National Emergency Plan for Natural Disaster Relief
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 10th
National Emergency Plan for Natural Disaster Relief
1 General rules
1.1 Purpose of compilation
Establish and improve the emergency rescue system and operation mechanism to deal with sudden major natural disasters, standardize emergency rescue behavior, improve emergency rescue ability, implement emergency rescue quickly, orderly and efficiently, minimize people’s lives and property losses, and maintain social stability in disaster areas.
1.2 Compilation basis
According to the Constitution of People’s Republic of China (PRC), People’s Republic of China (PRC) Public Welfare Donation Law, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Flood Control Law, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Mitigation Law, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Meteorological Law, National Overall Emergency Plan for Public Emergencies, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Disaster Mitigation Plan (1998-2010), the "Three Definitions" provisions of relevant departments in the State Council and relevant national guidelines, policies and principles for disaster relief, this document is formulated.
1.3 Scope of application
Where floods and droughts, typhoons, hail, snow, sandstorms and other meteorological disasters, volcanoes, earthquakes, geological disasters such as mountain collapses, landslides and mudslides, marine disasters such as storm surges and tsunamis, natural disasters such as forest and grassland fires and major biological disasters, and other public emergencies in China meet the starting conditions, this plan is applicable.
1.4 working principles
(1) People-oriented, to maximize the protection of people’s lives and property safety.
(2) unified leadership of the government, hierarchical management, compartmentalization, block-based.
(3) Departments should cooperate closely, cooperate with each other, and perform their duties.
(4) Rely on the masses and give full play to the role of grassroots mass autonomous organizations and public welfare social groups.
2 start-up conditions
In any of the following circumstances, start this plan.
2.1 Within the administrative area of a province (autonomous region or municipality), natural disasters such as floods and droughts, meteorological disasters such as typhoons, hail, snow and sandstorms, geological disasters such as mountain collapses, landslides and mudslides, marine disasters such as storm surges and tsunamis, forest and grassland fires and major biological disasters occur, and one of the following situations occurs during a disaster:
More than 30 people died due to the disaster;
More than 100,000 people were resettled and resettled due to the disaster;
More than 10,000 houses collapsed due to the disaster.
2.2 A destructive earthquake of magnitude 5 or above occurred, resulting in the death of more than 20 people or the emergency relocation of more than 100,000 people or the collapse and serious damage of more than 10,000 houses.
2.3 Accidents, disasters, public health incidents, social security incidents and other public emergencies have caused a large number of casualties and require emergency relocation or life assistance. This plan will be started as appropriate.
2.4 For special circumstances such as areas with particularly weak rescue capacity, the above standards may be lowered as appropriate.
2.5 Other matters decided by the State Council.
3 organization and command system and responsibilities and tasks
The National Disaster Reduction Committee (hereinafter referred to as the "National Disaster Reduction Committee") is the national comprehensive coordination body for natural disaster relief and emergency response, and is responsible for studying and formulating the principles, policies and plans of national disaster reduction work, coordinating major disaster reduction activities, guiding local disaster reduction work, promoting international exchanges and cooperation in disaster reduction, and organizing and coordinating national disaster relief work.
The Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief are located in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The member units of the Disaster Reduction Committee shall undertake corresponding tasks according to their respective division of responsibilities.
4 emergency preparedness
4.1 Fund preparation
The Ministry of Civil Affairs organizes and coordinates the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other departments to arrange the central disaster relief fund budget according to the provisions of the national development plan and the Budget Law of the People’s Republic of China, and urges local governments to increase investment in disaster relief funds according to the principle of graded responsibility for disaster relief work, graded burden of disaster relief funds and locality-oriented.
4.1.1 According to the principle of graded responsibility for disaster relief work and graded burden of disaster relief funds, central and local governments at all levels should arrange disaster relief fund budgets.
4.1.2 According to the actual expenditure of the previous year, the central finance arranges the extra-large natural disaster relief subsidy funds to help solve the basic living difficulties of people in severely affected areas.
