Chinese officials deploy preparations for heavy snowfall in Tibet

China News Service, Beijing, October 28 (Reporter Chen Su) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management of China on the 28th that in the morning, the Office of the National Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management organized discussions with the Ministry of Natural Resources, the China Meteorological Administration and the Tibet Autonomous Region Federation to study and judge the development trend of the heavy snowfall in Tibet from the 29th to the 31st, and deploy prevention and response work.

The meteorological department predicts that due to the combined influence of the Bay of Bengal storm vortex and the westerly trough, there will be a snowfall weather process in most of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from the 29th. Among them, there will be heavy snowfall near the Himalayas in southern Tibet, heavy snowstorms in high-altitude areas, and local heavy snowstorms. Disaster risks cannot be ignored.

The discussion emphasized the need to strengthen monitoring, forecasting and early warning, closely monitor the process of heavy snowfall, intensify multi-department joint discussions and judgments, strengthen information sharing, and accurately release early warning information. It is necessary to strengthen the investigation of potential risks, strictly guard against the risks of border glacier lake outbursts, glacier collapse, avalanches, mudslides and secondary derivative disasters, and conduct in-depth investigations of potential risks in key areas such as transmission lines, ice-prone road sections, major projects, as well as dilapidated houses, agricultural facilities, livestock sheds and other structures.

The consultation called for strengthening disaster relief and assistance, focusing on the affected people in Naqubaqing and Shigatse Jilong, promptly allocating and distributing relief materials, accelerating the deployment and installation of resettlement houses, strengthening safety management of resettlement sites, strictly preventing fires, electric shocks, carbon monoxide poisoning and other accidents, and making every effort to ensure the basic livelihood of the affected people and their safety and warmth during the winter.