Ministry of Water Resources： This year, 109.7 billion cubic meters of floods were held in reservoirs nationwide to avoid the transfer of 18.52 million people.

　　CCTV News:On August 13th, the State Council Press Office held a press conference to introduce this year’s flood control and disaster relief work and answer reporters’ questions. Ye Jianchun, vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Water Resources has scientifically and finely dispatched 3,177 large and medium-sized reservoirs, impounding 109.7 billion cubic meters of floods and avoiding the transfer of 18.52 million people.

　　Ye Jianchun introduced that since the beginning of this year, there has been more rainfall in China, and time and space have been concentrated. There have been 12 numbered floods in the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Pearl River and Taihu Lake. There was a basin flood in the Yangtze River, and the Three Gorges Reservoir had three inflow peaks of more than 50,000 cubic meters per second. The section below Shashi, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake in the middle and lower reaches of the main stream exceeded the police, and the longest exceeding time was 42 days. There is a large basin flood in Huaihe River, and the reaches from Wangjiaba to Zhengyangguan in the main stream are beyond protection, and the reaches from Runheji to Wangji are beyond history. A basin flood occurred in Taihu Lake, with the highest water level reaching 4.79 meters, which is the third in history and the highest in history is 4.97 meters. A total of 634 rivers across the country have experienced floods exceeding the police, of which 194 are over-protected and 53 are over-historical. At present, except for the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, Huaihe River and Taihu Lake, the water level of other major rivers is stable.

　　Ye Jianchun said that the Ministry of Water Resources conscientiously implemented the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on flood control and disaster relief work and the spirit of Premier Li Keqiang’s instructions, adhered to the bottom line thinking in accordance with the unified arrangements of the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and the National Defense General, and strengthened the awareness of risks and worries. At the beginning of the year, it overcame the impact of the epidemic and made comprehensive arrangements for the prevention of "three major risks" such as excessive floods, reservoir crashes and mountain torrents. Based on the three main responsibilities of monitoring, forecasting and early warning, water project dispatching and emergency technical support, a special class for water regime forecasting and water project dispatching was established, and Class II and III emergency responses were launched many times, organizing and guiding all river basins and localities to do a solid job in flood and drought disaster prevention. Scientifically and finely dispatch 3,177 large and medium-sized reservoirs (times), retain 109.7 billion cubic meters of floods, and avoid the transfer of 18.52 million people. Among them, the reservoir groups in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River with the Three Gorges as the core are jointly dispatched to intercept floods and cut off peaks, thus avoiding the use of flood storage and detention near Chenglingji. Eight flood storage zones, such as Mengwa, were activated to store floods, and the water level in the main stream of Huaihe River was reduced by 0.2— 0.4 meters; The main projects such as Taipu Gate and Wangting Water Control Project have accumulated an outward displacement of nearly 3 billion cubic meters, which is equivalent to lowering the water level of Taihu Lake by 1.26 meters. The meteorological, industrial and information departments jointly released 24.35 million pieces of early warning information of mountain torrents to the flood control responsible persons and the public. A total of more than 720 working groups, expert groups and unannounced inspection teams have been dispatched to guide and urge all localities to do defense work such as dispatching, inspection and defense. Strengthen joint consultation with meteorological departments,Inform the emergency department of the results of water regime forecast in time and provide technical support for flood fighting and emergency rescue.

　　Ye Jianchun emphasized that China is still in the flood season, and it is expected that typhoon rainfall, local rainstorm and autumn rain in West China may still cause serious flood. The Ministry of Water Resources will continue to focus on the prevention of "three major risks" and do its best to prevent floods and droughts to ensure the safety of people’s lives and property.