Disaster Management System to Be Upgraded
China has unveiled an ambitious plan to enhance its capability in disaster prevention and mitigation during the 14th Five-year Plan period (2021-25), vowing to build up an emergency management system that can better adapt to the global crisis of climate change.
The plan aims to shore up weak spots in the country’s infrastructure for preventing and mitigating disasters, bringing them up to speed with the modernization process of the country’s governance system and capacity.
During the 13th Five-year Plan period (2016-20), the goal was less than 1.3 natural disaster-related deaths among every million people in a year, with the actual outcome only 0.7, according to the ministry. The country will endeavor to reduce disaster hazards to the upmost.
The plan includes many arrangements that are made especially against the backdrop of global warming. One of the priorities in the plan is to make breakthroughs in developing disaster prevention and mitigation technologies based on research to better know how natural disaster-causing events form and develop with climate change.
China is among the countries most affected by extreme weather events with over 70 percent of natural disasters in the country related to such events.