Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, July 15th Title: The first day of "Seven Downs and Eight Ups": The flood control of the Yangtze River has entered a critical period and the situation is still grim.

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Siyuan

　　Since the main flood season, heavy rainfall has continued to occur in the Yangtze River basin, and various provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have suffered from floods to varying degrees. What is the current flood situation in the Yangtze River, and what kind of shortcomings does it face? What kind of flood and rain situation will we face in the future? On the first day of the critical period of flood control (from July 15th to August 15th), the reporter walked into the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, which is known as the "brain of flood control in the Yangtze River", and directly attacked the "No.1 flood in the Yangtze River".

　　44-station super police and 2-station super guarantee that the flood control situation in the Yangtze River is still grim

　　Since Jiangxi and Hunan entered the flood season 25 days ahead of schedule on March 6, the precipitation in the Yangtze River basin is generally high. Especially since July, the Yangtze River Basin has been experiencing continuous heavy rainfall. Affected by this, from July 3 to July 15, there were 129 stations in 76 rivers in the Yangtze River basin with floods exceeding the police and above, including 111 stations exceeding the police, 15 stations exceeding the guarantee and 3 stations exceeding the history.

　　Chaojing and above stations are mainly distributed in Yuanjiang River, Zishui River and Xiangjiang River in Dongting Lake system, Poyang Lake system and lake area, Shuiyangjiang River, a tributary of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the main stream of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Among them, the section from Hengshan to Xiangtan River in the lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River has a catastrophic flood with a return period of over 50 years. At 5: 00 on the 13th, the water level in jiujiang railway station rose to the warning level of 20.00 meters, which reached the flood numbering standard according to the Regulations on Flood Numbering of Major Rivers in China, forming the No.1 Flood of the Yangtze River in 2019.

　　The water level gauge of Hankou Hydrological Station, which was taken at 8 am on July 15th. Affected by the continuous rainfall in the upper reaches, the water level in Hubei section of the main stream of the Yangtze River continues to rise. At 14: 00 on July 15th, the water level of Hankou Hydrological Station in the Yangtze River reached 26.09 meters, 1.09 meters higher than the fortification water level (25 meters). Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Minshe

　　In the past few days, the rivers and lakes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have remained high. According to the latest meeting of the Yangtze River Committee, from 8: 00 on July 14th to 8: 00 on July 15th, there were still 44 stations in the Yangtze River Basin that exceeded the police, and 2 stations exceeded the guarantee, with an exceeding range of 0.02 to 4.28 meters. In the Dongting Lake Basin, where the flood is the most tense, the Xiangjiang River is over-police, and Hengyang Station and Xiangtan Station are over-guaranteed.

　　Chen Min, director of the Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention Bureau of the Yangtze River Committee, said that at present, the highest water level has appeared at Qilishan Station, the Dongting Lake export control station, and the flood is advancing downstream. The water level at Hankou Station in the main stream will continue to rise slowly, and the water level at Wharf Town Station in the main stream will exceed the police on the 16th, and the flood at Hukou Station and jiujiang railway station will continue to rise to around the 17th, when the maximum exceeding police level will be about 1m.

　　Chen Min said that the flood control situation in the Yangtze River is still grim. Through consultation, the Yangtze River Committee continued to issue a yellow flood warning and maintained a Class III emergency response to flood prevention in the Yangtze River.

　　Watch out for the "sharp turn of drought and flood" when the rainfall area moves westward to the middle and lower reaches

　　Flood control experts said that in the future, affected by the western Pacific subtropical high extending westward and northward, the rainfall center area will be transferred from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the upper reaches, and the flood control of the Yangtze River will enter a critical period.

　　The hydrometeorological forecast shows that there will be a new round of rainfall in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Han River in the coming week. From 15th to 17th, there was moderate to heavy rain and local heavy rain from west to east in the north of the main stream of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. From 18th to 20th, there were moderate to heavy rains and local rainstorms in the middle and lower reaches of Jinsha River, Jialing River, Minjiang River, near the main stream of the upper reaches of Yangtze River and Wujiang River. On the 21st, the rainfall center moved northward to Jialing River and Minjiang River Basin.

　　Ding Shengxiang, director of the Dispatching Department of the Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention Bureau of the Yangtze River Committee, said that according to the current water and rain situation and considering the rainfall in the foreseeable period, it is estimated that the inflow of the Three Gorges Reservoir will have a flood process of about 40,000 cubic meters per second around the 21st.

　　The ship sailed into the waters of the Yangtze River (left) from the Han River (right) (photographed by drone on July 15). Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Minshe

　　Chen Min said that the regional shift of rainfall will bring a "respite" to the two lakes, but this does not mean that the flood control work can be taken lightly. At present, the water level of rivers, lakes and reservoirs is high, and dike projects have experienced long-term immersion, so it is easy to collapse during the water withdrawal period. At the same time, the weather forecast shows that there is no obvious rainfall process in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River from now until the beginning of August, so we need to be alert to the "sudden turn of flood and drought" and the "second plum blossom" in the middle and lower reaches similar to that in 1998.