4.1.3 The central and local governments should gradually raise the subsidy standards for disaster relief funds according to factors such as financial growth, price changes and the actual living conditions of residents, and establish a natural growth mechanism for disaster relief funds.
4.1.4 When the funds in the disaster relief budget are insufficient, the reserve funds arranged by the central and local governments should be mainly used for the life assistance of the victims.
4.2 Material preparation
Integrate the planning of existing disaster relief materials and warehouses in various departments, and manage the disaster relief materials and warehouses in a hierarchical and classified manner.
4.2.1 According to the planning of disaster relief materials reserve, on the basis of perfecting ten central disaster relief materials reserves in Tianjin, Shenyang, Harbin, Hefei, Wuhan, Changsha, Zhengzhou, Nanning, Chengdu and Xi ‘an, the central disaster relief materials reserve will be further established and improved according to the needs. All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, disaster-prone areas and counties have established and improved material reserves and points. Reserves at all levels should reserve necessary relief materials.
4.2.2 Purchase relief tents, clothes and quilts, water purification equipment (medicines) and other relief materials at the beginning of each year.
4.2.3 Establish a list of manufacturers of relief materials, and sign an emergency purchase and sale agreement for relief materials when necessary.
4.2.4 When the disaster happens, the disaster relief reserve materials of neighboring provinces can be called.
4.2.5 Establish and improve the emergency allocation and transportation system of relief materials.
4.2.6 Establish and improve the emergency procurement and allocation system for relief materials.
4.3 Communication and information preparation
Communication operation departments should ensure the smooth flow of disaster information according to law. The natural disaster relief information network should be based on the public communication network, and a special communication network for disaster information should be set up reasonably to ensure the smooth flow of information.
4.3.1 Strengthen the construction of disaster information management system at the central level, guide local governments to build and manage disaster relief communication networks covering provincial, prefectural and county levels, and ensure that central and local governments at all levels have timely and accurate information on major natural disasters.
4.3.2 Based on the National Disaster Reduction Center, establish an inter-departmental disaster information sharing platform, provide information exchange services, and improve the information sharing mechanism.
4.3.3 Give full play to the role of small satellite constellations, meteorological satellites, ocean satellites, resource satellites and other earth monitoring systems for environmental and disaster monitoring and forecasting, and establish disaster monitoring, early warning, assessment and disaster emergency decision-making system based on remote sensing and geographic information system technology.
4.4 Preparation of disaster relief equipment
4.4.1 All relevant departments of the central government should be equipped with necessary equipment and equipment for disaster relief management.
4.4.2 The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the provincial civil affairs departments and the civil affairs bureaus of cities and counties with frequent disasters should be equipped with necessary equipment and equipment for disaster relief.
4.5 Preparation of human resources
4.5.1 Improve the construction of civil disaster management personnel and improve their ability to cope with natural disasters.
4.5.2 Establish and improve the team of experts. Organize experts in civil affairs, health, water conservancy, meteorology, earthquake, ocean, land and resources, etc., focusing on disaster consultation, on-site assessment in disaster areas and business consulting on disaster management.
4.5.3 Establish and improve the linkage mechanism with military, public security, armed police, fire fighting, health and other professional rescue teams.
4.5.4 Cultivate and develop non-governmental organizations and volunteers, and give full play to their roles.
4.6 Social mobilization preparation
4.6.1 Establish and improve the mobilization mechanism, operation mechanism, supervision and management mechanism of social donation, and standardize the social donation of sudden natural disasters.
4.6.2 Improve the emergency plan for disaster relief donations, and standardize the organization and launch of disaster relief donations, the receipt and distribution of funds and materials, and the publicity and commendation of the society.
4.6.3 On the basis of 21,000 social donation receiving stations and points, we will continue to establish social donation receiving stations and points in large and medium-sized cities and small cities with conditions, and improve the regular social donation receiving network.
