Xinhua News Agency, Shenyang, December 24Topic: China’s active response to extreme cold weather demonstrates the warmth and intensity of people’s livelihood
Xinhua News Agency reporters Sun Renbin, Ding Feibai, Luo Fei
At 6 o’clock in the morning, Pan Meng got off the snowplow and took a short rest. Starting at 3 a.m., this sanitation driver working in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province drove a snow plow truck to clear the thick snow on the road.
On this night, a total of 4,104 sanitation personnel in Jinzhou City participated in clearing snow on roads. “The snow is falling heavily, and if we wait for it to stop before sweeping, it will definitely be too late.” Wang Yingchao, director of the Jinzhou Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, said, “We are clearing while we are snowing, and we are clearing and transporting at the same time. A total of 392 snow removal machines and vehicles have been dispatched. After working for two consecutive days and nights, the main road finally saw light.”
Recently, due to the widespread cold wave weather, temperatures in most parts of China have plummeted, and the daily minimum temperatures at some national weather stations have exceeded historical extremes.
According to the National Meteorological Center, from the 21st to the 24th, the daily minimum temperature or average temperature in the northeastern part of Northwest China, central and western Inner Mongolia, North China, Northeast China, Huanghuai and most areas in the south was more than 5 degrees Celsius lower than the same period in history, and was lower in some areas. Above 7 degrees Celsius.
The severe cold weather brought about by this strong cold wave has affected transportation, power supply, community heating, and people’s production and life in some areas. In order to effectively deal with the extremely cold weather, prepare for disasters and ensure the safety and warmth of the people through the winter, various localities have actively adopted a series of effective measures.
Recently, the Office of China’s National Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management organized relevant departments and key provinces to hold special discussions and dispatches on the prevention and response to low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters, emphasizing the need to effectively strengthen monitoring, research and judgment and early warning issuance, and pay close attention to low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters In response to the changing weather situation, we will make every effort to provide emergency rescue and people’s livelihood protection, arrange materials and equipment in key areas, key objects, and weak links in advance, improve the supply capacity of coal, electricity, oil and gas, and do a good job in ensuring energy security and warmth and supply.
Shenyang City, Liaoning Province issued the No. 3 heating dispatch order in advance, requiring each heating unit to release secondary network return water temperature data every 2 hours to ensure the quality of heating. At the same time, for kindergartens, schools, nursing homes, old communities and areas with concentrated demands, local operating parameters should be appropriately improved to ensure that heating is not affected by cooling.
On December 19, the staff of Shenyang Dongtai Heat Source conducted an inspection of the hot water boiler.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Wei
“When winter just started a while ago, the temperature at home was a little over 21 degrees Celsius, and now it’s almost 23 degrees Celsius. It’s getting colder, and the heating company has turned the heating up even hotter.” said Wang Liming, a citizen of Hunnan District, Shenyang City.
In addition to strengthening community heating guarantees, many places in China have adopted a variety of snow removal and anti-coagulation measures to reduce the impact of extremely cold weather on traffic and ensure transportation and mass travel.
The Yalin Railway, which passes through the Greater Khingan Mountains, is 441 kilometers long and connects Hulunbuir City in Inner Mongolia and many places in Heilongjiang Province. It is an important channel for people to travel and transport materials along the line.
Recently, the lowest temperature along the Yalin Railway has dropped below minus 40 degrees Celsius, which has affected railway driving safety. The local area has strengthened regular inspections of railways, and maintenance workers in orange overalls can be seen at any time along the line using machinery to blow away snow on the rails. “We also need to check whether the rails have any problems such as ‘bulging’ or breakage in the extremely cold weather.” said Wang Fuquan, a maintenance worker who has worked on this railway line for 25 years.
The relevant person in charge of the Passenger Transport Scheduling Department of the China Railway Group Transportation Scheduling Command Center said that the railway system will strengthen early warning analysis and judgment, and take preventive measures such as speed reduction and suspension for lines that are greatly affected by rain, snow and freezing disasters, and at the same time strengthen Inspect line equipment and provide passenger services, and be prepared for emergency rescue at any time.
Recently, the snow depth at the National Basic Meteorological Station in Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province reached 74 centimeters, breaking the record for the largest snow depth in Shandong. The city takes “ensuring smooth roads during commuting hours” as its top priority for snow clearing, and keeps snow clearing 24 hours a day.
The impact of this round of low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters on southern China continues to increase. Many provinces are actively responding to the low-temperature rain, snow, freezing and other conditions that have occurred, strengthening residents’ livelihood protection such as “vegetable baskets”, and helping people in need stay warm through the winter.
In the past few days, community cadres and volunteers are busy visiting more than 3,300 people with special needs in Baiyanglin Street, Qixingguan District, Bijie City, Guizhou Province. This is the largest single relocation site in Guizhou Province.
There are 4,293 tons of rice, 910 tons of edible oil, and 208 tons of eggs, which can last for more than 7 days without replenishment… This is the city’s 8 wholesale markets, 22 farmers’ markets, and 26 large-scale enterprises recently dispatched by the Bijie City Commerce Bureau. Supermarket data.
Shu Jueting, spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, recently stated that in response to the recent rain, snow and freezing weather, the Ministry of Commerce will organize various localities to further improve the emergency supply guarantee plan, and actively organize and transport sources of goods, give full play to the role of the joint guarantee and supply mechanism, and strengthen meat, Docking production and sales of vegetables and other products.
In view of the characteristics of Guizhou’s wide distribution of power supply areas and large mountainous areas, China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Company is on duty 24 hours a day to ensure electricity for people’s livelihood.
On December 20, transmission line inspection workers of State Grid Benxi Power Supply Company organized equipment at No. 175 Tower of the 500 kV Fucheng Line in preparation for inspection.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pan Yulong
Ensuring agricultural production is also an important task for various places to deal with extreme cold weather. In order to alleviate the shortage of forage and ensure the safety of animal husbandry production in extremely cold weather, the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Science and Technology Bureau of the Ewenki Autonomous Banner of Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region launched the 2023 Central Agricultural Disaster Prevention and Reduction Fund Subsidy to farmers with qualified breeding scales. , provide policy subsidies. At present, the entire banner has distributed 7.74 million yuan in subsidy funds, benefiting nearly 1,000 herdsmen.
“We have more than 10 cows and 30 sheep at home. This summer has been relatively dry, and the grass in the pasture is not enough for the livestock to survive the winter. Now that we have received the pasture subsidy, we can buy enough forage, which has alleviated our financial pressure.” Ewenki Wu Zhijian, a herdsman from Yilangacha, Daur Ethnic Township, Bayantala, Ethnic Autonomous Banner, said. (Participating in the interview and writing: Yu Jia, Li Fan, Li Zhihao)
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