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[State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters Deploys All-Out Efforts to Ensure Flood Prevention, Emergency Rescue and Disaster Relief During Critical Period] Reporters learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management on the 30th that the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters recently issued a notice requiring all localities, relevant departments, and river basin flood control and drought relief headquarters to be aware of the sudden, extreme, and uncertain nature of disastrous weather, implement detailed flood prevention, emergency rescue and disaster relief measures, and make every effort to protect the safety of people's lives and property and overall social stability. The notice requires that saving lives be prioritized, with all efforts made to search and rescue missing and trapped persons, give full play to the leading role of the national comprehensive fire and rescue team, and the role of the People's Liberation Army and armed police force commandos, actively organize professional teams such as central enterprises and social forces to participate in rescue operations, and swiftly carry out search and rescue, emergency response, water rescue, and road clearing. Weak links and key areas in flood control, such as small and medium-sized rivers, dangerous sections of dikes, small and medium-sized dangerous reservoirs and "overhead reservoirs," areas at risk of flash floods and geological disasters, as well as low-lying and easily flooded areas, construction sites, nursing homes, primary and secondary schools, and hospitals, must be closely monitored and protected, with targeted hidden danger inspections and rectifications promptly carried out to prevent all types of secondary disasters. The disaster warning "call and response" and follow-up feedback mechanism directly reaching grassroots responsible personnel must be strictly implemented, forming a closed-loop work cycle of warning, response, action, feedback, and verification. The "four uniform" requirements for evacuation and risk avoidance must be strictly implemented, and threatened people must be resolutely and decisively relocated and resettled. Special attention must be paid to the safety of crowded places such as nursing homes, primary and secondary schools, and hospitals during the flood season. Emergency plans must be implemented on a "one-point, one-policy" basis, and the responsibilities for "call and response" transfers must be detailed. "One-on-one" evacuation and risk avoidance measures must be implemented for special groups such as the elderly, left-behind children, and the disabled, ensuring that all those who need to be relocated are relocated as soon as possible, and that evacuations are expanded in extreme cases. (Xinhua News Agency)