Premier Li Qiang chaired an executive meeting of the State Council on August 8 to implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on flood control and disaster relief work, hear reports on the current flood control and flood-fighting and disaster relief situation, and study measures for the next steps in flood control, emergency rescue and disaster relief, ensuring people's livelihoods, and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

The meeting emphasized that recently, affected by typhoons and heavy rainfall, some areas have suffered severe floods. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to this, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the affected people in various places, issued important instructions on many occasions, personally deployed and personally directed the work, and put forward clear requirements for continuing to do a good job in emergency rescue and disaster relief, emergency repair and restoration, and especially in ensuring the livelihoods of affected people, providing a fundamental guideline and strong impetus for flood control and disaster relief work.

The meeting noted that the flood season is not yet over, and there may still be typhoons making landfall and localized heavy rainfall later on, so the tasks of disaster relief and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction are arduous. All regions and departments must thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives, adhere to putting people and life first, earnestly carry out flood control and emergency rescue and disaster relief work, and make every effort to ensure the safety of people's lives and property and overall social stability. It is necessary to prepare for major floods and major emergencies, strengthen analysis and early warning, keep a close watch on key locations, and implement flood control and emergency rescue measures in a detailed and thorough manner to strictly prevent secondary disasters. Continue to make every effort to search for and rescue missing persons and minimize casualties. Do everything possible to ensure the basic livelihood of affected people, ensuring they have food, clothing, temporary shelter, clean drinking water, and timely access to medical treatment. Comprehensively carry out environmental disinfection and health and epidemic prevention to ensure no major epidemic after a major disaster. Accelerate the repair of roads, power supply, water supply, communications, and other facilities, ensure market supply and stabilize prices, and restore normal production and living order in disaster areas as soon as possible. Promptly repair disaster-damaged fields and agricultural facilities, increase support for the supply of agricultural materials, and organize farmers to actively replant and carry out remedial measures. Swiftly launch the restoration and reconstruction of disaster-damaged houses to ensure that affected people can return home or move into new homes before winter and spend the winter safely and warmly, accelerate the restoration and reconstruction of public facilities such as schools, hospitals, and nursing homes, and ensure that every affected student can return to school on time. It is necessary to take a long-term view, strengthen the planning and construction of water conservancy and other infrastructure in northern regions, and improve the ability to prevent and respond to floods and droughts.

The meeting required that relevant departments further increase support, promptly allocate various disaster relief funds, make advance allocations where possible, and provide compensation and assistance early. Financial institutions should strengthen credit support for business entities in disaster-affected areas, especially small and micro enterprises and self-employed individuals, as well as agricultural and breeding enterprises and farmers, open green channels for insurance claims, pay claims quickly where possible and pay all that should be paid, and minimize the impact of floods on economic and social development and people's lives.