Frequent torrential rains in South China still keep Guangdong on guard against secondary disasters

Original title: the rainstorm weather in the south will continue to remind relevant departments to guard against secondary disasters.

Yesterday (8), rescuers launched a search and rescue at the scene. At about 5: 00 on the same day, a landslide occurred in Kaishan Township, Taining County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, and the number of people missing increased to 41. Photo taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Guojun

Continuous rainfall in the south has led to landslides, landslides and landslides in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, according to News and newspaper Abstracts of Voice of China. In the next two days, the weather of heavy to torrential rain in the south and local torrential rain will continue. The Central Meteorological Observatory upgraded the rainstorm warning to yellow last night (8).

According to the forecast of the Central Meteorological Observatory, from the 8th to 10th, eastern and southern Guizhou, eastern and southern Jiangnan, and South China will still maintain the weather process of heavy to torrential rain and local torrential rain, accompanied by short-term heavy precipitation and local wind and hail. The maximum hourly rain intensity may reach 30 mm to 50 mm, the local area can even reach 50 mm to 70 mm, and the accumulated rainfall will reach 50 mm to 120 mm.

Zhang Fanghua, chief forecaster of the Central Meteorological Observatory: it is expected that there will be a relatively obvious rainfall in most parts of the south from the night of the 8th to the day of the 10th. Heavy rain will generally occur in southeastern Guizhou, south-central Hunan, central and southern Jiangxi, southern Zhejiang, central and western Fujian, most of Guangdong and north-central Guangxi, and heavy to torrential rain in some areas. This precipitation process basically ends during the daytime on the 10th, and the next precipitation is expected to be around the 15th.

Zhang Fanghua warned that the public should avoid entering more dangerous areas such as mountains and river valleys as far as possible. Relevant departments should continue to pay attention to secondary disasters such as landslides and local torrents caused by heavy precipitation, and pay attention to preventing disasters caused by thunder and lightning and local thunderstorms and gales. (CCTV News reporter Zhu Hongyuan from Beijing on May 9)

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Xi Jinping asked for all-out search and rescue when the landslide hit the construction site in Sanming, Fujian.

Xi Jinping gave important instructions to the rescue and rescue work of landslides in Keshan Township, Taining County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, asking him to make every effort to organize search and rescue and do his best to reduce casualties. Li Keqiang gave instructions.

At about 5 o'clock yesterday, a landslide occurred in Kaishan Township, Taining County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, resulting in the destruction of an office building at the Chi Tan Hydropower Plant and the burial of a residential shed at the construction site of a project, Voice of China News and newspaper Abstracts reported. As of 08:30 last night, 41 people had been missing, including 35 from the 16th Bureau of China Water Conservancy and Hydropower and 6 from the 12th Bureau of China Water Conservancy and Hydropower.

After the disaster, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to it. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, state president, and chairman of the Central military Commission, immediately issued an important directive, demanding that Fujian Province and relevant departments promptly organize forces to carry out rescue and rescue, make every effort to search for trapped and missing people, and do their best to reduce casualties. and properly do a good job in the treatment of the wounded and the pacification of relatives of the casualties. Strengthen monitoring and forecast and pay attention to scientific rescue to prevent the occurrence of secondary disasters. The relevant departments of the State Council should guide localities and enterprises to strengthen the investigation of all kinds of disasters and hidden dangers in production safety, strengthen the implementation of responsibilities, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

Li Keqiang, member of the standing Committee of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and premier of the State Council, issued instructions demanding that all efforts should be made to organize the search and rescue of the buried and the wounded, and the Ministry of Land and Resources should immediately lead the establishment of a working group of the State Council to rush to the scene to guide local rescue work. The relevant departments of the State General Administration of Prevention and Control should guide and help all localities to further do a good job in the investigation of hidden dangers of all kinds of disasters, and the General Administration of Safety Supervision should supervise and urge the strengthening of responsibilities and measures for production safety to effectively ensure the safety of the masses.

According to Xi Jinping's instructions and Li Keqiang's request, the working group of the State Council rushed to the scene to guide the rescue work, and the main responsible comrades of the Fujian provincial party committee and provincial government have been in command at the scene, and the rescue work is being carried out in an orderly and tense manner. (CCTV News reporter Ma Chuang, Beijing, May 9)