent landslide, debris flow and other geological disasters. Timely issue early warning, make overall use of scientific and technological means such as the Internet and mobile communication tools and traditional means such as emergency broadcasting and loudspeakers, especially strengthen the dissemination of disaster early warning information in remote mountainous areas and densely populated areas, so as to ensure that early warning information is truly door-to-door. More importantly, we should play the role of the "call response" mechanism to ensure that the primary flood control responsible person is on duty at the critical moment, effectively linked up from top to bottom, and handled safely and effectively.

Ensuring the safety of people's lives and property is the core of flood prevention and disaster reduction. All localities should decisively and orderly organize the transfer of people in dangerous areas, and ensure that the transfer should be carried out early, fast and fully. We should also focus on the elderly and left behind children, and do everything possible to protect the health of vulnerable groups. It is also necessary to strengthen the management of resettlement sites, properly solve the basic living problems of the people, and ensure that the transferred personnel have food, clothing, clean water, safe accommodation, medical services, etc. Adhering to the people as the center is the fundamental principle of relevant work.

Fighting against natural disasters is an eternal subject for human survival and development. Flood control has a long way to go. We should constantly sum up experience from the practice of resisting natural disasters, integrate resources, coordinate forces, improve the system, effectively improve the comprehensive ability of the whole society to resist natural disasters, actively promote the modernization of China's emergency management system and ability, and ensure the tranquility of rivers, the normal operation of society, and the peace of the people.

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