HONG KONG: China’s agricultural sector should enhance its capability for catastrophe prevention and mitigation, Vice Premier Liu Guozhong stated on Tuesday (Aug 13), in accordance with the Xinhua information company, additionally vowing extra monetary assist to revive output after flooding.
Liu known as for strengthening the monitoring of rainfall situations to supply early warnings and enhancing defence capabilities towards water and drought disasters in main water conservancy tasks in China’s northeastern provinces.
His feedback got here as he was conducting an investigative journey in Liaoning and Jilin provinces in northeast China, Xinhua stated.
Eight rivers within the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and the areas of Internal Mongolia and Xinjiang, together with different areas, skilled floods above the warning stage on Aug 13, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing China’s Ministry of Water Sources.
Excessive rainfall in July drenched huge areas such because the Sichuan Basin, Yellow River, Huai River and elements of the North China Plain, breaking precipitation data at 33 climate stations in Henan, Hunan and Shandong provinces.
The extreme rainfall and ensuing flooding led to a close to doubling in financial losses from pure disasters in July from a yr earlier, the federal government stated on Aug 9.
China suffered 76.9 billion yuan (US$10.1 billion) in financial losses from pure disasters final month, with 88 per cent of these losses attributable to heavy rains and floods, in accordance with the Ministry of Emergency Administration.
It was the most important quantity of losses for the month of July since 2021, ministry knowledge confirmed.
Pure disasters through the month affected nearly 26.4 million individuals throughout China, with 328 both useless or lacking. A couple of million individuals have been relocated, 12,000 homes collapsed and 157,000 extra have been broken. Some 2.42 million hectares (5.98 million acres) of crop space have been additionally affected.
