Paper: Integrated Disaster Risk Management of China

 

 

Abstract: This paper firstly introduces the disaster (public security) status quo and situation of China briefly, and then gives a detailed explanation of the integrated disaster risk management system. China is one of the most natural disaster affected countries in the world. The disaster risk reduction work in China includes the pre-disaster decentralized management with separate fields and departments, the in-disaster integrated emergency management, and the post-disaster different-level cooperation between the central government and the local governments. So it can be regarded that the Chinese disaster risk management system depends mainly on the central management, with the mutual cooperation between the central government and the local governments. The integrated disaster risk management of China emphasizes the management mechanism of “combine the bars (the professional technology departments) and the blocks (the local governments), and mainly depend on the blocks”; the final goal of the integrated disaster reduction is to “realize the horizontal harmonization to the margin without dead angle and the vertical harmonization to the end without blank”; the Chinese disaster risk management strategy persists in the principle of “give priority to disaster prevention, and combine disaster prevention with disaster resistance and relief”. The natural disaster risk management is mainly taken charge by the civil affair departments of China and the insurance regulatory departments. As the key guaranteeing strategies for national sustainable development, the agriculture insurance and the large-scale catastrophe insurance are now under the stage of research and experiment. Some provinces of China have carried out the agriculture natural disaster insurance. 

 

http://www.oecd.org/finance/insurance/38120232.pdf