According to the Ministry of Emergency Management, on December 17, the National Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Committee issued a notice to local disaster reduction committees and relevant departments, requiring a clear understanding of the current severe situation facing disaster prevention and relief work, strengthening bottom-line thinking and limit thinking, paying close attention to various measures for the prevention and response of low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters, and making every effort to deal with all kinds of emergencies to ensure that the people are safe and warm in winter.
The notice requires that responsibilities should be compacted and preventive measures refined, and all regions, relevant departments and units should take immediate action to further improve the emergency command system for low-temperature, rain, snow and freezing disasters, and implement responsibility measures in the whole process of disaster prevention and response, at all levels and in all posts, and that leading cadres at all levels should take the initiative to command, track and supervise, respond to and deal with sudden dangers and disasters in a timely manner, and make every effort to do a good job in "ensuring safety, ensuring smooth flow, ensuring power supply, ensuring people's livelihood and ensuring stability". It is necessary to closely monitor, strengthen early warning research and judgment, encrypt monitoring and forecasting, dynamically assess the risk situation of low temperature, rain, snow and freezing, release early warning information such as snowfall, cold waves, and road ice through multiple channels and high density, organize relevant departments to jointly consult, improve the multi-departmental emergency linkage mechanism, start emergency response in a timely manner, make targeted arrangements and deployments, and form a joint force for prevention and response. It is necessary to take multiple measures to deal with and strengthen the smooth flow of traffic, according to the situation of low temperature, rain, snow and freezing weather, start the emergency plan for bad weather in a timely manner, preset snow and ice removal equipment and snow melting agents, anti-skid materials and other rescue materials in advance, increase the patrol control of key road sections, and strengthen the investigation of hidden dangers such as subways, overpasses, underpass tunnels, and accidents prone to ice, so as to effectively prevent accidents.
The notice emphasizes that it is necessary to respond in a timely manner, strengthen power supply, strengthen the monitoring of power grid operation, implement equipment anti-freezing and moisture-proof operation and maintenance measures in advance, do a good job in the preset of emergency repair teams and de-ice melting equipment, and ensure that once a dangerous situation occurs, it will be put into emergency rescue nearby, and at the same time, it will do a good job in advance of thermal coal pre-storage to ensure the normal power generation of thermal power plants during critical periods. It is necessary to ensure safe supply, strengthen energy security, do a good job in increasing production and supply of energy security, improve the emergency dispatch mechanism of coal, natural gas, electricity, refined oil and other energy complementary and mutual insurance, closely monitor the situation of electricity, coal, natural gas and other areas seriously affected by the cold wave, and carry out cross-provincial energy dispatch in a timely manner to ensure that the national energy supply and demand are stable and orderly. It is necessary to carefully rescue, strengthen the people's livelihood and ensure supply, allocate disaster relief funds and materials in a timely manner, carry out targeted disaster relief and relief work, pay close attention to the fluctuations and conditions of important livelihood commodities during the period of low temperature, rain and snow and ice, increase market supervision, and severely crack down on illegal acts that disrupt market order such as coaxing and hoarding, and at the same time do a good job of winter and spring relief work to ensure a safe and warm winter. It is necessary to actively publicize and respond to social concerns, take the initiative to release the dynamics of the prevention and response to low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters, continue to carry out popular science education on the prevention and response of low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters, give full play to the role of grass-roots party organizations as a fighting fortress and the vanguard and exemplary role of the majority of party members and cadres, and effectively unite the strong joint force of the vast number of cadres and masses to unite and fight disasters.
*: Ministry of Emergency Management**.