BEIJING: Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong has called for efforts to improve health and epidemic prevention and restore agricultural production in areas impacted by the recent flooding disasters.
Liu, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the comments during his inspection tour in Hebei and Beijing on Friday, during which he visited flood detention areas and affected villages.
He stressed the need to ensure that major epidemics do not break out after the floods and that bumper harvests are achieved throughout the year.
It is a crucial period for the autumn grain crop yield, said Liu, adding that it is necessary to promptly mobilize farmers to resume crop production according to local conditions.
Liu said relevant departments should increase support, make good use of agricultural disaster relief funds and strengthen credit and insurance claim settlement services to help the affected areas swiftly resume agricultural production.
Considering the high temperatures, epidemic prevention measures should also be taken as an important task of flood control and relief to protect people’s health, Liu added. Earlier last month, Liu made the remarks while addressing the opening ceremony of the Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2023 in Guiyang, Guizhou province.
He said the Chinese government attaches great importance to advancing ecological civilization and will continue to accelerate the greening of its development patterns, strengthen control of pollution and enhance the diversity, stability and sustainability of ecosystems.
The country will make more solid and orderly progress to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, he added. Liu noted that the two-day event, as a national-level and international forum, has been successfully held for 10 years and has become an important platform for promoting global ecological civilization construction and sustainable development.
The forum, with the theme of “Pursuing modernization of harmony between humanity and nature — promoting green and low-carbon development”, will have a positive and far-reaching impact through in-depth exchange of experiences and broad consensus building, he said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