4.6.4 Improve the social donation recognition system to create a good social atmosphere for social donation activities.
4.6.5 Improve the counterpart support mechanism for 8 provinces (cities) including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong and Guangdong and 4 cities including Shenzhen, Qingdao, Dalian and Ningbo to 10 provinces (regions) including Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang.
4.7 Publicity, training and drills
4.7.1 Carry out community disaster reduction activities, use various media to publicize disaster knowledge, publicize disaster emergency laws and regulations and common sense of prevention, hedging, disaster avoidance, self-help, mutual rescue and insurance, and enhance people’s awareness of disaster prevention and reduction.
4.7.2 Organize training for provincial disaster management personnel at least twice a year. Organize at least one centralized training for disaster management personnel at the prefecture level every two years. Provincial or prefecture-level civil affairs departments organize business training for county-level and township civil affairs assistants at least once a year. Training for government leaders in charge, various professional emergency rescue teams, non-governmental organizations and volunteer organizations is carried out irregularly.
4.7.3 Organize 1-2 drills every year in disaster-prone areas according to the characteristics of disasters to test and improve emergency preparedness, command and response capabilities.
5 Early warning and information management
5.1 Disaster early warning and forecasting
5.1.1 According to the disaster early warning and forecasting information provided by the relevant departments, combined with the database of natural conditions, population and socio-economic background in the early warning area, make an analysis and evaluation, and make disaster early warning for the relevant areas and population that may be threatened by natural disasters in time.
5.1.2 According to the disaster warning, natural disasters may cause serious casualties and property losses, and a large number of people need emergency relocation or life assistance. The state and relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) should make emergency preparations or take emergency measures.
5.2 Disaster information sharing
The Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief timely summarize all kinds of disaster early warning and forecasting information, and inform the member units and relevant places of the information.
5.3 Disaster information management
5.3.1 Contents of disaster information report: including the time, place and background of the disaster, losses caused by the disaster (including personnel affected, number of casualties, crops affected, houses collapsed and damaged, and direct economic losses caused), disaster relief measures taken and the needs of the disaster area.
5.3.2 Reporting Time of Disaster Information
(1) Preliminary report of the disaster. The civil affairs departments at the county level should know the disaster situation at the first time and report the preliminary situation to the civil affairs departments at the prefecture (city) level in a timely manner, no later than 2 hours after the disaster. Major disasters that cause death (including missing) of more than 10 people or other serious losses shall be reported to the provincial civil affairs department and the Ministry of Civil Affairs at the same time. The civil affairs departments at the prefecture (city) level shall, after receiving the county-level report, complete the work of reviewing and summarizing the disaster data within 2 hours and report to the provincial civil affairs departments. After receiving the report at the prefecture (city) level, the provincial civil affairs department shall complete the work of reviewing and summarizing the disaster data within 2 hours and report to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The Ministry of Civil Affairs shall report to the State Council within 2 hours after receiving the report of serious and extraordinarily serious disasters.
(2) The disaster continues to be reported. Before the major natural disasters are stabilized, the civil affairs departments at the provincial, prefecture (city) and county levels shall implement the 24-hour zero reporting system. County-level civil affairs departments will report the disaster up to 24: 00 the day before 9: 00 every day to local (city) civil affairs departments, which will report to provincial civil affairs departments before 10: 00 every day, and provincial civil affairs departments will report to the Ministry of Civil Affairs before 12: 00 every day. Extraordinary disasters should be reported at any time as needed.
(3) Disaster report. The civil affairs department at the county level shall, after the disaster situation is stable, verify the disaster situation within 2 working days and report to the civil affairs department at the prefecture (city) level. The civil affairs departments at the prefecture (city) level shall, after receiving the county-level report, review and summarize the disaster data within 3 working days, and report the summary data of the whole prefecture (city) (including the disaster data of counties) to the provincial civil affairs departments. After receiving the report at the prefecture (city) level, the provincial civil affairs department shall review and summarize the disaster data within 5 working days, and report the summary data of the whole province (including the data of cities and counties) to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
5.3.3 Verification of disaster situation
(1) The department will consult and approve. Civil affairs departments at all levels coordinate agriculture, water conservancy, land and resources, earthquake, meteorology, statistics and other departments to conduct comprehensive analysis and consultation, and verify the disaster situation.
