Fogang County achieves full coverage of large loudspeakers in rural areas to solve the "last mile" of early warning information transmission
Qingyuan Fogang is one of the three major rainstorm centers in Guangdong, with frequent meteorological and secondary disasters. In order to further solve the "last mile" problem of early warning information transmission in rural areas of Fogang County and improve grassroots emergency response and disaster prevention capabilities, the Fogang County Party Committee and County Government listed the "Rural Revitalization Emergency Warning Loudspeaker System Project" as one of the ten livelihood issues in 2020. One of the practical things is to focus on building a large loudspeaker system that covers natural villages.
Today, Fogang has completed the rural revitalization emergency warning loudspeaker project. 350 sets of weather warning loudspeaker terminal equipment have been installed in 78 administrative villages and 272 major natural villages, basically achieving full coverage in rural areas. Before the 2021 New Year's Eve cold wave meteorological disaster arrives, the meteorological department will use the newly installed rural loudspeakers to inform villagers to take cold protection measures in advance to reduce disaster losses.
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Release forecast and warning information as soon as possible
Meteorological disasters occur frequently in Fogang County, posing serious threats to the safety of people's lives and property. Due to the complex and diverse terrain in Fogang County and dispersed residents, there are blind spots in receiving and transmitting meteorological warning information in rural areas, and there are many weak links in disaster prevention and reduction work.
In recent years, affected by global warming, disastrous weather records have been continuously refreshed. Especially during the day from noon on June 7 to 9, 2020, Fogang experienced the strongest precipitation process since meteorological records were recorded. Extremely heavy rains occurred in 6 towns in the county. The average cumulative rainfall during the process was 409.6 mm, and 9 stations exceeded 400 mm, posing a serious threat to the safety of people's lives and property.
The implementation of the "Fogang County Rural Revitalization Emergency Early Warning Loudspeaker Project" can greatly improve Fogang's ability to release early warning information, so that the early warning information covers all administrative villages and major natural villages in the county, so that the general public can Receive forecast and warning information at once and take timely response measures to avoid and reduce casualties and disaster losses.
In addition, although today's network communication technology has enriched the channels for rural areas to obtain information, there are still certain blind spots in information coverage in rural areas, especially in mountainous areas where the level of economic development is relatively lagging, and infrastructure construction and public services are still limited. *Service is weak. Rural loudspeakers can shorten the distance between the party and the government and farmers, build a broadcast service platform, accelerate the transformation and promotion of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, activate the rural consumer market, and help rural revitalization.
Large speakers basically cover the entire rural area of the county
It is understood that Fogang began to install large speakers in 78 village committee office buildings in the county in 2012. However, due to the long use time of the equipment, Aging and insufficient functions affect normal use. During the epidemic in early 2020, Fogang used rural emergency warning loudspeakers to promote epidemic prevention knowledge, which was the first initiative in the province.
The Fogang County Party Committee and County Government listed the "Fogang County Rural Revitalization Emergency Warning Loudspeaker System Project" as one of the ten practical matters for people's livelihood in 2020, which will be implemented by the County Meteorological Bureau. In 2020, with the joint efforts of relevant units and towns and villages, the construction unit overcame difficulties such as wide installation points and complex installation conditions, successfully completed the installation of 350 sets of large speaker terminals, and started business trials in early September. run. In addition to the 78 administrative village committees, loudspeakers are also installed in 272 major natural villages, basically covering the entire county's rural areas. The equipment is also connected to the Guangdong Provincial Emergency Warning Information Release System, enabling one-click rapid release.
The newly installed rural revitalization emergency warning loudspeaker system equipment has been greatly improved in terms of performance, intelligent broadcasting, and safe broadcasting. It has the functions of text-to-speech, voice live broadcast, recording and broadcasting, etc., and realizes Mandarin , Cantonese, Hakka and other multi-lingual broadcasts, solving the problem of elderly people not being able to understand Mandarin broadcasts. The system platform is installed on the mobile company's cloud and has multiple security measures, greatly improving broadcast security. At present, the loudspeaker release system has been connected to the Guangdong Provincial Emergency Warning Information Release System and the county media center to realize full sharing of resources. The radio station broadcasts two livelihood information programs every day.
“Since the loudspeaker sounded in the village, we can listen to the weather forecast without going to the village committee,” said villagers in the Shanju Village Group of Nuangkeng Village, Tangtang Town, Fogang County. “The newly built loudspeaker The loudspeakers have Cantonese broadcasts, and the elderly in the village can understand them, and can better arrange production based on the broadcasts."
According to the staff of the Fogang County Meteorological Bureau, in addition to releasing weather information every day, the current rural revitalization emergency warning loudspeaker also increases rural epidemic prevention and control in accordance with the requirements of the County Party Committee Propaganda Department and the County Forest Fire Prevention Office. Forest fire prevention propaganda. In the future, while giving full play to the role of disaster prevention and reduction, Big Speaker will also actively cooperate with relevant departments in epidemic prevention and control, policies to benefit farmers, environmental sanitation management, poverty alleviation, crackdown on gangs and evil, forest fire prevention, prevention of drowning accidents and military recruitment. and other publicity work to play a better role in promoting rural economic development and social security and stability in Fogang.