The meeting pointed out that this year's climate in China has deviated from the usual pattern, with frequent and prolonged heavy rainfall events, early occurrence and rapid development of river floods, and repeated heavy rainfall impacts in some areas. The situation of flood prevention and control is severe and complex.  

The meeting emphasized that China is currently in a critical period of "seven lower and eight upper" flood control. The flood control peak, dam breach prevention, and drainage pressure in the Yangtze River and other river basins are not decreasing, while the Yellow River, Huai River, Haihe River, and Songliao River basins may experience severe flood situations. Coupled with the active period of typhoons, the flood control situation is even more severe and complex. All relevant regions, departments, and units should always tighten the string of flood prevention and control, firmly grasp the initiative of work, and resolutely win the tough battle of flood prevention, control, and disaster relief.

The meeting pointed out that safeguarding people's lives and safety should always be the top priority, further improving monitoring methods, enhancing the accuracy of early warning, strengthening the linkage between early warning and emergency response, improving response speed, highlighting defense priorities, keeping a close eye on grassroots and peripheral areas, decisively transferring dangerous areas in advance, and minimizing casualties. To ensure the safety of important embankments, reservoirs, and infrastructure, implement the flood prevention inspection and defense system, highlight the key defense of weak embankment sections, dangerous construction and dangerous sections, and sick and dangerous reservoirs, increase efforts to inspect and eliminate risks, and resolutely avoid breaches of major river embankments and dam collapses of large and key medium-sized reservoirs. We need to scientifically schedule flood control projects and refine the preparation for the use of flood storage and detention areas. We need to further investigate risks and hidden dangers, implement emergency measures, and ensure safe operation for important infrastructure such as the South to North Water Diversion Project, West to East Gas Pipeline, highways and railways, as well as key areas such as urban underground spaces, bridges, culverts, and tunnels.

The meeting emphasized the need to make every effort to carry out emergency rescue and disaster relief, strengthen overall deployment and advance preparation. The People's Liberation Army, People's Armed Police Force, Fire Department, central enterprises and other forces should always maintain an emergency state, obey unified dispatch, and ensure rapid deployment and efficient rescue. Timely allocation of disaster relief funds, transportation of disaster relief materials, acceleration of insurance claims, proper resettlement of disaster stricken people, and ensuring the needs of the masses for medical treatment and student enrollment. We must urgently repair damaged infrastructure such as water conservancy, electricity, transportation, and communication, and organize and lead the affected people to restore production and rebuild their homes. We must solidly carry out agricultural disaster prevention and reduction work, minimize agricultural losses to the greatest extent possible, and ensure national food security. We should care about and help the people in need of disaster relief, and prevent poverty from returning to poverty due to disasters. We need to strengthen the construction of emergency support capabilities, improve urban flood control and drainage capabilities, make up for the shortcomings of flood control projects such as dangerous reservoirs, small and medium-sized river embankments, flood storage and detention areas, and farmland drainage, make good use of the comprehensive risk survey results of natural disasters, strengthen grassroots emergency foundations and forces, and continuously improve the comprehensive disaster reduction capabilities of the whole society.

The meeting requires that party committees and governments at all levels should conscientiously implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and effectively shoulder the political responsibility of promoting development and ensuring peace in one area. The National Defense Headquarters should strengthen overall coordination, and leaders at all levels should rely on forward command. All relevant parties should closely cooperate and gather strength. Grassroots party organizations and the vast number of party members and cadres should fully play the role of battle fortresses and exemplary pioneers, bravely take the lead and shoulder their responsibilities on the front line of flood prevention, flood control, and disaster relief, and make every effort to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

The meeting also discussed other matters