Disaster prevention in Hung Yen: 'Prevention is key, people are the root'

Faced with unpredictable natural disasters, Hung Yen province has identified climate change prevention, response and adaptation as a key, long-term strategic task.

Hung Yen currently has a relatively synchronous system of natural disaster prevention and control works (PCTT), playing an important role in protecting the safety of residents, infrastructure and socio-economic development of the locality. The whole province has 18 dike routes including 8 river dikes, 6 estuary dikes and 4 sea dikes, with a total length of 430.3 km, passing through 63 communes and wards.

Pumping stations are regularly inspected and reinforced to serve drainage work. Photo: Tien Trung.

With the motto "Proactive prevention, timely response, urgent and effective remediation, in which prevention is the main focus", Hung Yen is promoting the combined strength of the entire political system, enhancing response capacity from the provincial to grassroots levels.

Be proactive from the beginning of the rainy season

According to Mr. Bui Quang Le, Deputy Head of the Hung Yen Irrigation Sub-Department: From the beginning of the year, the dike system and pumping stations were carefully inspected to detect early damage and weaknesses that could threaten the safety of the works. Vulnerable locations were included in the key list, with specific protection plans, mobilizing forces, materials, equipment and logistics according to the "four on-site" motto: on-site command, on-site forces, on-site materials, on-site logistics.

In 2025, the province has identified 63 key areas that need special attention, including 5 provincial-level key areas, 54 key areas on river dykes and 9 key areas on sea dykes and river estuaries. On that basis, Hung Yen has proactively allocated investment resources, consolidated, upgraded, handled landslides, and repaired essential items to ensure safety before the storm season. At the same time, short-term, medium-term and long-term public investment plans have also been systematically developed, aiming to improve the capacity of natural disaster prevention works in the coming period.

Prepare response plans for natural disasters. Photo: Tien Trung.

Along with strengthening infrastructure, Hung Yen pays special attention to tightening the management of dikes and irrigation works. The authorities regularly check, detect and strictly handle violations such as encroachment on dike corridors, illegal construction of factories and illegal gathering of materials on river banks. The province also resolutely directs the clearance and removal of obstacles in the dike protection corridor and river banks to ensure flood drainage capacity and limit the risk of inundation and landslides.

Not only stopping at technical work, Hung Yen also considers raising community awareness in natural disaster prevention. Propaganda work is carried out in a diverse and rich way: from radio, television, print media, social networks to grassroots loudspeakers. Messages are designed to be concise, easy to remember, combining images, videos, infographics to better reach people.

Flexible response to all situations

According to Mr. Bui Quang Le, the province organizes practical activities linking disaster prevention and control work with people's lives such as conferences, meetings, training on house bracing skills, evacuation, first aid, and drills on some dike incident situations to improve skills in handling possible natural disasters for the forces participating in disaster prevention and control work in the locality.

Disaster prevention and search and rescue drill. Photo: Tien Trung.

Notably, Hung Yen also invested in building small-scale projects to prevent, combat and mitigate natural disasters in the community, and installed early warning systems in high-risk areas. Natural disaster risk maps are established and updated periodically, linked to the risk management database and socio-economic development plans of each locality.

The spirit of "prevention is the main thing, people are the root" is not only reflected in the motto of action, but has become the guiding principle for the entire political system of Hung Yen province.

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