Zheng Guoguang, director of Seismological Bureau of China, was awarded the title of Deputy Director of Emergency Management Department after seven months' investigation in Tangshan, Hebei Province, which is of great significance. ?
July 28th this year is the 42nd anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake. On the afternoon of the 27th the day before yesterday, Tangshan held a popular science exhibition on earthquake prevention and disaster reduction. Zheng Guoguang, deputy director of emergency management department and director of Seismological Bureau of China, Niu Zhijun, deputy director of Seismological Bureau of China, Ding Xiufeng, mayor of Tangshan, Liang Zhenjiang, deputy mayor, and Zhang Wenming, secretary general of the municipal government attended the opening ceremony and visited the exhibition. ?
This exhibition is one of the supporting activities of the National Earthquake Science Popularization Conference. Also held in Tangshan on the same day was the final of the National Knowledge Competition on Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction, which was hosted by the Seismological Bureau of China and hosted by the Tangshan Municipal People's Government and the China Earthquake Disaster Reduction Center. ?
On the 28th, the Emergency Management Department, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the China Association for Science and Technology, the People's Government of Hebei Province and the Seismological Bureau of China jointly held the first national earthquake science popularization conference in Tangshan. ?
For Tangshan, Hebei Province, which suffered huge casualties and property economic losses 42 years ago, official activities similar to the above have been held from time to time for 40 years. What is special this year is that it is the first anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake after the establishment of the Emergency Management Department. ?
Fighting against natural disasters is the eternal theme of human survival and development. Handle the relationship between man and nature more consciously, correctly handle the relationship between disaster prevention, mitigation and relief and economic and social development, constantly sum up experience from the practice of resisting various natural disasters, implement responsibilities, improve systems, integrate resources, make overall plans, raise the awareness of disaster prevention and relief of the whole people, and comprehensively improve the country's comprehensive disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capabilities. ?
China is one of the countries with the most serious natural disasters in the world, with many kinds of disasters, wide geographical distribution, high frequency and heavy losses, which is a basic national condition. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, we have constantly explored and established the working principle of putting prevention first and combining prevention with rescue, and the country's comprehensive disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capacity has been comprehensively improved. It is necessary to sum up experience, further enhance the sense of hardship and responsibility, adhere to the principle of putting prevention first, combining prevention with relief, and unifying normal and abnormal disaster relief, and strive to realize the transformation from paying attention to post-disaster relief to pre-disaster prevention, from dealing with a single disaster to comprehensive disaster reduction, and from reducing disaster losses to reducing disaster risks, so as to comprehensively improve the comprehensive prevention ability of the whole society against natural disasters. ?
Disaster prevention and mitigation is related to the safety of people's lives and property, social harmony and stability, and it is an important aspect to measure the leadership of the ruling party, test the government's execution, judge the mobilization of the whole people and reflect the national cohesion. At present and in the future, it is necessary to strengthen organizational leadership, improve systems, improve laws and regulations, promote the construction of major disaster prevention and mitigation projects, strengthen the capacity building of disaster monitoring, early warning and risk prevention, improve the disaster resistance of urban buildings and infrastructure, improve the fortification level and disaster resistance of rural housing, increase disaster management training, establish a long-term mechanism for publicity and education on disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, and guide social forces to participate in an orderly manner. It points out the direction for dealing with the contradiction between man and nature and the relationship between disaster prevention, mitigation and relief and economic and social development.