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participation of enterprises and the public in disaster reduction and relief work. • Strengthening information sharing. China’s disaster-related departments have experimented with and established information sharing mechanisms with insurance companies, reinsurance companies, and insurance regulators, and they jointly carried out major research projects, such as catastrophe insurance, which has pushed forward and improved the application of risk assessment tools in the practice of disaster reduction and relief. • Adhering to the principle of government leadership and social participation. The government should play a leading role while society should participate in the process of natural disaster risk management. In this process in China, on the whole, the government still plays a leading role and is actively guiding the development of a market mechanism and building a public cooperative mechanism, in which the government, enterprises, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals participate in disaster management. With resource integration and optimization, tremendous synergy has been created for natural disaster risk prevention. Priority Areas of China’s Natural Disaster Risk Management in the Future Against the backdrop of global climate change, China is suffering from more severe natural disaster risks. Risks from droughts, floods, typhoons, low temperatures, ice and snow storms, high temperatures and heat waves, sandstorms, plant diseases, and insect pests have increased, and disasters such as collapse, landslides, mudrock flows, and mountain torrents have been on the rise. The temporal and spatial distribution of disasters, losses incurred by disasters, and the intensity and scope of their impact have changed, and disasters have become increasingly unexpected, abnormal, and unpredictable. Natural disasters have become a major factor that hinders China’s economic and social development. In the coming years, the Chinese government will actively implement its National Comprehensive Disaster Prevention and Reduction Plan (2011–15) and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters to promote the development of major natural disaster–related projects and continually improve the nation’s capabilities for comprehensive natural disaster risk management. Strengthening the Capacity Building of Natural Disaster Monitoring and Early Warning China will accelerate the development of natural disaster monitoring and early warning systems and improve the monitoring network of natural disasters. It will strengthen the development of monitoring stations to monitor natural disasters, such as meteorological, hydrological, earthquake, geological, agricultural, forestry, oceanic, grassland, and wild animal epidemic hazards, and strengthen information sharing among different departments to avoid duplication of construction. It will improve the natural disaster forecasting, early warning, and information release mechanism to strengthen the early warning capabilities with regard to natural disasters. It will also enhance national space information infrastructure for disaster prevention and reduction to improve its capabilities of comprehensive observation, high-resolution observation, and emergency observation of natural disasters. Strengthening Capacity Building for Disaster Prevention and Reduction Information Management and Services China will improve its management in disaster prevention and reduction information and make scientific plans and effectively use various types of information resources to expand channels and means to obtain information and improve information handling and analysis capabilities. Improving the Assessment of Disaster Risks to Strengthen Financial Resilience 129
It will study the feasibility of establishing a national comprehensive disaster prevention and reduction database to improve the dynamic updating mechanism for disaster information. It will strengthen disaster prevention and reduction information sharing capabilities and study the feasibility of establishing a national comprehensive disaster prevention and reduction and risk management information platform to improve the integration, intelligent treatment and services of disaster prevention and reduction information. It will also strengthen information exchanges, and coordination services among relevant departments at all levels on disaster prevention and reduction. Strengthening Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Risk Management China will strengthen its comprehensive risk management of natural disasters at the national level and improve measures for mitigating disaster risks. It will establish a natural disaster risk transfer and sharing mechanism and experiment with a multiplayer mechanism, including fiscal and financial tools, to achieve economic compensation and loss sharing when natural disasters hit and to accelerate the establishment of the disaster investigation and assessment system. It will conduct a national survey and investigation of natural disaster risks and disaster reduction capabilities at the county level so that the nation can establish comprehensive databases to improve its dynamic data updating capabilities. It will establish a national and regional comprehensive disaster risk assessment indicator regime and assessment system and study methodologies of comprehensive natural disaster risk assessment and the critical conditions that trigger disasters. It will also conduct comprehensive risk assessment trials and demonstration work. Strengthening Defensive Capacity of Natural Disaster Prevention and Reduction Projects China will strengthen the construction of key disaster prevention and reduction projects in flood control and drought relief, earthquake prevention and resistance, cold and frost resistance, typhoon and storm surge prevention, desertification and sandstorm control, forest fire prevention, plant disease and insect pest prevention and control, and wild animal epidemic prevention and control to improve the country’s defensive capability of its major and extraordinary disaster prevention projects. It will improve the disaster defensive capabilities of buildings in urban and rural areas and push for the construction of safe school buildings and safe hospital buildings across the country. It will also strengthen the management of small and medium-size rivers, seepage prevention and reservoir reinforcement, mountain torrents and geological disasters prevention, as well as the comprehensive treatment and management of the ecological environment in regions susceptible to disasters. Strengthening Capacity for Disaster Prevention and Reduction at the Regional and Urban-Rural Grassroots Levels China will coordinate capacity building in regional disaster prevention and reduction and integrate disaster prevention and reduction into regional development planning, main function area construction, industrial structure upgrading, and ecological environment improvement. It will improve the disaster-resistance standards of urban and rural buildings and public infrastructure and strengthen disaster-resistance capabilities of urban and rural infrastructure. It will also strengthen grassroots disaster prevention and reduction capabilities in urban and rural areas and improve its urban and rural disaster prevention and reduction mechanism. It will continue to push forward the establishment of National Comprehensive Disaster Reduction Demonstration Communities. 130 Improving the Assessment of Disaster Risks to Strengthen Financial Resilience
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