Drought Relief in some areas of Henan, Shaanxi and Hebei provinces and regions spare no effort to fight drought and protect Autumn

According to the website of the Office of the State Flood Control and drought Relief headquarters, recently, there has been relatively heavy rainfall in the eastern part of Northwest China, North China and Huang-Huai, with an average rainfall of 29 mm in Shaanxi, 16 mm in Henan, 28 mm in Shanxi, 16 mm in Shandong, 16 mm in Hebei and 19 mm in Anhui. The rainfall process is very beneficial to alleviate the drought.

The drought in central and southern Shaanxi, northwest Henan and southern Hebei has been alleviated, and the drought in Anhui Province has been relieved, but there has been little rain in the arid area of north-central Hubei, and the drought has developed somewhat. As of August 7, the drought-affected area of crops in China was 64.26 million mu (an average of 120 million mu for the same period of many years), 12.47 million mu less than that before rainfall, including 6 million mu in Henan Province, 2.97 million mu in Shaanxi Province and 2.6 million mu in Hebei Province. There are 1.96 million people and 2.57 million head of large livestock in China suffering from drinking water difficulties due to drought (an average of 10.11 million people and 7.22 million heads in the same period of many years), mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and other places.

Party committees and governments at all levels in arid areas attach great importance to the current drought relief work and go all out to organize the broad masses of cadres and masses to carry out drought relief and disaster reduction. Henan, Shandong and Inner Mongolia provinces (regions) recently launched drought relief Ⅲ emergency response, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces launched drought relief Ⅳ emergency response. All localities in arid areas have scientifically dispatched water conservancy projects and adopted various measures such as cross-regional water diversion, well drilling, water drawing and water delivery, and the construction of emergency water source projects, so as to ensure the safety of drinking water for people in urban and rural areas and strive to ensure water for agricultural production. Various localities have organized a large number of government cadres and technical personnel to rush to the front line of drought relief at the grass-roots level, command from the front, contract work in pieces, and earnestly grasp, grasp, and grasp all kinds of drought relief measures. According to statistics, since the beginning of summer, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces (regions) have invested a total of 9.12 million drought-resistant workers, temporarily solved the drinking water difficulties of 1.68 million people, and irrigated 170 million mu of drought-resistant water.

In the process of fighting the summer drought, the Henan drought Relief Service team opened a drought service hotline and made a promise that "if the masses have difficulties in fighting drought, please find a drought relief service team." more than 80 drought relief service teams in the province took the initiative to provide water delivery, well drilling and water search services for the masses. Using the drought relief equipment purchased by the central government since 2011, 87 county-level drought relief teams in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region have drilled more than 760 new electromechanical wells and repaired more than 3800 electromechanical wells for herdsmen, temporarily solving the problem of drinking water for 30, 000 people and 150000 head of large livestock. 52 county-level drought relief teams in Hubei Province have successively dispatched 1700 drought relief personnel, carried 1520 sets of machinery and equipment, irrigated 300000 mu of farmland and solved the problem of drinking water for more than 20, 000 people. According to statistics, since the beginning of summer, drought relief service organizations at all levels in arid areas have invested a total of 28000 drought relief personnel, 50,000 drought relief equipment, 30,000 water trucks, 13000 emergency wells, 100000 sets of maintenance and lease of drought relief equipment, and more than 80,000 tons of water. More than 10 million mu of drought-resistant irrigation area has been completed, and the drinking water difficulties of more than 200,000 people due to drought have been temporarily solved.