China News Service, May 7th. Zhou Xuewen, member of the Party Committee and Vice Minister of the Emergency Management Department, said on the 7th that the emergency management system of a major country with Chinese characteristics has basically taken shape.
On the morning of the 7th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on preventing and dissolving disaster risks and building a foundation for safe development.
At the meeting, Zhou Xuewen introduced that in the past three years, the Department of Emergency Management has won tough battles one after another in preventing and responding to a series of disasters such as floods, typhoons, barrier lakes, and forest fires, and resolved major risks one after another. The advantages of the new mechanism and new team of the department have been continuously demonstrated.
According to statistics, the number of people killed and missing due to disasters, the number of houses collapsed due to disasters, and the proportion of direct economic losses from disasters accounted for the proportion of GDP. The three-year average of 2018-2020 is 36.6% and 63.7% lower than the three-year average of 2015-2017, respectively. , 31.3%, especially in the face of the double test of the pandemic and flood in 2020, successfully defeated the most serious flood disaster since 1998, and the number of deaths and missing persons due to flood disaster is the lowest in history.
Three years of practice has proved that the Party Central Committee’s decision to form an emergency management department is wise and correct, and that the emergency management system of a major country with Chinese characteristics has basically taken shape.
Data map: On April 7, a forest fire broke out in Nancuo Village, Haikou Town, Fuqing City, Fujian Province. Fujian Forest Fire Commanders put out the fire overnight.
Photo by Lu Yizhi
Zhou Xuewen said that in the past three years, we have insisted on organizing while emergency, running-in and upgrading, and insisted on achieving the "five outstanding" in our work.
One is to highlight the role of comprehensive coordination.
Give full play to the coordination and coordination role of the National Disaster Reduction Commission and other deliberation and coordination agencies, and strengthen the integrated management of disaster prevention, rescue and relief.
Give full play to the comprehensive advantages of emergency management departments and the professional advantages of relevant departments to connect the responsibility chain of "prevention" and "rescue".
Over the past three years, more than 170 national emergency responses have been initiated, and the coordinated and efficient response mechanism of various departments has been gradually improved.
The second is to highlight preparedness for natural disasters.
Establish a 365-day 24-hour on-duty system led by ministry leaders, insist on daily dispatch and consultation during holidays and key periods, and maintain an emergency state at all times.
In response to prominent problems such as "disruption, chaos, and slowness" at the catastrophe response site, the response plans for strength, materials, communications, and transportation were improved one by one, and the plans were improved through continuous training and drills.
Work with relevant departments to speed up the implementation of key natural disaster prevention and control projects, and focus on improving the overall capacity of the society in disaster prevention, mitigation and disaster relief.
The third is to highlight the prevention and response of hidden risks.
In conjunction with relevant departments, the first national comprehensive risk survey of natural disasters was organized to find out and grasp major hidden risks, establish a database of hidden risks, and strengthen source governance.
Responding to small-probability events with high-probability thinking, deploying in advance, pre-positioning forces, implementing flat command, front-to-back docking, and successfully coping with super typhoons "Mangosteen", "Lichma" and severe floods in 2020, etc. Catastrophic disaster.
The fourth is to highlight the building of emergency rescue capabilities.
Accelerate the construction of the main force and the national team, promote the transformation and upgrading of the national comprehensive fire rescue team, strengthen the equipment, and undertake the comprehensive rescue tasks for all disasters and major emergencies. Since the transfer to the government, more than 1.45 million people in distress have been rescued and evacuated.
Accelerate the construction of backbone forces, make up for the shortcomings of professional teams, and newly set up 461 earthquake disaster rescue teams, and 27 rescue teams for geology, mountains, and waters.
Accelerate the construction of auxiliary forces and promote the healthy development of social emergency forces. Through holding national skills competitions and organizing joint exercises and training, social emergency rescue forces have developed rapidly. At present, 1,775 units and more than 620,000 people have been registered.
Accelerate the construction of collaborative capabilities, and orderly promote the construction of regional emergency rescue centers, emergency command platform systems, and national aviation rescue systems to ensure unified dispatch, unified action, and unified support for all types of emergency teams.
The fifth is to highlight basic capacity building.
Promote the legislative work of natural disaster prevention, revise and improve emergency plans, and organize drills frequently, and continuously improve the pertinence, operability and practicality of the plans.
Establish a big data platform for emergency management, integrate relevant data to form a "picture" of emergency management, grasp the situation in real time, and make scientific command and decision-making.
Organize a team of more than 800,000 grassroots disaster information personnel across the country to carry out disaster risk reporting, so as to achieve early detection, early warning, and early disposal of hidden dangers.
Organize and carry out the popularization of disaster prevention and mitigation knowledge into enterprises, rural areas, communities, schools, and families, so as to enhance the awareness of disaster prevention and avoidance of the whole society and the ability of self-help and mutual rescue.
Zhou Xuewen said that May 12 this year is the 13th National Day for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, with the theme of "Preventing and Resolving Disaster Risks, and Building a Foundation for Safe Development."
The National Disaster Reduction Commission made arrangements in advance to guide relevant departments in various regions to strengthen disaster prevention and control capacity building and disaster hidden danger investigation and remediation efforts, make every effort to prevent and resolve major disaster risks, and provide strong security guarantees for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party.