All localities actively responded to Typhoon Du Surui and made every effort to provide emergency rescue and living materials.
CCTV News:Typhoon Du Surui weakened in intensity. Today (July 29th) morning, the Central Meteorological Observatory stopped numbering it. Affected by its circulation continuing northward, rainy weather appeared in many places.
Rainfall continues in many places in Fujian. Rainfall caused water accumulation in urban areas such as Fuzhou and Putian, and some villages were flooded. At present, Fujian is mobilizing forces to ensure the living materials of the affected people. The resident people’s soldiers also rushed to help, transferred the masses, cleared roadblocks, and assisted local rescue and disaster relief.
Affected by the typhoon circulation northward, today, rainy weather occurred in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei, Liaoning and other places.
Today, the National Defense General upgraded the emergency response of flood control in the six provinces of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, Shanxi and Lu Yu to Grade III, and sent four additional working groups to supervise and inspect key areas and the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project.
Today, the trains in Nanchang Bureau and Guangzhou Bureau of China Railway basically resumed normal operation.
The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that due to the influence of typhoon residual circulation, there will be large-scale obvious rainfall in East China and North China in the next two days, so attention should be paid to preventing secondary disasters that may be caused by heavy rainfall.
Fujian makes every effort to do emergency rescue and provide people with living materials.
As the intensity of Typhoon No.5 "Du Surui" weakened this year, at 21: 00 last night (July 28th), the Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters of Fujian Provincial People’s Government reduced the emergency response against typhoon to level 3 and maintained the emergency response against rainstorm level 1.
Zou Chunye, Director of Flood Control and Drought Relief Department of Fujian Provincial Emergency Management Department:While continuing to do a good job in typhoon and rainstorm prevention, our province has devoted itself to the emergency rescue work in the affected areas, mainly to restore access, water supply, electricity supply and network access as soon as possible, and to do a good job in ensuring the living materials of the affected people, and to send more rescue forces to the severely affected areas one after another.
As of 17: 00 yesterday, according to preliminary statistics, the typhoon has caused 725,000 people in 9 districts and cities including Quanzhou City, Fujian Province to be affected, and 310,600 people have been evacuated in an emergency. At present, the disaster situation is under further statistics.
Xiamen has ended the "three stops and one rest" and resumed production and life in an orderly manner.
Xiamen ended its typhoon emergency response at 20: 00 yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, the "three stops and one rest" ended in the whole city, and the production and living order resumed in an orderly manner.
According to the actual arrangement, the ports, ferries and routes that have been suspended will resume, and public transportation such as subways and buses will resume operation, and all cross-sea passages and viaducts will resume traffic.
Railway department starts emergency response to ensure transportation safety
At 9: 55 on July 28th, the No.5 typhoon "Du Surui" landed in the coastal area of Jinjiang City, Fujian Province, and the maximum wind force near the center was 15 when landing. Nanchang Bureau of China Railway fully launched the Class I emergency response of Fujian Railway flood prevention platform.
In order to cope with the violent wind and rainstorm weather brought by the super typhoon and ensure the safety of railway transportation, Nanchang Bureau urgently stopped 388 passenger trains, and integrated the emergency forces such as Hangzhou-Shenzhen Line, Xingquan Line and Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway Quanzhou-Jinjiang Section, etc. 18 passenger stations such as Xiamen Station, Zhangzhou Station, Quanzhou Station, Jinjiang Station and Putian Station have stopped handling passenger services, and made good inspections on railway lines, stations, equipment and facilities before the trains resumed operation.
Meng Weili, Monitoring Analyst of Fuzhou Power Supply Section Safety Production Dispatching Center:In order to prevent the influence of Typhoon No.5 "Du Surui" on our railway power supply equipment, after the typhoon landed, our on-site staff will immediately carry out patrol inspection on the railway power supply equipment to ensure that the power supply equipment is in good condition.
As the impact of Typhoon Du Surui on Guangdong weakened, Guangzhou Bureau quickly launched a line inspection after the typhoon. From 12: 00 on the 28th, the Hangzhou-Shenzhen Railway of Guangzhou Bureau and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed train gradually resumed operation.
Refund of stopped trains can be handled at the railway station or on line 12306.
The railway department reminds passengers who have purchased tickets for stopped trains that they don’t need to go to the train station for refund in the rain. All tickets for stopped trains can be refunded free of charge at the refund window of any train station in China or through the 12306 line within 30 days from the date of boarding (including the day).