(2) Civil affairs, earthquake and other relevant departments organize expert evaluation teams to conduct expert evaluation on the disaster situation through comprehensive investigation, sampling investigation, typical investigation and special investigation to verify the disaster situation.
6 emergency response
In accordance with the principle of "combining all sectors and giving priority to all sectors", local governments are given priority to disaster relief. After the disaster, the people’s governments at the township, county, prefecture and provincial levels and relevant departments should, according to the disaster situation, start the emergency plans of relevant levels and departments, do a good job in emergency resettlement and living arrangements for victims, do a good job in disaster relief, do a good job in disaster monitoring, disaster investigation, evaluation and reporting, and minimize the loss of people’s lives and property. According to the degree of harm of sudden natural disasters and other factors, the state sets four response levels.
6.1 Class I response
6.1.1 Disaster losses
(1) Within the administrative area of a province (autonomous region or municipality), particularly serious natural disasters such as floods and droughts, typhoons, hail, snow, sandstorms, mountain collapses, landslides, mudslides, storm surges, tsunamis, forest and grassland fires and biological disasters occur.
(2) Accidents, disasters, public health incidents, social security incidents and other public emergencies have caused a large number of casualties and require emergency relocation or life assistance. This plan will be started as appropriate.
(3) For special circumstances such as areas with particularly weak rescue capacity, the starting standard may be lowered as appropriate.
(4) Other matters decided by the State Council.
6.1.2 Startup procedure
After receiving the disaster report, the Disaster Reduction Committee immediately put forward a proposal to the State Council to start the first-level response, and the State Council decided to enter the first-level response.
6.1.3 Emergency response
The director of the Disaster Reduction Committee shall lead and organize disaster relief work in a unified way.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs shall report to the State Council and the director of the Disaster Reduction Committee within 2 hours after receiving the disaster information, and then report the relevant information in a timely manner. Within 24 hours after the disaster, the Ministry of Finance shall allocate the central emergency funds for disaster relief, and coordinate the railway, transportation, civil aviation and other departments to dispatch emergency relief materials; Organize national disaster relief donation activities, and uniformly receive, manage and distribute international disaster relief donations; Coordinate and implement the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on disaster relief.
6.1.4 Termination of response
After the disaster situation and disaster relief work are stable, the director of the Disaster Reduction Committee decides to terminate the first-level response.
6. 2 Level Ⅱ response
6.2.1 Disaster losses
(1) within the administrative area of a province (autonomous region or municipality), major natural disasters such as floods and droughts, typhoons, hail, snow, sandstorms, mountain collapses, landslides, mudslides, storm surges, tsunamis, forest and grassland fires and biological disasters occur.
(2) Accidents, disasters, public health incidents, social security incidents and other public emergencies have caused a large number of casualties and require emergency relocation or life assistance. This plan will be started as appropriate.
(3) For special circumstances such as areas with particularly weak rescue capacity, the starting standard may be lowered as appropriate.
(4) Other matters decided by the State Council.
6.2.2 Startup procedure
The Secretary-General of the Disaster Reduction Committee (Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs) put forward a proposal to the Deputy Director of the Disaster Reduction Committee (Minister of Civil Affairs) at the first time after receiving the disaster report, and the Deputy Director of the Disaster Reduction Committee decided to enter the Level II response.
6.2.3 Response measures
The deputy director of the Disaster Reduction Committee shall organize and coordinate the disaster relief work.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs set up emergency headquarters for disaster relief, and implemented joint office, and formed disaster relief working groups such as emergency rescue (comprehensive) group, disaster information group, disaster relief donation group, publicity report group and logistics support group to organize and carry out disaster relief work in a unified way.
