August 6, 2023 at 9:53 am
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Affected by typhoon Dusuri (Doksuri) remnants of moisture moving northward, the northern part of China has been hit by heavy rain for days.
Affected by typhoon Dusuri (Doksuri) remnants of moisture moving northward, the northern part of China has been hit by heavy rain for days.
In Baoding, Hebei Province, 10 people died and 18 people lost contact. In Shulan City, Jilin Province, 6 people died and 4 people lost contact. Residents in Bazhou, Hebei were dissatisfied with the large-scale flooding caused by the flood discharge, but the official media claimed that it was caused by rainfall, and some residents took to the streets to protest. The authorities later called the villagers “courageous in dedication and sacrifice” and promised compensation.
According to official statistics released in July, floods, typhoons and other disasters caused more than 16 million people to be affected nationwide, 147 people were killed or lost contact, and direct economic losses exceeded 41.1 billion yuan.
Northeast disaster
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Jilin continued to rain, and the average rainfall in Shulan City reached 111.7 millimeters. Among them, the rainfall in Yongsheng Forest Farm, the center of heavy rainfall, reached 489 millimeters, which was 4.7 times the historical maximum of 103 millimeters. Villages and towns such as Jinma Town, Kaiyuan Town, and Qili Township in the city were flooded, some bridges collapsed, roads were damaged, and a large number of farmlands were affected. More than 130,000 people were affected.
As of the evening of the 5th, 6 people died in Shulan City, and 4 public officials lost contact during the disaster relief, including Luo Xudong, member of the Standing Committee of the Shulan Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor.
On August 6, the Ministry of Water Resources of China raised the emergency response to flood defense in the Northeast region to Level 3, referring to the Lalin River, a tributary on the right bank of the main stream of the Songhua River, and the upper reaches of the Mudan River, where floods above the warning level successively occurred. Previously, data from the Heilongjiang Provincial Hydrology and Water Resources Center on August 5 showed that the water levels of 25 rivers in Heilongjiang exceeded the warning level. Among them, the water level at the Mangniu River Da Nianzigou Station exceeded the warning level by 3.4 meters.
As of 8:40 on August 5th, there were 4 large, 7 medium, and 35 small reservoirs in Heilongjiang Province that reported floods, operating 0.04 to 4.84 meters above the flood limit.
Disaster situation in North China
In Hebei Province, 883 townships in 98 counties and districts were hit by floods, affecting 2.22 million people. As of 8:00 on August 4, 1.54 million people had been transferred from Hebei, of which 960,000 people had been transferred from flood storage and detention areas. Langfang, Hengshui, and Baoding in Hebei maintain a first-level emergency response to flood prevention and typhoon prevention.
Among them, in Baoding City, the average rainfall was 353.1 millimeters, and the maximum daily precipitation was 419.7 millimeters, breaking the record value of 400.8 millimeters; among the 93 reservoirs, 10 large and medium-sized reservoirs all exceeded the flood limit water level, and 83 small reservoirs had 67 Seat overflow.
The Baoding Municipal Government announced on August 5 that the city’s affected population was 1.1 million, with a total of 10 deaths, 18 missing, and more than 620,000 people were evacuated.
As for Zhuozhou City, where the disaster was severe earlier, as of 7:00 on August 6, 93 communities without power had resumed formal or temporary power supply, and more than 90% of them had been restored. From August 5th, the city began to carry out epidemic prevention and disinfection work in the main urban area. There are epidemic prevention workers commonly known as “Dabai” wearing white one-piece protective clothing to disinfect on the street.
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After the flood situation in Beijing temporarily stabilized, BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell came to Zhuozhou in Hebei Province, one of the worst-hit places in North China after days of torrential rain.
People in Bazhou protest against flood discharge
Earlier in Hebei, 7 flood storage and detention areas were opened, including the Dongdian flood storage and detention area in Bazhou, Langfang, which was opened on the 1st. Some people in Bazhou complained that the flood discharge caused a large area of the local area to be flooded, and tens of thousands of homes were destroyed. However, CCTV’s Reports blamed rains for “flooding”.
Hundreds of people in Bazhou went to the city government building to protest on August 4. They held up a banner reading “Give me back my home, it was obviously caused by the flood, but it was caused by the rain”, and once clashed with the police present.
The Bazhou official issued “A Letter to the Folks” on the 5th, stating that all the people in the flood storage and detention area of Bazhou “obeyed the command, responded positively, moved out of their long-lived homes without hesitation, and practiced the courageous dedication with practical actions. , The tenacious will to dare to sacrifice!…History will record the achievements of the folks!”.
The letter promised to make compensation for disasters in accordance with the national regulations on compensation for flood storage and detention areas, including damage to crops, breeding, forestry, housing, agricultural production machinery, draft animals, and household durable consumer goods on the contracted land.
Previously, Hebei officials pointed out that the flood storage and detention area involved 5 townships and 47 administrative villages in Bazhou City, and 73,205 people were transferred and resettled.
The national economic loss exceeds 41.1 billion yuan
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The flood caused damage to a large amount of farmland. The picture shows a farmland in Hebei.
The Office of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Emergency Management Department stated on August 5 that it is still in the critical period of “seven downs and eight ups” flood control, and there is still great uncertainty in the situation of typhoon storms and floods. On August 6, China’s Ministry of Finance again urgently allocated 350 million yuan in central natural disaster relief funds to the affected areas. The authorities had already allocated 170 million yuan.
China’s Ministry of Emergency Management announced that in July, floods, typhoons and other disasters caused more than 16 million people to be affected nationwide, 147 people died or disappeared, more than 700,000 people were urgently relocated, 4,300 houses collapsed, more than 48,000 houses were damaged, and direct economic losses More than 41.1 billion yuan.
In addition, there were more high-temperature days in July than in the same period in the past, and there were two nationwide high-temperature weather processes. Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Liaoning and other places were severely drought-stricken.
2023-08-06 09:57:50
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