同志们:今天我们召集各大行政区,中央直属各省,和各流域水利机关,举行全国防汛会议,这是一个很重要的会议。由于去年的洪水,在全国广大地区,造成或轻或重的水灾,使人民生活与农业生产受到很大的损失,所以今年战胜洪水,克服水患,是恢复与发展农业生产当中的一个必要的保证。 Comrades: Today we convene the major administrative regions, the provinces directly under the Central Government, the water conservancy organs of all the river valleys and the holding of a national flood prevention conference. This is an important meeting. Because last year’s floods caused heavy or light floods in vast areas of the country, causing great losses to people’s livelihood and agricultural production, overcoming flooding this year and overcoming floods is a necessary guarantee for the restoration and development of agricultural production .