　　Chen Min emphasized that there are many rivers and large river basins in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and moderate to heavy rain can cause large floods. According to the current situation and forecast of water and rain, the possibility of basin flood in the Yangtze River basin this year is lower than that predicted before the flood season, but the possibility still exists.

　　Weak links still exist and can be supplemented by non-engineering measures.

　　Many rounds of heavy rainfall have caused many dangers in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. According to the situation reported by the Water Resources Department of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, the heavy rainfall in early July alone caused 19 dangers in the water system of the two lakes, including 8 dangers in reservoirs and 11 dangers in dikes.

　　"After years of construction, the flood control and disaster reduction capacity of the Yangtze River basin has been significantly improved. However, due to the contradiction between the huge flood volume of the Yangtze River and the safe discharge of the river, judging from the dangerous situations and disasters reported in various places this year, there are still some weak links in the flood control and disaster reduction system of the Yangtze River." Chen Min said.

　　This is a village in Meidong Village, Jiuwei Town, Jinchengjiang District, Hechi City, Guangxi Province, which was affected by floods and caused road interruption (photographed by drone on July 14). Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua photo

　　First of all, the flood control capacity of tributaries and lakes is still low. Flood control experts said that the main tributaries and important lake dikes in the Yangtze River basin have wide areas and long lines, weak foundations and poor dike quality. This year, there have been many dangers of excessive flood dykes in Xiangjiang River in Hunan Province, and major dangers such as dike collapse have also occurred in Maquanwei, Xinjiang, Jiangxi Province.

　　Secondly, the pressure on the safety of small and medium-sized reservoirs is great. There are 51,200 reservoirs in the Yangtze River basin, including more than 49,000 small and medium-sized reservoirs. One third of the small and medium-sized reservoirs are in danger to varying degrees. In recent years, the state has intensified the reinforcement and construction of dangerous reservoirs, but it has not been cured. During the previous unannounced inspection, the Yangtze River Committee also found that the "three responsible persons" and "three key links" of some small and medium-sized reservoirs have not been fully implemented.

　　Chen Min said that in the long run, it is imperative to make up the shortcomings of water conservancy projects. It is necessary to continue to carry out the short-board construction of flood control and drought relief water conservancy projects, improve the flood control engineering system of the basin, and improve the flood control and disaster reduction capacity of the basin. At the same time, it is also necessary to upgrade the construction of non-engineering measures to the same height as the shortcomings of water conservancy projects, and effectively strengthen hydrological monitoring and forecasting, water project scheduling, flood control safety management, and laws and regulations. In the process of defending against the rainstorm and flood in early July, the water conservancy department lowered the starting water level by dispatching the pre-discharge of Zhexi Reservoir, so that the flood that may exceed the guarantee of 1.5 meters was controlled below the warning water level.

　　What do you think of the flood this year? —— Information connection from Emergency Management Department, Ministry of Water Resources and China Meteorological Bureau.

　　Cctv news(News Network): Since the beginning of this year, under the guidance of the macro-policy of cross-cycle adjustment, China’s financial institutions have continuously increased their support for small and medium-sized micro-and technology-based enterprises, and reasonable and abundant liquidity funds have strongly supported the high-quality economic development.

　　In the first half of the year, finance accurately supported key areas and weak links such as small and micro enterprises and manufacturing. At the end of June, the balance of China’s inclusive small and micro loans was 17.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31%; The balance of medium and long-term loans in manufacturing industry increased by 41.6% year-on-year, which was 24.8 percentage points higher than the growth rate of medium and long-term loans in all industries.

　　Not only that, financial support for technological innovation and high-quality development has increased. By the end of June, the loan balance of small and medium-sized science and technology enterprises was 2.86 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.96%. A total of 398,000 key enterprise banks have been established nationwide, and financial institutions have issued loans totaling 7 trillion yuan to 180,000 enterprises, which has driven nearly 30 million people to obtain employment.

　　Hunan, a national high-tech enterprise with 16 utility model patents and 2 invention patents, has an annual operating income of tens of millions of yuan. Due to the increase in orders this year, it is in urgent need of replenishing working capital.

　　Supporting innovative enterprises requires innovative financial policies. The bank cooperates with many intellectual property agencies to collect scientific and technological innovation data of high-tech enterprises, so that intellectual property rights can be changed from light paper to heavy credit.

　　Not only that, the People’s Bank of China has also creatively added two monetary policy tools that go directly to the real economy: on the one hand, it uses the central bank’s funds to encourage banks to "delay" small and micro loans, and on the other hand, it greatly increases the supply of credit loans. By the end of June, the national banking financial institutions had postponed the loan principal and interest of 11.8 trillion yuan, and issued a total of 6.9 trillion yuan of inclusive micro-credit loans.

　　In the second half of the year, a prudent monetary policy will continue to focus on supporting the real economy and guide financial institutions to increase their support for small and micro enterprises, agriculture, rural areas and farmers, manufacturing and other key areas and weak links.

