Chinese official makes rare admission of failings over deadly Beijing floods | China
A Beijing city official, authorities this week to the serious floods that hit the capital of China in the response of official failures rarely released.
Yu Weiguo, the Secretary of the Communist Party, the most affected by the extreme weather conditions of this week, said that at a press conference on Thursday, the city was “gaps ında for the city’s ready for deadly floods.
On Sundays and Mondays, more than 40 people were killed in floods that hit Miyun and Yanqing, another Beijing region. Nine is still missing, including four municipal government employees.
One -year rain fell within seven days, turned the cars upside down and flooded their homes. More than 80,000 people moved and more than 100 villages lost powers. A total of more than 300,000 people were affected.
According to Agent France-Presse, “There were gaps in our preparation plans. We have excessive weather knowledge. This tragic lesson warned us that it is more than a slogan.
He was at an old care house in Taishitun, 31 of the 44 deaths approved, Taishitun, a town in Miyun. A report published by CaixinA Beijing -based business magazine said that the water in the nursing home was still in depth when journalists visited on Tuesday. Many residents have mobility, the care house is close to the qingshui river overflowing during the flood.
Yu expressed “deep mourning” for deaths.
Their interpretation is that weaknesses are rare that the authorities are prepared for excessive weather events that become more common. Beijing officials said that 67% more precipitation than this year this year.
City officials, disaster prevention plans are flawed and Beijing in the mountainous outer regions of the infrastructure “deficiencies”, he said.
Many flood victims interviewed by Guardian, said they did not receive warnings about excessive weather.
75 -year -old Miyun resident Li Qingfa, “the government was caught unprepared, they did not know before,” he said. “We didn’t really get a special warning. We didn’t get any training to confront the disaster.”
On Monday, before the scale of destruction was evident, China’s leader Xi Jinping said that government offices should “make every effort to protect people’s lives and property”.
Jason Tzu Kuan Lu and Lillian Yang’s additional research
