Regulations of Gansu Province on Meteorological Disaster Prevention

chapter I general provisions article 1 these regulations are formulated in accordance with the meteorological law of the people's Republic of China and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, combined with the actual situation of this province, in order to strengthen the prevention of meteorological disasters, improve the ability to prevent meteorological disasters, prevent and mitigate the losses caused by meteorological disasters, safeguard the safety of life and property of the state and people, and promote economic and social development. Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to meteorological disaster prevention activities within the administrative region of this province. Article 3 Meteorological disasters as mentioned in these Regulations refer to disasters involving public safety caused by weather and climate events such as drought, gale, sandstorm, rainstorm (snow), hail, thunder and lightning, high temperature, frost, dry and hot wind, etc.

meteorological secondary disasters refer to geological disasters, floods, plant diseases and insect pests, forest and grassland fires, environmental pollution and epidemic situations induced by meteorological factors.

meteorological disaster prevention refers to the activities of researching, monitoring, early warning, investigation and evaluation of various meteorological disasters, formulating meteorological disaster prevention plans, formulating meteorological disaster prevention plans and emergency plans for sudden meteorological disasters, and taking effective defense measures to avoid or reduce losses caused by meteorological disasters. Fourth meteorological disaster prevention work should adhere to the people-oriented, prevention-oriented, combining prevention and control, overall planning, grading responsibility principle. Article 5 The people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the leadership of meteorological disaster prevention, speed up the construction of disaster prevention and mitigation systems at all levels, incorporate meteorological disaster prevention into the national economic and social development plan, and include the required funds in the fiscal budget at the corresponding level. Sixth meteorological departments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the monitoring, forecasting, early warning, evaluation and weather modification of meteorological disasters within their respective administrative areas; Assist relevant departments in monitoring, forecasting, early warning and disaster reduction of meteorological secondary disasters.

relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level, such as development and reform, land and resources, civil affairs, water conservancy, electric power, agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, construction, transportation, education, etc., shall do a good job in meteorological disaster prevention according to their division of responsibilities. Article 7 People's governments at all levels shall establish and improve the coordination mechanism for meteorological disaster prevention, organize relevant departments to prevent meteorological disasters and meteorological secondary disasters, strengthen the propaganda of meteorological science popularization and knowledge of disaster prevention and mitigation, enhance the public's awareness of preventing meteorological disasters, and improve their ability of disaster prevention and mitigation. Chapter II Planning and Construction Article 8 The people's governments at or above the county level shall organize meteorological departments and other relevant departments to formulate meteorological disaster prevention plans within their respective administrative areas, conduct meteorological disaster surveys, formulate and improve disaster prevention and mitigation measures, and make overall plans for emergency infrastructure projects to prevent meteorological disasters according to the disaster distribution, prone areas, main disaster-causing factors and the meteorological disaster prevention plans at the next higher level. Ninth meteorological disaster prevention planning mainly includes the following contents:

(1) the guiding ideology, principles, objectives and tasks of meteorological disaster prevention;

(2) Forecast, investigation and evaluation of the present situation and development trend of meteorological disasters;

(3) key periods, key defense areas and defense standards for meteorological disaster prevention;

(4) meteorological disaster prevention mechanism and departmental responsibilities;

(5) meteorological disaster prevention system and related infrastructure construction. Article 1 The competent meteorological department at or above the county level shall, jointly with the relevant departments of the people's government at the same level, formulate a meteorological disaster prevention plan based on the meteorological disaster prevention plan, and report it to the people's government at the same level for approval before promulgation and implementation. The meteorological disaster prevention plan shall be revised in a timely manner according to the actual situation. Article 11 People's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the capacity building of meteorological disaster monitoring and early warning, increase the monitoring density, improve the monitoring level, build a three-dimensional monitoring system of meteorological disasters, establish a network system of disaster monitoring, early warning and forecasting, and improve the comprehensive monitoring capacity of meteorological disasters and their secondary disasters. Twelfth people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the statutory standards, delimit the scope of environmental protection for meteorological observation, and incorporate the scope of protection into urban planning or town planning.

no organization or individual may commit any act that endangers or may endanger the meteorological observation environment within the protection scope of the meteorological observation environment. Thirteenth people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the comprehensive monitoring, forecasting, warning, emergency response and other infrastructure construction of meteorological disasters. In cities, towns, meteorological disaster-prone areas and key meteorological disaster prevention areas, establish automatic meteorological disaster monitoring outlets and set up warning signs in meteorological disaster-prone areas; In prominent locations in cities and towns, densely populated residential areas, tourist attractions, airports, stations, highways, schools, places where key projects are located, facilities for meteorological disaster monitoring and early warning information release shall be established as needed. Fourteenth meteorological disaster monitoring and early warning facilities shall be protected according to law, and no unit or individual may occupy, damage or move them without authorization.

when meteorological disaster monitoring and early warning facilities are damaged due to force majeure, the local people's government shall take emergency measures to organize the repair. chapter iii monitoring and early warning article 15 the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the principle of rational distribution and effective utilization, organize the establishment of meteorological disaster monitoring networks in their respective administrative areas and gradually establish township automatic weather stations.

the member units of meteorological disaster monitoring network include meteorological offices and stations belonging to the competent meteorological department and meteorological observation (monitoring) stations and outposts belonging to other relevant departments and units, and their work is under the unified supervision and guidance of the competent meteorological department.