[Explanation] On May 18, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the first national comprehensive risk survey of natural disasters.
According to Zheng Guoguang, Secretary-General of the National Disaster Reduction Commission, the first national comprehensive risk survey of natural disasters will be completed by the end of 2021. All provinces, regions, cities and counties must complete surveys of six types of disasters.
[Concurrent] Zheng Guoguang, Secretary-General of the National Disaster Reduction Commission
Before the end of the year (2021), all provinces, regions, cities and counties must complete surveys of six major types of disasters and historical disasters, as well as surveys of important disaster-bearing bodies in housing construction, municipal facilities, transportation facilities, public service systems, and the three industries.
In the first half of next year (2022), local census tasks will be basically completed.
In the second half of next year, comprehensive disaster risk assessment and zoning will be carried out at the national level by regions and types, forming a national and inter-provincial comprehensive prevention and control zone for natural disasters, and then summarizing the census work to form a national natural disaster risk assessment. Comprehensive disaster risk basic database.
[Explanation] China is a country with frequent occurrences of geological disasters. In response to the general survey of geological hazards in this risk survey, Yu Haifeng, Director of the Department of Geological Exploration Management of the Ministry of Natural Resources, introduced that this survey of geological hazards focused on the impact of geological disasters on people’s lives and property. Investigation and assessment of the resulting risks.
[Concurrent] Yu Haifeng, Director of the Department of Geological Prospecting Management, Ministry of Natural Resources
The geological disaster risk survey further highlighted the work concept of "shifting from focusing on post-disaster relief to focusing on pre-disaster prevention, and from reducing disaster losses to reducing disaster risk", focusing on investigating and focusing on the risks of geological disasters to people’s lives and property. Evaluation.
On the basis of the survey, the area is divided into geological disaster risk areas according to the four levels of high, high, medium and low; on the basis of risk zoning, comprehensive consideration of the needs of geological disaster prevention and mitigation, the area is divided into general prevention and control areas, The sub-key prevention and control areas and key prevention and control areas will eventually form a dynamically updated database of geological disasters of collapses, landslides, and mudslides at the national-province-city-county level.
[Explanation] In recent years, in the context of global climate change, extreme weather and climate events have occurred frequently.
Regarding the general survey of meteorological disaster risks in this risk census, Wang Zhihua, Director of the Department of Emergency Mitigation and Public Services of the China Meteorological Administration, introduced that the census will form meteorological disaster risk zoning and guide the entire social sciences to set the meteorological disaster prevention standards for various regional infrastructures. .
[Concurrent] Wang Zhihua, Director of the Emergency Mitigation and Public Service Department of China Meteorological Administration
In this natural disaster risk survey, the meteorological department undertook the risk survey of 9 types of meteorological disasters including torrential rain, drought, typhoon, high temperature, low temperature, wind and hail, snow disaster, thunder and lightning, and sandstorm. Among them, hail disasters are covered. High winds, hail and tornadoes.
The meteorological disaster risk zoning formed through the census can guide the whole society to scientifically set disaster prevention standards for various regional infrastructures, and it is more conducive to us to promote the construction of resilient cities and resilient villages, and fundamentally improve our ability to withstand various meteorological disasters.
Dong Zeyu reports from Beijing
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]