The System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief

Human understanding of the natural laws will never be complete. Disaster prevention, mitigation and relief are an eternal issue for humanity.

China suffers the greatest number of natural disasters in the world. The disasters are of various types, occurring frequently across a vast area, and causing great losses. This makes it both an urgent task and a long-term mission to reinforce its system for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief.

Since 2012, the central authorities have paid close attention to disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, and included this in the campaign to modernize the state governance system and capacity. They have coordinated major projects and institutional reforms to strengthen national disaster and risk governance. While prevention remains the priority, disaster prevention, resistance and relief will be combined to guarantee people's life and property security.

In December 2016, the central authorities issued a document on reforming the institutions and mechanisms for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, providing guidance for the whole society's capacity to forestall natural disasters.

At its 19th National Congress, the CPC announced a series of decisions: to promote safe development, and raise public awareness that life matters most and that safety comes first; to improve the public safety system and the responsibility system for workplace safety; to take resolute measures to prevent serious and major accidents; and to build up China's capacity for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief.

In April 2018, the Ministry of Emergency Management was established. Following this, China has included disaster prevention, mitigation and relief in emergency management, and accelerated the creation of a system for efficient, science-based prevention and control of natural disasters, as part of its effort to build a national emergency rescue system in the new era and enhance its comprehensive capacity against disasters, so as to provide strong guarantee to people's life and property security and national security.

防災減災救災體系

人類對自然規律的認知沒有止境，防災減災、抗災救災是人類生存發展的永恒課題。中國是世界上自然災害最嚴重的國家之一，災害種類多、分布地域廣、發生頻率高、造成損失重。因此，加強防災減災救災體系建設，既是一項緊迫任務，又是一項長期任務。

中共十八大以來，以習近平同志為核心的中共中央高度重視防災減災救災工作，將防災減災救災作為國家治理體系和治理能力現代化的重要內容，統籌部署重大工程建設和體制機制改革，推動災害風險治理能力不斷提升。中國創新發展新時代應急管理理念，堅持以防為主、防災抗災救災相結合，全面提升綜合防災能力，為人民生命財產安全提供堅實保障。

2016年12月，中共中央、國務院印發《關于推進防災減災救災體制機制改革的意見》，為全面提升全社會抵御自然災害的綜合防范能力作出指導。2017年10月，中共十九大報告指出，要樹立安全發展理念，弘揚生命至上、安全第一的思想，健全公共安全體系，完善安全生產責任制，堅決遏制重特大安全事故，提升防災減災救災能力。2018年4月，國家應急管理部成立，將防災減災救災納入應急管理工作，加快建立高效科學的自然災害防治體系，構建新時代國家應急救援體系，全面提升綜合防災能力，為保護人民群眾生命財產安全和國家安全提供有力保障。