How to Improve Urban Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Ability

1. To effectively improve the ability of disaster prevention and reduction in cities and towns, we should start from the source and attach importance 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 climatic conditions, we should conduct climate feasibility demonstration, give full consideration to local climate characteristics and climate carrying capacity, and reduce urban climate vulnerability. According to the results of disaster risk assessment, improve the fortification standards of urban and rural buildings and public facilities, and enhance the disaster resistance of urban and rural transportation, communication, electric power, water supply and drainage networks and other infrastructure. Among them, the meteorological department should make use of its own advantages, focus on communities and high-impact areas, carry out urban meteorological disaster risk investigation, improve the index system of critical meteorological conditions causing disasters, and establish and update the urban meteorological disaster risk database in real time; Strengthen the risk assessment of disasters such as urban waterlogging, traffic safety and air pollution caused by meteorological disasters, which seriously affect economic and social security and development; Establish and improve the risk assessment of disaster classification, and refine it to the hidden danger points of disaster risk.

2. To effectively improve the city's disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, it is necessary to enhance the city's emergency disaster relief capabilities. The town should establish an emergency plan. Once a disaster is about to happen or has already happened, all relevant units should perform their duties according to the requirements of the plan after the emergency response is started, so as to minimize or avoid disaster losses. At the same time, after the disaster, it is necessary to investigate the disaster situation in time and take remedial measures. Strengthen the construction of emergency teams to ensure timely delivery of early warning information and timely feedback of disaster information. Strengthen the sharing of early warning information and effectively broaden people's access to disaster prevention and mitigation information. Meteorological departments should play the role of "starting gun" and "information tree", strengthen contact with water conservancy, land and urban operation support departments, and establish a multi-sectoral early warning linkage mechanism for meteorological disasters; Promote the urban meteorological disaster insurance system; Explore the system of suspension of classes for major meteorological disasters.

3. Effectively improve the city's ability to prevent and reduce disasters, with the participation of the whole people, enhance the awareness of disasters and enhance the ability of self-help and mutual assistance. Painful lessons remind us again and again that storing necessary scientific common sense and self-help knowledge plays an important role in reducing losses caused by disasters. People's awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation is weak, their knowledge reserves are insufficient, and their ability to save themselves and each other is low, which has become a "hard injury" to resist disasters. This requires the relevant departments to popularize the knowledge of disaster prevention and mitigation and the basic skills of self-help and mutual rescue to the public, especially primary and secondary school students, migrant workers and workers in industrial and mining enterprises, and further enhance the awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation in the whole society; Make full use of radio, television, newspapers, Internet, Weibo, WeChat and other emerging media to spread knowledge of disaster prevention and mitigation; According to local conditions, organize the masses to carry out disaster drills, simulate disaster scenarios and accumulate practical experience. Meteorological departments at all levels should establish a normalized, socialized and professional meteorological science popularization system, continue to promote the popularization of meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation into communities, schools and enterprises, encourage social enterprises, organizations and volunteers to participate, and spread the voice of meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation to every corner of the town.