Facing severe geological disasters, China is expanding risk management from individual hazard points to entire zones and deploying advanced technologies to minimize casualties and property losses, according to a new five-year plan released by the Ministry of Natural Resources.
The Implementation Plan for National Geological Disaster Prevention and Control during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30) comes as more than 270,000 geological disaster points threatened over 11 million people nationwide by the end of 2025, with climate change triggering increasingly unpredictable hazards outside traditional high-risk areas.
During the five-year period, the plan calls for the deployment of more than 4,200 engineering solutions and elimination of over 6,100 hazard sites, while relocating approximately 50,000 households from high-risk areas.
It also mandates the implementation of dual control of hazard points and risk zones across 1,206 key counties, cities or districts in 17 priority provinces, establishing management lists with defined accountability systems.
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