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Extreme Weather Response: Freezing Rain and Snow in Multiple Provinces

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 22: Recently, heavy rain and snow have occurred in many places across the country, and temperatures have dropped significantly. The Central Meteorological Observatory has issued yellow warnings for low temperatures for several days. Reporters learned from Guizhou, Henan, Hunan, Jilin and other provinces that in response to the freezing rain, snow, and freezing weather, local governments have further investigated the needy groups and taken effective measures to relieve local people in need and ensure they have a warm winter.

Freezing rain and snow, many provinces actively respond

The recent persistent low temperatures, freezing and snowfall have brought challenges to heat supply, power transmission, and agricultural production.

The Central Meteorological Observatory will continue to issue a low temperature yellow warning at 06:00 on December 22: It is expected that from 08:00 on December 22 to 08:00 on the 25th, the daily minimum temperature may be or The average temperature is more than 5℃ lower than the same period in history.

On December 15, farmers in Yangliuxue Town, Bincheng District, Binzhou City, Shandong Province were clearing snow from vegetable greenhouses (drone photo). Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Chu Baorui)

The reporter learned that in order to properly accommodate the needy people to have a warm winter, many local government departments have adopted measures such as distributing materials, ensuring power supply and heating, and resettlement care, and implemented classified policies to improve the level of refined assistance and assistance, and make every effort to ensure that the people have a warm winter.

After the Anhui Provincial Department of Emergency Management urgently allocated 30,000 pieces of provincial disaster relief materials on December 15, the Anhui Provincial Department of Finance, in conjunction with the Provincial Emergency Department, urgently allocated 50.84 million yuan in central and provincial winter and spring temporary living difficulties relief funds, mainly used for To support and help the disaster-stricken counties (cities, districts) in the province to provide basic living security for the disaster-stricken people this winter and next spring.

In Henan, the Anyang Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau has carried out a special rescue operation of “Sending Warmth in Cold Winter”, guiding the city’s rescue management agencies to adhere to the linkage between the city and county (district), keep the rescue hotline open 24 hours a day, reserve in advance and distribute emergency cold-proof materials as needed.

No one should be left out in assisting needy groups, and all localities should do a solid job in providing life assistance to families living on minimum living allowances, homeless people and beggars.

In Shandong, Dezhou City has opened welfare lottery sales stations, large-scale rescue stations and other places as temporary shelters to facilitate homeless people begging and temporarily trapped people to seek help nearby.

The Hunan Provincial Civil Affairs Department, in conjunction with the public security, urban management and other departments, took the lead in street patrols and rescue work, focusing on conducting “draw-net” inspections in areas where vagrants and beggars tend to gather in the streets, such as stations, commercial streets, bridges and culverts, etc. Beggars and people who are temporarily trapped are “rescued as much as possible”.

Relieve worries and provide warmth in cold winter

Preventing and dealing with low temperatures, rain, snow and freezing, people’s livelihood is no small matter, and the branches and leaves are always related to feelings.

In Anshan Village, Dashui Yi and Miao Buyi Township, Baili Dujuan Management Area, Bijie City, Guizhou Province, local village cadres contacted 40 tons of coal to ensure villagers’ heating. “The government has subsidized 2,000 kilograms of coal, so we don’t have to worry about heating in the winter,” said Fan Jun, a villager in Anshan Village.

Zhang Weijiang, the first secretary of Anshan Village, said that for the elderly with limited mobility and families without labor, party members, cadres, and volunteers in the village help load and deliver coal and deliver it to people’s homes in a timely manner.

On December 15, party members, cadres and volunteers from Hua County, Anyang City, Henan Province distributed rice, noodles, oil and other daily necessities to people in need in the community. (Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Huaxian County Party Committee, Anyang City, Henan Province)

Under a bridge in Ningxiang City, Hunan Province, despite the cold wind, rescue station staff were delivering cold-warming supplies to homeless people. “These are cotton-padded clothes and quilts. The supply package also includes instant noodles, rice pudding and rescue guidance cards. If you need help, just call our rescue station and there will be someone to answer it 24 hours a day.”

“Have the houses of the needy people collapsed under the weight of snow? Are they protected from the cold, food and clothing? These are our primary concerns.” said Sun Nan, deputy mayor of Chuwang Town, Neihuang County, Anyang City, Henan Province. The reporter learned from the Chuwang Town Government of Neihuang County, Anyang City, Henan Province on December 20 that Chuwang Town, Neihuang County, conducts inspections and visits to key groups such as subsistence allowance recipients, elderly people living alone, severely poor disabled people, etc. in the area, and issued a warning about travel in cold wave weather. , fire and electricity and other safety tips.

Keeping warm and supplying food, keeping people’s livelihood warm

The reporter visited the villages and learned that relevant departments in many places focused on keeping key groups warm and ensuring food supply, and exchanged the “hardship index” for the “temperature index” of the masses in winter.

In Yongsheng Village, Huifa Street, Dehui City, Jilin Province, Hou Zhenfa, a household that has been lifted out of poverty, has lost the ability to work due to physical disability. Before winter this year, the village brought enough straw bales from the ground to last the whole winter into his yard. Yang Qingde, secretary of the party branch of the village, said that the village provides free straw fuel to households lifted out of poverty in winter and helps install plastic sheds to ensure that everyone stays warm during the winter.

On December 17, employees from China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Company went to Hongyang Ten Thousand Mu Grassland in Taijiang County to conduct an ice inspection inspection of the 10 kV power line at the highest point, strengthen equipment operation and maintenance, and ensure the safe operation of the power grid. (Photo provided by China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Company)

“I was afraid that there would be no power tonight, but I didn’t expect you to come so soon.” At 13:00 on December 14, emergency repair personnel from the Tuwo Power Supply Station of the State Grid Jincheng Power Supply Company arrived at Taiting, Tuwo Township, Qinshui County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province The villagers in Feng’ao Nature Village rushed to repair the line, which surprised the villagers.

Recently, the mountainous areas in the western part of Qinshui County have experienced continuous heavy snow and freezing weather, and power lines have been seriously covered with ice. Emergency repair personnel from the State Grid Jincheng Power Supply Company hurriedly transported low-voltage cables to rewire the power supply for this small village of 22 households. After more than two hours of work, emergency repair crews finally restored power to all lines.

Weifang City, Shandong Province has implemented price discounts for household heating for low-income households within the urban central heating range at a discount of 3.5 yuan to 4 yuan per square meter per household, benefiting more than 7,300 households in need.

State Grid Jilin Power Supply Company came to the post-disaster reconstruction site in Xinkai Village, Kaiyuan Town, Shulan City, Jilin Province, and carried out special inspections village by village and line by line to investigate hidden dangers of villagers’ home appliances and heating, and to maintain power lines and equipment.

[Editor in charge: Liu Weijia]

2023-12-22 16:53:00
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