Emergency Management Department： By 2035, we will basically realize the modernization of natural disaster prevention and control system and prevention and control capacity.

　　CCTV News:On July 21st, the Emergency Management Department held a regular press conference in July.

　　The reporter from CCTV Financial Channel at Headquarters asked: What are the main objectives and tasks set by the National Comprehensive Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Plan during the Tenth Five-Year Plan? What are the highlights? Thank you!

　　Chen Sheng, Director of the Monitoring and Disaster Reduction Department of the Emergency Management Department, responded that the overall goal of the Plan anchored the 14th Five-Year Plan for China’s national economic and social development and the outline of the long-term goal in 2035. From the first stage to 2025, a natural disaster prevention and control system with overall planning and high efficiency, clear responsibilities, combination of prevention and control, social participation and coordination with high-quality economic and social development will be basically established; In the second stage, we will strive to basically modernize the natural disaster prevention and control system and prevention and control capacity by 2035, and the prevention and response to major disasters will be more powerful, orderly and effective.

　　Under the overall goal, the Plan defines 6 sub-goals and 2 major sections and 12 major tasks.

　　First, around the improvement of institutional mechanisms, on the one hand, we will strengthen standardization, revise and improve laws and regulations on disaster prevention and mitigation, establish and improve the investigation and evaluation system for major and extraordinary disasters, improve all kinds of disaster emergency plans and standards and norms in various fields, on the other hand, we will strengthen mechanism construction, establish and improve the comprehensive coordination mechanism for natural disaster prevention and control, and improve the work pattern of joint management and coordination.

　　Second, focus on disaster risk reduction, highlight source control, incorporate disaster risk assessment into the requirements of national spatial planning, build a national comprehensive risk database of natural disasters, and prepare a comprehensive risk map and a prevention and control zoning map. The public coverage of early warning information will reach 90%, and the average annual death rate per million people will be controlled within 1, and the average number of people affected by disasters per 100,000 people will be less than 15,000, so as to minimize disaster risks.

　　Third, focus on efficient disaster relief, set up a central disaster relief material reserve, improve the emergency response mechanism and various rescue policies, strengthen the linkage between early warning and emergency response, effectively help the basic livelihood of the affected people within 10 hours of the disaster, and effectively ensure the safety of the people’s lives in the first place.

　　Fourth, focus on consolidating the foundation of disaster prevention and mitigation, deploy major projects to build scientific and technological support capacity for disaster prevention and mitigation, encourage the development of disaster prevention and mitigation industries, consolidate the grass-roots organization system for disaster prevention and mitigation, and extensively carry out popular science education on disaster prevention and mitigation. Every village (community) in urban and rural areas throughout the country has at least one disaster information officer.