　　Hubei Daily News (Reporter Huang Junhua, arel) On April 2, Wang Menghui, secretary of the provincial party committee, and Wang Zhonglin, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and governor, went to the provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters and Wuhan City to visit the staff, community volunteers and public security police who fought in the front line of epidemic prevention and control, and to investigate and supervise the epidemic prevention and control work. Wang Menghui stressed that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the important speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on epidemic prevention and control at the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee meeting, adhere to the general strategy of "external defense input and internal defense rebound", adhere to the general policy of "dynamic zero clearing", pay close attention to all aspects of epidemic prevention and control, and continuously consolidate and expand the decisive achievements of epidemic prevention and control. We must persist in striving for progress while maintaining stability, better coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development.

　　At the provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters, the provincial leaders listened to the current epidemic situation analysis and the report on the epidemic prevention and control work. Wang Menghui pointed out that it is necessary to keep in mind the important instruction of the Supreme Leader General Secretary that "persistence is victory", always tighten the string of epidemic prevention and control, strengthen confidence, persevere, and grasp all prevention and control measures strictly. The epidemic prevention and control command system at all levels in the province should be kept active, and the working mechanism should be continuously improved to ensure efficient and sensitive operation. It is necessary to compact the "four-party responsibility", resolutely and effectively handle the local imported epidemic, and resolutely hold the bottom line that there will be no large-scale rebound of the epidemic. It is necessary to continue to promote vaccination and further improve the vaccination rate of "one old and one small". With the coming of holidays in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the mobility of people is increasing. It is necessary to make scientific judgments, make good plans, improve the level of scientific and accurate prevention and control, and constantly optimize the measures for epidemic prevention and control, so as to make the prevention and control work more targeted.

　　Subsequently, the provincial leaders came to the East Lake New Town Community to inspect the entrance and exit of the community, learn more about the prevention and control of the normalized epidemic situation in the community, volunteer service, etc., and relive the enthusiasm of the Supreme Leader General Secretary when he visited the East Lake New Town Community in March 2020. Wang Menghui said that the decisive achievements in the Hubei and Wuhan defense wars for epidemic prevention and control are fundamentally due to the wise command and steering of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, the strong leadership and scientific response of the CPC Central Committee, the strong support of the people of the whole country and all sectors, and the joint efforts of the heroic Hubei and Wuhan people, which fully demonstrates the strong vitality and remarkable superiority of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. We should always bear in mind the earnest entrustment of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, adhere to the people first and life first, vigorously carry forward the great anti-epidemic spirit, speed up the construction of a grass-roots social governance pattern led by party building, give play to the main role of the masses, and jointly guard the important barrier of community prevention and control.

　　Fuhe Expressway Bayou is an important passage to Han. Provincial leaders came to the quarantine inspection point at the bayonet, carefully inspected the registration area, inspection area and observation area, learned more about the inspection of health code and travel code, nucleic acid registration and sampling process, and listened to the introduction of the "landing inspection" at the bayonet. Wang Menghui stressed that it is necessary to strictly implement the landing inspection at important checkpoints, implement export inspection measures such as highways, airports and railway stations, do a good job in information registration, transshipment isolation and nucleic acid detection for those who come to and return from Hubei in high-risk areas in China, and resolutely put all measures for external defense and import into place. It is necessary to scientifically guide the traffic flow and ensure the smooth and orderly traffic.

　　Located at Jinqiao Avenue in Jiang ‘an District, the centralized isolation point is mainly used for the centralized isolation of people coming to and returning from Han in medium and high-risk areas in China. Provincial leaders came outside the isolation point to see the operation management and service guarantee of the isolation point by video. Wang Menghui pointed out that the current situation of epidemic prevention and control is still severe and complicated, and the task of standardized management and risk management and control in isolated places is arduous, and we must not relax for an instant. It is necessary to strictly implement the closed-loop management measures of isolation points, strengthen daily disinfection, body temperature monitoring and nucleic acid detection, and prevent cross-infection and risk spillover. It is necessary to adhere to the prevention of people, things and the environment, do a good job in prevention and control of key places such as isolation points, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and prisons, and build a "firewall" and a dense prevention and control network.

　　Wuhan Traffic Control Center is jointly established by the municipal public security, health care, disease control and other departments. Provincial leaders came here to listen to the introduction of flow investigation, organization system and closed-loop management. Wang Menghui pointed out that epidemic control is the basic work of epidemic prevention and control, and it is the key to cut off the epidemic transmission chain. It is necessary to conscientiously sum up the practical experience of the flow adjustment work, strengthen the monitoring and early warning of high-risk posts and key areas, and put the work ahead. In the event of an epidemic, the work of tracing the source, investigation and control, isolation and treatment should be started quickly to minimize the risk of epidemic spread and achieve the maximum prevention and control effect with the least cost.

　　Provincial leaders Guo Yuanqiang, Dong Weimin, Zhao Haishan, Yang Yunyan and Xu Wenhai participated in relevant activities respectively.