Within 24 hours after the disaster occurred, a joint working group on disaster relief was dispatched to the disaster area to express condolences to the victims, verify the disaster situation, understand the relief work, understand the relief capacity of the disaster-stricken government and the needs of the disaster-stricken areas, guide local governments to carry out disaster relief work, and urgently allocate relief funds and materials.
Timely grasp the disaster situation and compile the dynamic information of disaster relief work, and publish it on the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Announce the acceptance of disaster relief donations to the society, and organize cross-provincial (autonomous regions and municipalities) or national disaster relief donation activities.
With the approval of the State Council, an appeal for disaster relief assistance was issued to the international community.
Announce the recipient units and account numbers, set up a hotline for disaster relief donations, and take the initiative to accept disaster relief donations from all walks of life; Announce the disaster situation and the needs of the disaster area to the public every day; Timely allocation of donations, to adjust the national disaster relief donations; Regularly announce the receipt and use of disaster relief donations to the public.
6.2.4 Termination of response
After the disaster situation and relief work are stable, the deputy director of the Disaster Reduction Committee decides to terminate the level II response.
6.3 Class III response
6.3.1 Disaster losses
(1) Within the administrative area of a province (autonomous region or municipality), major natural disasters such as floods and droughts, typhoons, hail, snow, sandstorms, mountain collapses, landslides, mudslides, storm surges, tsunamis, forest and grassland fires and biological disasters occur.
(2) Accidents, disasters, public health incidents, social security incidents and other public emergencies have caused a large number of casualties and require emergency relocation or life assistance. This plan will be started as appropriate.
(3) For special circumstances such as "old, little, border and poor" areas with particularly weak rescue ability, the starting standard may be lowered as appropriate.
(4) Other matters decided by the State Council.
6.3.2 Startup procedure
After receiving the disaster report, the office of the Disaster Reduction Committee put forward a proposal to the Secretary-General of the Disaster Reduction Committee (Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs) to start the level III response, and the Secretary-General of the Disaster Reduction Committee decided to enter the level III response.
6.3.3 Response measures
The Secretary General of the Disaster Reduction Committee shall organize and coordinate the disaster relief work.
The Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief timely contact with relevant member units to communicate disaster information; Organize meetings and chambers of commerce, analyze the situation in disaster areas, and study and implement disaster relief support measures for disaster areas; Organize relevant departments to listen to the reports of relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities); Coordinate relevant departments to send a joint working group to the disaster area.
Within 24 hours after the disaster, the working group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be dispatched to the disaster area to express condolences to the victims, verify the disaster situation, understand the relief work, understand the relief capacity of the disaster-stricken government and the needs of the disaster-stricken areas, and guide the local authorities to carry out relief work.
When the disaster losses are large, within 48 hours after the disaster occurs, coordinate the relevant departments to form a national comprehensive coordination working group for disaster relief to go to the disaster area and timely allocate relief funds and materials.
Grasp the dynamic information of disaster situation and disaster relief work, and publish it on the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
6.3.4 Termination of response
After the disaster situation and relief work are stable, the Secretary-General of the Disaster Reduction Committee decides to terminate the Level III response and report to the Deputy Director of the Disaster Reduction Committee.
6.4 Class IV response
6.4.1 Disaster losses
(1) Within the administrative area of a province (autonomous region or municipality), there are general natural disasters such as floods and droughts, typhoons, hail, snow, sandstorms, mountain collapses, landslides, mudslides, storm surges, tsunamis, forest and grassland fires and biological disasters.
(2) Accidents, disasters, public health incidents, social security incidents and other public emergencies have caused a large number of casualties and require emergency relocation or life assistance. This plan will be started as appropriate.
(3) For special circumstances such as "old, little, border and poor" areas with particularly weak rescue ability, the starting standard may be lowered as appropriate.
(4) Other matters decided by the State Council.
6.4.2 Startup procedure
The office of the Disaster Reduction Committee decided to enter the level IV response as soon as it received the disaster report.
