What organization does the Meteorological Bureau belong to?

The China Meteorological Administration is an institution directly under the State Council.

The predecessor of the Meteorological Bureau was the Meteorological Bureau of the Central Military Commission, which was established in December 1949. In 1994, after it was changed from an agency directly under the State Council to an institution directly under the State Council, it was authorized by the State Council to assume the government administrative functions of national meteorological work and be responsible for the organization and management of national meteorological work.

The national meteorological departments implement unified leadership, hierarchical management, dual leadership of the meteorological departments and local people's governments, and a management system dominated by the leadership of the meteorological departments. China's meteorological undertaking is a scientific and technological, basic social welfare undertaking. It adheres to the development concept of "public meteorology, safety meteorology, and resource meteorology" and adheres to the service tenet of "people-oriented, meticulous and omnipresent".

The responsibilities are to organize the formulation and implementation of meteorological disaster prevention plans, participate in the government’s decision-making on meteorological disaster prevention and reduction, organize and guide meteorological disaster prevention and reduction work; organize the preparation of national meteorological disaster emergency plans, and organize meteorological disaster prevention and emergency management Work; organize the construction of meteorological disaster monitoring, early warning and information release system, be responsible for meteorological disaster monitoring, early warning and information release; be responsible for the release of early warning information for major national public emergencies; be responsible for meteorological support for major events and public emergencies work; organize inter-regional and inter-department meteorological joint prevention and major meteorological support for major disastrous weather; organize meteorological disaster risk census, risk zoning and risk assessment; organize national key projects, major regional economic development projects, urban and rural areas Construction of meteorological services; management of weather modification work.