Flood-hit China expands social security net as extreme rain takes toll
Beijing (Reuters) -China has expanded economic measures for the segments of the population affected by flood control plans during excessive rainfall, including payments for direct compensation and livestock losses from the central government.
In China, the floods in China to direct the areas next to the rivers is an important step of the direction of the flood of flow. As excessive rainfall grows frequently, China, some of which have not been used so far and filled by farms, cultivated areas and even residential buildings, increases such areas that increase social tensions.
According to the rules of compensation for the flood deviations released late on Friday, the central government will now carry 70% of all compensation funds and local governments will be responsible for the rest. Previously, it would be decided on the basis of real economic losses and the financial situation of local governments.
Before the arrival of translated floods, livestock and poultry animals that cannot be carried over time will be included in the compensation plan for the first time. Previously, only for compensation can be requested to lose only working animals.
In the summer of 2023, in Hebei, a state at the door of Beijing, about 1 million people, after record rain, forced to direct the waters from swollen rivers to some populated areas for storage and triggered anger over the houses and farms sacrificed to save Chinese capital.
China currently has a 98 -determined flood deflection areas covering large river basins, including the Yangtze River basin, which hosts one -third of the country’s population. Eight flood storage areas were used in the 2023 Hebei flood.
Chinese Meterology Administration officials told reporters on Friday, since the beginning of the East Asian Monsoon at the beginning of June, the rainfall in the middle and lower parts of Yangtze is twice as higher than normal.
Daily rainfall measured by 30 meteorological stations in other parts of China, in provinces such as Hubei and Guizhou broke a record for June.
Guizhou was the focal point of China’s flood -reduction efforts this week, one of the cities hit meteorologists on a scale that shocked 300,000 inhabitants that meteorologists could only be once every 50 years.
This encouraged to promise more space to allocate space for transportation and flooding areas of vulnerable population and industries on Thursday, Beijing on Thursday.
(Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Kim Coghill)
