Xinhua News Agency commentator： Resolutely win the tough battle of flood control and disaster relief.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 25thTitle: Resolutely win the tough battle of flood control and disaster relief.

Xinhua news agency commentator

On 25th, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of China and delivered an important speech to study and deploy flood control and flood relief work. The meeting scientifically judged the flood situation, carefully deployed flood control and flood relief work, put forward clear requirements, and issued an action order to resolutely win the tough battle of flood control and flood relief.

This year, China’s climate is biased, with many heavy rainfall processes and long duration, and river floods occur early and develop rapidly. Some places have been repeatedly hit by heavy rainfall, and the situation of flood control and flood fighting is severe and complicated. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, Party committees and governments at all levels acted quickly and responded with all their strength. The National Defense General and relevant departments and units performed their duties conscientiously and cooperated with each other. The People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force, the national comprehensive fire rescue team and various professional rescue forces moved at the command and charged ahead. The broad masses of cadres and people stood together in the same boat, and jointly built a solid defense line to protect their homes, and made important achievements in flood control and flood relief.

Flood is an order, and flood control is a responsibility. At present, China is in the critical period of "seven falls and eight rises" flood control, and the pressure of flood control peaks, dike breakouts and waterlogging drainage in the Yangtze River and other basins is not reduced. Heavy floods may occur in the Yellow River, Huaihe River, Haihe River and Songliao River basins, and superimposed typhoons will enter an active period, making the flood control situation more severe and complicated. It is an important test and task for all relevant regions, departments and units to do a good job in flood control and disaster relief. Always tighten the string of flood control and flood fighting, shoulder the responsibility, grasp the task in hand, resolutely implement the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee, and do a solid job in flood control, flood fighting and disaster relief, so as to continuously build a security defense line and resolutely win the battle of flood control, flood fighting and disaster relief.

To do a good job in flood control, flood fighting and disaster relief, we must adhere to the people first and life first, and always put the safety of people’s lives first. It is necessary to further strengthen risk awareness and bottom line thinking, overcome paralysis, luck and lax mood, take the initiative, do all the work in detail, nip in the bud, and effectively block potential risks at the source and eliminate them in the bud. It is necessary to further improve the monitoring means, improve the accuracy of early warning, strengthen the linkage between early warning and emergency response, improve the response speed, highlight the key points of defense, keep an eye on the grassroots, decisively transfer people in dangerous areas in advance, and minimize casualties. It is necessary to show the sense of responsibility of "always worrying", implement the flood control inspection and defense system, scientifically dispatch flood control projects, highlight the key defenses of weak embankment sections, dangerous construction sections and dangerous reservoirs, increase the intensity of risk inspection and rescue, and resolutely avoid the breach of dikes in large rivers and large and key medium-sized reservoirs, so as to ensure the safety of important dike reservoirs and infrastructure.

To win the tough battle of flood control and disaster relief, we must strengthen overall planning and advance preset, form a joint force of flood control and flood relief, and continuously improve the ability of disaster prevention, mitigation and disaster relief. All forces should always maintain an emergency state and obey unified dispatch to ensure rapid dispatch and efficient rescue. It is necessary to make scientific arrangements, carry out their duties, and make overall plans to do all the work. Timely allocate disaster relief funds, dispatch disaster relief materials, properly resettle the affected people, and ensure the needs of the people; Pay close attention to repairing damaged infrastructure such as water conservancy, electric power, transportation and communication, and organize and lead the affected people to resume production and rebuild their homes; Caring for and helping the people suffering from disasters and preventing poverty from returning to poverty due to disasters; Do a solid job in agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation to ensure national food security. We should base ourselves on the present and take a long-term view, strengthen the construction of emergency support capacity, improve the urban flood control and drainage capacity, strengthen the grassroots emergency foundation and strength, and continuously improve the comprehensive disaster reduction capacity of the whole society.

See the spirit before the test, and show responsibility at the critical moment. The more severe and complicated the situation of flood control and flood fighting, the more all localities and departments should do their best, conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, be responsible, be responsible, and earnestly shoulder the political responsibility of promoting one party’s development and ensuring one party’s peace. Leading cadres at all levels are guided by the front, and all relevant parties cooperate closely. Grassroots party organizations and cadres in party member give full play to their role as battlefortresses and pioneers, and they are brave enough to compete for the first place in the front line of flood control and flood relief. They will certainly be able to build an unbreakable iron wall in the storm and effectively protect the lives and property of the people.