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Premier calls for more efforts in flood control
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-06-22 09:41
Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice Premier Hui Liangyu Tuesday demanded the
governments at all levels make all-out efforts in flood prevention and control.
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Chinese residents
look on as water is discharged from the Xiaolangdi Reservior on the Yellow
River June 16, 2005. 2,900 cubic meters of water will gush out of the
reservior per second in the next 15-20 days to wash the sands in the river
into the sea. [newsphoto]
| In response to the floods in Xijiang River in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region and Minjiang, the largest river in eastern China's Fujian Province, Wen
and Hui wrote instructions requiring localgovernments to identify duties,
improve emergency plans, enforce prediction and monitoring on floods, and
earnestly carry out the mapped measures.
State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (SFCDRH) also sent a
notice calling for a closely watch on weather and flood changes and enforcement
of flood control measures to make sure all the dams and reservoirs can safely
pass flood peaks, and avoid mountain torrents disasters.
Affected by surging water in Liujiang, Guijiang and Yujiang, three main
tributaries of Xijiang, water level at Wuzhou Hydrographic Station of the river
reached 23.06 meters at 2 p.m. Tuesday, 5.76 meters higher than the warning
level, and only 2.44 meters left to the safe line designed for the key flood
control city of Wuzhou.
The rate of flow there has reached 45,000 cubic meters per second and water
level continues to rise.
Local authorities along with local residents are making all-outefforts to
fight against floods and the SFCDRH has sent a task team to hand flood
control.
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