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HONG KONG: China’s agricultural sector must improve its disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, Vice Premier Liu Guozhong said on Tuesday (Aug 13), Xinhua News Agency reported, pledging more financial support to help agriculture resume production after floods.
Liu Zhijun demanded that rainfall monitoring and early warning should be strengthened to enhance the ability of major water conservancy projects in Northeast China to prevent water and drought disasters.
Xinhua News Agency said he made the remarks during an inspection tour in Liaoning and Jilin provinces in northeast China.
According to China’s Ministry of Water Resources, on August 13, eight rivers in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other provinces and regions and surrounding areas experienced floods above warning levels.
In July, extreme rainfall hit the Sichuan Basin, the Yellow River Basin, the Huaihe River Basin and parts of the North China Plain. The precipitation at 33 meteorological stations in Henan, Hunan, Shandong and other provinces broke historical records.
The government said on August 9 that heavy rains and subsequent flooding caused economic losses from natural disasters in July to nearly double compared with the same period last year.
China’s economic losses from natural disasters totaled 76.9 billion yuan ($10.1 billion) last month, with 88 percent of the losses caused by heavy rains and floods, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.
Data from the Ministry of Commerce showed that this was the biggest loss in July since 2021.
Natural disasters affected nearly 26.4 million people in China that month, killing or missing 328 people. More than 1 million people were forced to relocate, 12,000 houses collapsed, and 157,000 houses were damaged. About 2.42 million hectares (5.98 million acres) of crops were affected.
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