6.4.3 Response measures
The director of the Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief shall organize and coordinate the disaster relief work. The Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief timely contact with relevant member units to communicate disaster information; To consult relevant departments to implement disaster relief support for disaster areas; Send a working group to the disaster area as appropriate.
Within 24 hours after the disaster, send a working group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the disaster area to express condolences to the victims, verify the disaster situation, understand the relief work, understand the relief capacity of the disaster-stricken government and the needs of the disaster-stricken areas, guide local relief work, and allocate relief funds and materials.
Grasp the dynamic information of the disaster situation and publish it on the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
6.4.4 Termination of response
After the disaster situation and relief work are stable, the director of the Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief decides to terminate the level IV response and report it to the Secretary General of the Disaster Reduction Committee.
6.5 information release
6.5.1 Information release shall adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts, being timely and accurate. It is necessary to release brief information to the society at the first time, and do a good job in subsequent information release according to the development of the disaster.
6.5.2 The contents of information release mainly include: the basic situation of disaster, the dynamics and effects of disaster relief, the next arrangement and the problems to be explained.
7 Post-disaster relief and recovery and reconstruction
7.1 post-disaster relief
7.1.1 County-level civil affairs departments investigate the living difficulties of victims in winter (spring famine) every year, and establish a ledger of the population in need of government relief.
7.1.2 The Ministry of Civil Affairs, in conjunction with the provincial civil affairs departments, organized relevant experts to go to the disaster-stricken areas to assess the living difficulties of the victims and verify the situation.
7.1.3 Formulate the winter (spring shortage) relief work plan.
7.1.4 According to the request of the people’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government for funds from the State Council, combined with the situation of disaster assessment, the Ministry of Finance will allocate extra-large natural disaster relief subsidies to help solve the basic living difficulties of victims in winter and spring, such as eating and dressing.
7.1.5 The management system of Disaster Relief Card shall be fully implemented for disaster relief. For the victims who need government relief, the civil affairs departments at the county level will issue the "Disaster Relief Card" uniformly, and the victims will receive relief food and relief funds with the card.
7.1.6 Inform the society about the allocation progress of disaster relief funds in various places, and ensure that winter relief funds are distributed to households before the Spring Festival.
7.1.7 For the people who are short of food and have the ability to repay but have no money to buy food for the time being, open a warehouse to borrow food.
7.1.8 Solve the problem of winter clothes and quilts for victims through social donation, counterpart support and emergency procurement.
7.1.9 The development and reform, finance, agriculture and other departments shall implement the work-for-relief policy, and the disaster relief, and the grain department shall ensure the food supply.
7.2 Restoration and reconstruction
Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction work adheres to the disaster relief policy of "relying on the masses, relying on the collective, self-help in production, mutual assistance and mutual aid, supplemented by the necessary relief and support of the state". The county (city, district) shall be responsible for organizing the implementation of the reconstruction of the houses of the victims, taking the combination of self-construction, aid construction and assistance construction, with the self-construction of the affected households as the mainstay. Housing funds should be solved through government relief, social mutual assistance, neighborhood help workers to help materials, work as relief, self-lending, preferential policies and other ways. Housing planning and design should be based on local conditions, rational layout, scientific planning and full consideration of disaster factors.
7.2.1 Organize to verify the disaster situation. After the disaster is stable, the county-level civil affairs department immediately organizes the disaster to be approved and establishes a ledger of houses collapsed due to the disaster. The provincial civil affairs department shall report the disaster losses of collapsed houses and other disasters in the province to the Ministry of Civil Affairs within 10 days after the disaster is stabilized.
7.2.2 Carry out disaster assessment. After a major disaster, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, together with the provincial civil affairs departments, organized relevant experts to go to the disaster area to carry out disaster assessment and comprehensively verify the disaster situation.
7.2.3 Formulate the recovery and reconstruction work plan. According to the national disaster situation and local conditions, work plans for restoration and reconstruction, such as guidelines, objectives, policies, reconstruction progress, financial support, preferential policies and inspection and implementation, are formulated.
