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Floodrelated Fatalities Fall Amid Efforts 4 | Tuesday, August 4, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Monkeying Flood-related around A snub-nosed monkey interacts with a villager in Yangxian county of Han- zhong, Shaanxi province, on Sunday. Located at the fatalities fall southern foot of the Qin- ling Mountains, the coun- ty is home to four precious local species — the panda, the crested ibis, the snub- amid efforts nosed monkey and the takin. TAO MING / XINHUA Evacuations, work teams help reduce number of dead, missing in the south By HOU LIQIANG people threatened by floods, he [email protected] said. “This has effectively reduced Despite southern China being the number of people left missing soaked in the past two months by or dead,” he continued. the second-highest amount of According to the ministry, as of precipitation since 1961, the July 31, national rescue teams country has experienced a vast have participated in flood control decrease in the number of fatali- and rescue efforts 11,242 times. ties in floods so far this rainy sea- The more than 140,000 rescu- son thanks to the government’s ers who have been mobilized efforts in ramping up flood miti- have saved 38,077 people in dan- gation, an emergency official ger and evacuated another Policy: said. 109,000. Beidou satellite system provides From July 1, the start of the Yang said the decrease in the country’s primary rainy season, to number of rooms demolished by July 28, over 54.8 million people floods show that the anti-disaster Rules aim suffered floods, up by 23.4 per- capability of people’s houses has services for business and public cent from the average of the same been greatly enhanced as govern- to downsize periods in the past five years, ments of different levels pay according to the Ministry of increasingly greater attention to By ZHAO LEI plant seedlings in paddies 50 per- Emergency Management. infrastructure construction. [email protected] cent faster than three farmers sector’s risk The number of people evacuat- The declines of fatalities and 1,200 could. ed during the period reached demolished rooms occurred as The domestically developed Bei- Chinese characters In the transportation industry, almost 3.8 million, an increase of the second-highest amount of dou Navigation Satellite System The maximum number of Beidou functions have been From page 1 characters per message that 36.7 percent from the average precipitation in nearly six decades has proved to be useful in a wide applied in nearly 6.6 million taxis, can be sent by Beidou’s unique between 2015 and 2019, it added. fell in southern parts of the coun- variety of public and business fields messaging system buses and trucks around China. The rules aim to eradicate Meanwhile, the number of try from June 1 to July 28. in China, said the China Satellite More than 3,200 navigation facili- principal-protected wealth fatalities and the rooms demol- During that period, southern Navigation Office. ties along rivers and over 2,900 management products — which ished fell sharply from the past parts of the country on average Amid the ongoing fight against In addition, water management maritime navigation instruments at times have proved risky five years’ average. While the received 436 millimeters of pre- severe floods ravaging regions officials in Zhejiang and Anhui employ Beidou services. despite their name — as well as number of people left dead or cipitation, 18 percent more than along the Yangtze River, Beidou has provinces are using Beidou’s trans- Moreover, over 70,000 fishing to reduce investment in non- missing dropped by 53.9 percent normal and the second highest enabled local authorities in provin- mission channels to guarantee that boats across the country have been standardized assets and contain to 158, only 41,000 rooms were since 1961, according to the ces including Hunan, Shaanxi and flood data communication will not equipped with Beidou terminals financial risks. demolished by floods, down 68.4 National Climate Center. Sichuan to undertake real-time be interrupted by extreme weather and at least 10,000 fishermen were Due to the COVID-19 pandem- percent, the ministry said. “After entering plum rain sea- monitoring of flood conditions. or damaged infrastructure, the rescued or received assistance over ic, however, the revamping task, The numbers show that the son, the southern regions were Equipped with Beidou-based office said. the past several years after they which entails debt repayment, government’s efforts to enhance frequented by rainstorms. … geological sensors, officials in dis- In the agricultural sector, Bei- used a Beidou device to ask for has faced mounting difficulties flood control is paying off as the Many areas experienced record- aster-prone regions can detect and dou-enabled functions are also help. partly because some businesses country continues to battle high precipitation,” the center forecast landslides or other abnor- used in at least 50,000 