China: National comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation twelfth five-year plan (2011–2015)
This National Comprehensive Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015), as a cross-sectoral policy document, was issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, aiming at further improving the ability of disaster prevention and reduction, and ensuring the safety of the lives and property of the people to the greatest extent. This plan proposed ten aspects of disaster management and seven key projects.
Ten aspects will be strengthened including national monitoring, warning and assessment, the national risk management, national disaster information, engineering defense ability, disaster prevention and mitigation of the regional and the urban and the rural areas, emergency response and recovery, application of science and technology, the cultural foster of disaster prevention and mitigation, the social support ability, and soft ability on disaster prevention and mitigation.
Seven projects include: the comprehensive risk survey project for natural disaster, information platform for comprehensive disaster reduction and risk management, the national disaster emergency command system, the national reserves of relief materials, satellite to environmental disaster mitigation, national simulation system of natural disaster, disaster education and model community of integrated disaster reduction. The implementation of this plan is to enhance the national comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation ability, effectively restrain the increasing trend in natural disaster risk, minimize the natural disaster losses, improve public literacy on disaster prevention and mitigation, and reduce the effect of natural disaster on the national economic and social development.