How to improve urban disaster prevention and reduction capabilities

We should start from the source and pay attention to climate feasibility demonstration and disaster risk assessment. When organizing the revision of urban planning and design standards and carrying out construction projects closely related to climate conditions, climate feasibility demonstrations should be conducted to fully consider the climate characteristics and climate carrying capacity of various regions to reduce urban climate vulnerability. Based on the disaster risk assessment results, the fortification standards of urban and rural buildings and public facilities should be improved to strengthen the disaster resistance of urban and rural transportation, communications, electricity, water supply and drainage pipe networks and other infrastructure. Among this, the meteorological department should use its own advantages to carry out urban meteorological disaster risk surveys focusing on communities and high-impact areas, improve the index system of critical meteorological conditions causing disasters, establish and update urban meteorological disaster risk databases in real time; strengthen meteorological disaster Assessment of disaster risks caused by urban flooding, traffic safety, air pollution, etc. that seriously affect economic and social security and development; establishment and improvement of disaster risk assessments that are as detailed as possible to hidden disaster risk points.

Urban emergency response and disaster relief capabilities should be enhanced. Each town should establish an emergency plan. Once a disaster is about to occur or has already occurred, after initiating the emergency response, all relevant units will perform their duties in accordance with the requirements of the plan to minimize or avoid disaster losses; at the same time, after the disaster occurs, timely investigations should be carried out disaster, take remedial measures. The construction of emergency response teams should be strengthened to ensure that early warning information is transmitted in a timely manner and disaster information is collected in a timely manner. The sharing of early warning information should be strengthened to effectively expand the channels for the public to obtain disaster prevention and reduction information. Meteorological departments should play the role of "starting gun" and "information tree", strengthen contact with water conservancy, land, urban operation and security and other departments, establish a multi-department early warning linkage mechanism for meteorological disasters; promote the urban meteorological disaster insurance system; explore the suspension of classes in major meteorological disasters, Work stoppage and other systems.

All people should participate to enhance disaster awareness and improve self-rescue and mutual-rescue capabilities. The painful lessons have repeatedly reminded us that accumulating necessary scientific knowledge and self-rescue knowledge plays a decisive role in reducing losses caused by disasters. People's weak awareness of disaster prevention and reduction, insufficient knowledge reserves, and low self-rescue and mutual rescue capabilities have become "hard tools" to withstand disasters. hurt". This requires relevant departments to popularize disaster prevention and disaster reduction knowledge and basic self-rescue and mutual rescue skills to the public, especially primary and secondary school students, migrant workers, industrial and mining enterprise employees, etc., and further enhance the awareness of disaster prevention and reduction in the whole society; make full use of radio, television, newspapers and periodicals , the Internet, and emerging media such as Weibo and WeChat to disseminate knowledge on disaster prevention and reduction; organize people to conduct disaster drills according to local conditions, simulate disaster scenes, and accumulate practical experience. Meteorological departments at all levels should establish a normalized, socialized and professional meteorological science popularization work system, continue to promote the popularization of meteorological disaster prevention and reduction science into communities, schools, enterprises, etc., encourage social enterprises, organizations and volunteers to participate, and bring The voice of meteorological disaster prevention and reduction spread to every corner of the city.