7.2.4 According to the request of the people’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government for funds from the State Council, combined with the situation of disaster assessment, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance allocate relief subsidies for extraordinarily serious natural disasters to be used exclusively for the restoration and reconstruction of the houses of victims in various places.
7.2.5 Regularly inform the society about the progress of allocating disaster relief funds and the progress of recovery and reconstruction.
7.2.6 Send an inspection team to the disaster area to inspect and supervise the restoration and reconstruction work.
7.2.7 Negotiate with relevant departments to formulate preferential policies, simplify procedures, reduce taxes and fees, and stabilize prices.
7.2.8 The health department shall do a good job in post-disaster disease prevention and epidemic monitoring. Organize medical and health personnel to go deep into the disaster area, provide medical and health services, publicize health and disease prevention knowledge, guide the masses to do a good job in environmental sanitation, and implement supervision over drinking water and food hygiene to achieve no major epidemic after the disaster.
7.2.9 The departments of development and reform, education, finance, construction, transportation, water conservancy, agriculture, health, radio and television, as well as enterprises and financial institutions such as electric power and communication, shall make arrangements for disaster relief funds (materials), and organize the restoration and reconstruction of public welfare facilities such as schools and hospitals in disaster areas and water conservancy, electric power, transportation, communication, water supply and drainage, radio and television facilities.
8 supplementary provisions
8.1 Interpretation of Terminology
Natural disasters: refer to natural phenomena that endanger human survival or damage human living environment, including floods and droughts, meteorological disasters such as typhoons, hail, snow and sandstorms, volcanic and earthquake disasters, geological disasters such as mountain collapses, landslides and mudslides, marine disasters such as storm surges and tsunamis, and natural disasters such as forest and grassland fires and major biological disasters.
Disaster situation: refers to the losses caused by natural disasters, including casualties and property losses.
Disaster pre-warning: It refers to the analysis, evaluation and early warning of the loss of areas and population that may be affected by disasters according to the disaster pre-warning and forecast information of meteorological, hydrological, marine, earthquake and land departments, combined with the database of population, nature and socio-economic background.
Small Satellite Constellation for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting: In order to meet the needs of China’s environment and disaster monitoring, in February 2003, the State Council officially approved the project of "Small Satellite Constellation for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting". According to the national plan, the small satellite constellation system is planned to adopt a step-by-step implementation strategy: during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the "2+1" scheme is adopted, that is, two optical small satellites and one synthetic aperture radar small satellite are launched to initially realize the ability to monitor disasters and the environment; During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, the "4+4" plan was implemented, that is, a constellation consisting of four optical satellites and four synthetic aperture radar satellites was launched to realize the dynamic monitoring of disasters and environment in China and neighboring countries and regions.
In the expression of relevant quantities in this plan, "above" includes the number, and "below" does not include the number.
8.2 International communication and cooperation
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the national foreign affairs discipline, actively carry out international natural disaster relief exchanges, learn from the experience of natural disaster relief in developed countries, and further improve the prevention and disposal of natural disaster emergencies in China.
8.3 rewards and responsibilities
Advanced collectives and individuals who have made outstanding contributions in natural disaster relief work shall be jointly commended by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Civil Affairs; To ratify the martyrs in accordance with the relevant provisions for those who died heroically in natural disaster relief work; Those who neglect their duties in natural disaster relief work and cause losses shall be investigated for their responsibilities in accordance with relevant state laws and regulations, and those who constitute a crime shall be investigated for their criminal responsibilities according to law.
8.4 Plan Management and Update
This plan is managed by the Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief. After the implementation of the plan, the Office of the Disaster Reduction Committee and the National Comprehensive Coordination Office for Disaster Relief shall timely convene relevant departments and experts to make an assessment, and make corresponding changes according to the situation and report to the State Council. All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government shall formulate emergency plans for natural disaster relief in their own provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) according to this plan.
8.5 Effective time of the plan
This plan shall take effect as of the date of issuance.