Appointed by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, Zhang Guoqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, led comrades in charge of relevant parties to rush to Mentougou District of Beijing to guide flood control, rescue and disaster relief at noon on August 1. He emphasized that saving people should be given top priority at present, further strengthening overall command and scheduling, fully leveraging the role of various rescue teams, racing against time to search and rescue lost and trapped personnel, and minimizing casualties. We must do everything possible and take all possible measures to accelerate the transportation of food, drinking water, medicine, and other materials to the relocation and resettlement sites of the affected people, ensuring their basic living needs. We need to continue to mobilize and dispatch more professional forces and equipment, accelerate the repair and restoration of damaged railways, highways, bridges, as well as important infrastructure such as communication and electricity, and open up the lifeline of emergency rescue as soon as possible. At the same time, it is necessary to strictly prevent secondary disasters, provide safety protection for rescue personnel, and plan for early recovery and reconstruction. All relevant parties, especially central enterprises, should strongly support Beijing in carrying out emergency rescue, disaster relief, and recovery and reconstruction. Zhang Guoqing pointed out that at the most strenuous stage of "seven under eight" flood control, we must firmly establish the bottom line thinking and limit thinking, base on the most unfavorable situation, make the most adequate preparation, comprehensively strengthen disaster prevention and response, and make every effort to ensure safe flood prevention. We should closely monitor weather changes, strengthen consultation and judgment, monitoring and early warning, and emergency linkage, closely monitor weak links such as mountain flood geological disaster risk areas, urban and rural low-lying areas prone to waterlogging, strengthen risk and hidden danger investigation, transfer threatened populations in advance, and strictly prevent group deaths and injuries. We must strictly implement the duty system during the flood season, ensure that sudden situations are promptly and scientifically dealt with, and minimize disaster losses. (New News Agency)