Wen Jiabao: Central Finance Will Grant Subsidies For Drought Relief

Wen Jiabao ponder over the great drought this year and comprehensively consider the south to North Water Transfer Project.

The south to North Water Diversion Project is a major project of central decision making, and must be well constructed. However, four major issues should be considered comprehensively:

The first is water quality, the two is immigration, the three is the water environmental capacity of Hanjiang River, and four is the utilization and protection of water resources.

Four major issues must be considered in the south to North Water Transfer Project

Wen Jiabao deployed further drought relief and disaster relief meetings to decide the central government's money distribution

On from June 2nd to 4th, Wen Jiabao, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, and vice premier of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council, and commander in chief of the national flood control and Drought Relief Headquarters, Hui Liangyu rushed to the three provinces with severe drought in Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei. They went to Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake and other lakes and Danjiangkou reservoir to inspect the water regime, drought and disaster situation, visited the condolences to the cadres and the masses, and directed against drought relief work, and held a symposium on Drought Relief in Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces in Wuhan, and made further efforts to fight drought and disaster relief work.

Support villagers' suggestions

Strengthening the construction of water conservancy facilities in the lake area

13 of the 14 cities and counties in Hunan province were hit by the great drought.

The surface area of Dongting Lake is reduced to 770 square kilometers, and its water volume is less than 1 billion 400 million cubic meters.

On the afternoon of 2 and 3 in the morning, Wen Jiabao visited Yueyang, Junshan, Huarong, Nanxian, Anxiang and Lixian to see the drought.

In the cotton field beside the village, Gong Yicheng, the villagers, was watering the low cotton seedlings with water pressed from the well.

Active water diversion, water irrigation, corn seedlings and bean sprouts were covered with plastic film to moisturize, double cropping rice was replanted to one season rice, and drought resistant crops were replanted.

Faced with severe droughts, Wen Jiabao was deeply moved by the fact that party committees, governments and cadres and masses at all levels did not rely on them.

He said that in the face of such a great drought, the villagers were faced with difficulties and struggled to fight for drought.

In the Qianhe village of Xinhe Township, Huarong County, the local people's introduction of the 6 character formula "cited, raised, increased, fetch, protect and festival" was impressed by Wen Jiabao.

Wen Jiabao said, these six points are very important.

The more drought, the more scientific scheduling, saving water, and enhance the awareness of saving water.

Only water saving is the way to solve the water problem in China.

During the investigation of the red weir village in the lake town of Nanxian, the villagers Chen Zaiqing suggested strengthening the construction of water conservancy facilities in the lake district. Wen Jiabao agreed deeply that "this opinion is very important."

During the drought year, we felt the importance of water conservancy projects even more.

According to your opinion, we should strengthen the construction of water conservancy facilities in the future.

The premier's sincere and humorous words aroused people's understanding laughter.

Premier told villagers

The central government will grant drought relief subsidies.

"Thousand lakes" Hubei also occurred in autumn, winter, spring, summer and four seasons.

The people of the whole province took the initiative to fight against drought and disaster relief through manpower, engineering drought and artificial precipitation.

Wen Jiabao has a special feeling for this land.

In 1998, when the Yangtze River experienced an extraordinary flood, he came to Hubei many times to command flood fighting and rescue, and spent unforgettable days and nights.

On the afternoon of 3 July, in Dongfengcun, Gongan County, Jingzhou, Wen Jiabao said to the villagers emotionally that great changes had taken place in the public security in the past 13 years, but the spirit of the public security people in taking the overall situation, the fear of sacrifice and the courage to struggle had not changed.

I believe that the tested public security people will be able to overcome this year's drought.

The Danjiangkou reservoir is a large-scale water control project in the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River, and also the source of the Middle Route Project of the south to North Water Diversion Project.

Since April 4th, the water level has dropped to below 139 meters.

On the morning of 4, on the top of the dam of the Danjiangkou reservoir, the staff told Premier Wen that the current water level was 134.87 meters, 8 meters lower than that of the whole year.

Wen Jiabao said with great earnestness that this year's drought caused me to think. The south to North Water Diversion Project is a major project of central decision-making and must be well constructed.

But there are four major issues that should be considered comprehensively:

The first is water quality.

It is necessary to ensure that a corridor of clear water reaches Beijing, which not only involves the surrounding water environment of the reservoir area, but also involves the pportation environment along the south to North Water Transfer Project.

The two problem is immigration.

We should ensure that migrants are properly resettled and long-term stable employment is ensured.

The three is the water environmental capacity of the Hanjiang River.

We should pay close attention to the changes of water environment in Hanjiang River and prevent eutrophication.

The four is the relationship between water resources utilization and the protection of the ecological environment.

Water conservancy projects have an impact on the ecological environment, and the changes of the ecological environment will also affect the water conservancy projects.

In the corn field of Yangjia Wan Village in Hongshan mouth town, Laohekou City, several villagers are ordering corn.

Wen Jiabao squatted down to help water the corn.

He told the villagers that last night, the heads of the departments in Yichang and the entourage met to decide that the central government should take money to grant drought relief subsidies to farmers in drought areas and help them fight drought.

Prevent drought from turning to waterlogging

Drought and rainfall are exceptionally few. The water level of rivers and lakes is low. Some rivers break down and go off, and the farming industry is seriously affected.

Since May, there has been a rare spring and summer drought in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The June 4th meteorological drought comprehensive index monitoring showed that 45 counties and cities in Hubei province were above moderate weather drought.

In the severely affected Hunan, there are still 7 million 800 thousand mu of arable land under drought in the province, including 4 million 600 thousand mu of drought, 3 million 200 thousand mu of water shortage and 610 thousand water shortage.

Since the flood control began in June 3rd, the dry area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has ended the situation of little rain, and most areas have come to the rainy weather.

According to the Central Meteorological Observatory 5, at present, the situation of less rainfall in southeastern Hubei, northern Hunan, northern Jiangxi, southern Anhui and Zhejiang is eased to varying degrees, and the water level of lakes such as Honghu and Poyang Lake has also picked up.

In view of the large amount of rainfall accumulated in the southern part of the Yangtze River, meteorologists have warned to guard against urban waterlogging, flash floods and possible geological disasters.