Chasing clouds and sowing rain to protect people's well-being! The second anniversary of the implementation of "Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Weather Modification Work"!
On December 2, 2020, The General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Weather Modification (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions), which clearly states that by 2025, the affected area of rain enhancement (snow) operations shall reach over 5.5 million square kilometers, and the protected area of artificial hail suppression operations shall reach over 580,000 square kilometers.It speaks loudly and reverberates powerfully. Today, two years later, this goal has almost been achieved. At present, the annual rainfall (snow) affected area of China has stabilized at 5 million square kilometers, accounting for more than half of the country's total land area, and the annual hail suppression area has expanded to more than 600,000 square kilometers.
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Night and day bandits, two years of spring and autumn. These achievements are the result of the careful organization of Party committees and governments at all levels, the deep efforts of meteorological departments and the concerted efforts of relevant departments. With the introduction and implementation of the Opinions, weather modification work has entered a period with the fastest development speed, the most extensive service areas and the most outstanding comprehensive benefits."Hoof disease" --
We will take multiple measures to reduce disaster risk, improve efficiency and increase profits
On November 16, the National Meteorological Center lifted a 90-day drought warning, the longest in history. From November 15 to 18, many parts of South China, which have been plagued by drought for a long time, received happy rain. Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi and other regions seized the weather to carry out artificial rain enhancement, affecting an area of about 800,000 square kilometers and adding about 400 million cubic meters of rain in total.During the 90 days, the China Meteorological Administration dispatched 5 high-performance rain enhancement aircraft and coordinated 2 large UAVs to Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Anhui and other places for support. A total of 50 cloud-seeding flights were carried out, with a total of 149 hours of flight time. The efficient use of the rain enhancement power of open space provided showers to many places and helped alleviate the drought. In addition, local governments have been actively carrying out ground rain enhancement operations, which have affected an estimated 1.485 million square kilometers.As weather modification improves, stories like this one are popping up all over China.The fields in my hometown generate income - "A good autumn rain, rape harvest next year more hope!" "This is the heaviest rain in four months for the drought-plagued sugarcane fields!" We will increase artificial rainfall in key farming times and arid farming areas, effectively supply water sources urgently needed for agricultural production, and provide a strong guarantee for successive harvests of grain in China. Detracting means increasing revenue. "The worry of 'one hail a year for nothing' is gone!" The meteorological authorities have closely monitored hail weather and carried out 54,000 artificial hail prevention operations since 2021 to November 21 this year, reducing the damage of fruit, tobacco and other cash crops that are highly sensitive to hail disaster and effectively helping local rural revitalization.The green area around increased -- "In recent years, more rain, less sand, lush water is recovering little by little." Every year from May to October is the prime time for pasture growth and ecological restoration in the Three River Headwaters area of Qinghai Province, and artificial rain enhancement provides timely support. Satellite remote sensing monitoring shows that in 2021, the lake area in Qinghai Lake's wet season reached 4,637.6 square kilometers, the largest area in the past 10 years. Artificial rain (snow) enhancement has also played an important role in key ecological protection areas, headwaters of major river basins and important reservoirs in the Qilian Mountains of Gansu Province, Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang Province and Danjiangkou of Hubei Province, effectively replenishment of ecological water and expanding the area of lakes and wetlands.The distant forest was saved -- "Just in time for the rain!" In August this year, wildfires occurred frequently in many places due to continued high temperatures. On the night of August 27, a wildfire broke out in Wuxing Town of Yibin, Sichuan province. The next day, the Weather Modification Center of the China Meteorological Administration dispatched an emergency drone to Yibin to help fight the wildfires. In the face of the new situation of comprehensive disaster prevention, reduction and relief, such as frequent summer high temperatures in the context of global warming, the meteorological departments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central government) have established cooperation mechanisms with emergency management and public security departments to provide disaster prevention, reduction and relief services and emergency support for weather modification.The Weather Modification Center of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), together with the Sichuan Meteorological Bureau, deployed two large unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform cloud-seeding operations in Sichuan province on Aug 25
The work requirements of scientific, precise and safe operations are throughout the whole process of weather modification operations, and step by step meet the people's expectations for good weather, for higher production and income, and for clear water and green mountains.
Policies, science and technology, and supervision will take multiple stepsWeather modification is one of the effective means of disaster prevention and mitigation.The meteorological departments have pursued both advantages and disadvantages, improved systems and mechanisms, pooled the wisdom of talents, accelerated scientific and technological innovation, and steadily advanced all work.
Top-level design, scientific planning, so that the operation more solid -The coordination among departments has been enhanced, the policy environment has been optimized, and the weather modification coordination conference system has been further improved. Party committees and governments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) have attached great importance to and actively promoted the high-quality development of weather modification, and successively issued relevant implementation opinions or implementation plans. The China Meteorological Administration issued the 14th Five-Year National Development Plan for Weather Modification, specifying the tasks for the development of weather modification in the next five years. The state has increased the number of weather modification engineers and technicians and operators of special weather modification operations, and set up innovative teams to provide a favorable environment for the development of weather modification. The project support continued to be strengthened, and the Action Plan for Weather Modification to "Cultivate Clouds" (2020-2022) was successfully concluded. The standardization of the real-time business of "Wuduan" was significantly improved. The standard system has been gradually improved. The National Technical Committee for Standardization of weather Modification has been set up, and the weather modification standards issued have become "hard constraints" for equipment and business access, and an institutional system covering the whole business chain has been established.Set superior resources, the strength of the department, so that the operation force is more powerfulThe China Meteorological Administration established a weather modification Center to strengthen its role as a national business leader and scientific and technological support, continue to promote the transformation and development of weather modification operations, and coordinate the construction of six regional weather modification centers. China has substantially improved its basic business capabilities, formed an initial force for sky, air and ground weather modification operations, gradually built a three-dimensional cloud water resource detection system with sophisticated monitoring and advanced technology, and innovatively established a unique weather modification business system with "four levels of operations vertical to the bottom and five stages of processes horizontal to the edge". A national fleet of internationally advanced rain enhancement aircraft has been built. To achieve rapid response, collaborative and efficient inter-provincial operations.On August 27, the China Meteorological Administration deployed several aircraft for the first time to increase rain for the South-to-North water diversion projectScientific and technological innovation has been strengthened, and a multi-source integrated cloud precipitation assimilation analysis and numerical forecasting system has been developed. The spatial resolution of refined model forecast products has reached 1 km nationwide. The catalytic efficiency of a new type of highly efficient domestically produced catalyst has increased by more than 100 times. In 2021, Ganlin-ⅰ, China's first large-scale weather modification drone, successfully made its maiden flight, solving the worldwide problem that drones are difficult to remove ice.
Better oversight, better performance, safer processes --A weather modification safety supervision mechanism of "Party committee leadership, government leadership and department collaboration" has been basically established, and weather modification safety has been included in the local production safety management assessment system. The ammunition safety performance of weather-modification operations has been gradually improved. The coverage rate of weather-modification ammunition and drug networking system has increased from 55% to over 70%. We are striving to realize whole-process monitoring of ammunition operations and real-time monitoring of ground operations, and the proportion of high-safety operation stations has increased to 89%.
Behind each number and measure, tangible results have been achieved and the people's sense of gain, happiness and security has been tangible.The journey of the wind is strong, the task of thousands of Jun start again. In striving to promote the high quality development of weather modification work to show new achievements and achieve new breakthroughs.
PubDate：2022-12-02
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