BTVNews (Huang Yong): Increase infrastructure construction and enhance public awareness of disaster reduction

w88 casino News2013Year5month7Day, Beijing Municipal People’s Congress representative,Professor Huang Yong, Director of the Economic Law Department of the w88 casinoAccepted an interview with Beijing TV Station’s “Proposal Tracking” column on issues of disaster prevention and reduction.

Beijing last year7.21Heavy rainstorms and this year4.20The Ya'an earthquake prompted Representative Huang Yong to think deeply about how a megacity like Beijing, with a population of more than 20 million people, can face major natural disasters and other emergencies. After careful research, Representative Huang Yong put forward the "Recommendations on Increasing Capital Investment in Disaster Prevention and Reduction in Beijing" at the first meeting of the 14th Beijing Municipal People's Congress at the beginning of this year. The "Recommendations" believe that the government should increase investment in infrastructure such as disaster prevention and reduction, and improve its ability to respond to emergencies.

Representative Huang Yong said, "Although the government has done a lot of work in this area, we have also seen that the emergency level that many facilities, including material reserves, can achieve may still be far behind the disasters that Beijing needs to respond to."

According to incomplete statistics, Beijing currently has only81Accommodating space265An emergency shelter for tens of thousands of people. In some places, facilities are poorly maintained, the space is occupied, and signs are dilapidated and defective. In this regard, Huang Yong suggested that research should continue to increase the scope of public emergency refuges, unify relevant standards for emergency refuge site selection, design of supporting facilities, etc., clearly stipulate the management and maintenance entities of refuge venues in laws and regulations, and pursue legal liability for damage to facilities and misappropriation of sites, so as to ensure the normal use of emergency refuge venues.

Huang Yong emphasized, “For the signs of emergency evacuation sites, it is necessary to continue to invest in some new equipment, such as wireless broadcast communication systems, mobile broadcast systems, community electronic disaster reminders and publicity facilities, etc., to improve the public’s awareness of disasters and their ability to respond.”

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