farm In the public security field, more that have struggled to survive the severe, wide-ranging floods this said. mal geological movements and machines and have improved oper- than 400,000 portable terminals contagion may need to defer year, said Yang Xiaodong, deputy The season refers to a long deliver early warnings to residents. ational efficiency. used by police across the country repayment, the PBOC said. director-general of the ministry’s period of continuous rainy or Ran Chengqi, head of the office, Cotton growers in the Xinjiang have Beidou-enabled positioning “Extending the transitional disaster relief and material logis- cloudy weather that often occurs said that high-accuracy function is Uygur autonomous region have functions. period as appropriate will alle- tics department. in June and July as plums ripen possible thanks to collaboration found it more efficient and cost- More than 70 percent of mobile viate the blow of the epidemic While holding daily consulta- in regions around the middle between Beidou satellites and the effective to deploy Beidou-navigat- phones registered in China are on the asset management sector tions to coordinate flood mitiga- and lower reaches of the Yangtze vast ground-based network of near- ed unmanned aircraft to spray farm compatible with Beidou signals. and the pressure on financial tion efforts in different regions, River. ly 3,000 augmentation stations. chemicals rather than doing so In China, the overall value of sat- institutions from the revamp- the ministry has dispatched doz- The two reaches of the Yangtze, With the Beidou-enabled capa- manually, thus saving manpower, ellite-enabled navigation and posi- ing task,” said a PBOC state- ens of work teams to guide local for example, were battered by an bility, even abnormal movements money and time. tioning services in 2019 was 345 ment, adding that the move will governments in their work, he all-time high precipitation of 617 at the centimeter level can be Thanks to the high-accuracy billion yuan ($48.5 billion), up 14.4 also facilitate financing for the noted. millimeters from June 1 to July 28, detected in real-time, he noted. positioning provided by Beidou, percent year-on-year. real economy. Adhering to the notion that 65 percent more than usual, it Disaster relief workers can also some grain and vegetable farmers More than 500,000 Chinese peo- “If financial institutions dras- “people’s interests should be put said. use Beidou’s unique messaging in Heilongjiang province can now ple work at about 14,000 domestic tically downscaled noncompli- first, and nothing is more pre- It said the largest daily precipi- capacity, which allows users to use computers or even mobile institutes and companies doing ant wealth management cious than people’s lives”, the tation so far this rainy season send out messages of up to 1,200 phones to control driverless farm business related to Beidou and products this year, financial risks national comprehensive rescue occurred in Yangshuo county, Chinese characters each from pla- machinery to carry out high-preci- other satellite navigation and could surge and hit the real- teams with the ministry, together Guangxi Zhuang autonomous ces with poor signal strength or sion farming tasks. positioning services, according to economy businesses relying on with grassroots officials, soldiers region, with 327 millimeters, or when fixed or mobile phone servi- In Guangdong province, a Bei- the China Satellite Navigation those products to obtain financ- and militia members, saved and about 60 percent of the annual ces are damaged by floods. dou-guided rice planter is able to Office. ing,” said Dong Ximiao, chief transferred a large number of average precipitation in Beijing. analyst at XWBank, an online- only bank based in Sichuan province. Upgrading: Innovation widely employed As the deferral eases the pres- sure faced by the real economy Zhejiang, Fujian brace and financial institutions, it From page 1 Technology, said that to ensure the network was launched by a Long will help safeguard financial nonstop, smooth operation of Bei- March 3B carrier rocket at the stability and spur healthy for Typhoon Hagupit Usually, a satellite will employ no dou, engineers devised a number of Xichang Satellite Launch Center in development of the capital more than 30 percent of such new emergency plans and put major parts Sichuan province and was placed market, said Kang Chongli, By MA ZHENHUAN in Hangzhou to ports or sail to safe zones. technologies to guarantee low techni- through rigorous tests before mount- into a geostationary orbit about deputy dean at the research [email protected] As of noon Monday, a total of cal risks, but in some Beidou satellites, ing them on satellites. They also 36,000 kilometers above Earth. institute of Yuekai Securities in 4,481 tourists in these areas had as much as 70 percent of their technol- established a technical support team After in-orbit tests over the past Guangdong province.
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