China News Service, October 21. The State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences with the theme of "Getting Started with the 15th Five-Year Plan" on the 21st to introduce the situation of striving to promote the modernization of the national emergency management system and capabilities during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Zhang Qin, deputy director of the China Earthquake Administration, said at the meeting that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the China Earthquake Administration will integrate various dedicated seismic station networks and integrate them into the national station network system to achieve my country's earthquake monitoring capabilities to reach level 1.0-2.5.
Zhang Qin introduced that the inclusion of "strengthening the construction of monitoring, forecasting and early warning systems for earthquakes and other disasters" into the "Outline" of the country's "15th Five-Year Plan" fully reflects the importance that the Party Central Committee and the State Council attach to earthquake prevention and disaster reduction. In the next five years, the China Earthquake Administration will strive to build an intelligent and efficient modern earthquake monitoring, forecasting and early warning system integrating "air, sky, earth and sea", focusing on promoting work in three aspects.
First, improve the three-dimensional monitoring network. First, "strong foundation" in key areas. Intensive observation networks for deformation, fluid, electromagnetic and other geophysics will be built in key areas, and deep well observation stations will be built in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and other regions to obtain scientific data with higher precision and higher spatial and temporal resolution, and improve the ability to capture earthquake precursor information. The second is to "make up for the shortcomings" in weak areas. Construct marine seismic observation stations in coastal waters, deploy seismic monitoring stations densely in the southwest, northwest and other regions, and expand the seismic monitoring capabilities and scope of the sea and western regions. Integrate various dedicated seismic station networks and integrate them into the national station network system to achieve my country's earthquake monitoring capabilities to reach level 1.0-2.5. The third is "new applications" of advanced technologies. The China Earthquake Administration will deepen the application of sensing technologies such as distributed optical fiber, quantum precision measurement, ubiquitous sensing, and space earth observation, and explore the construction of new monitoring networks. Use artificial intelligence and edge computing technology to continuously improve the digital intelligence level of monitoring systems.
Second, improve the earthquake early warning service system. The first is to optimize and improve the early warning system. Since the "China Earthquake Early Warning Network" provided services to the society, the number of users has exceeded 500 million, and it has been used in more than 10 key industries such as railways, water conservancy, and nuclear power. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we will steadily promote system iterative upgrades, optimize core algorithms, and continuously improve the timeliness, accuracy, and accessibility of earthquake early warning. The second is to expand the coverage of public services. Continue to broadcast early warning information through channels such as mobile phones, televisions, radios, public electronic screens, and rural loudspeakers, and promote the deployment of early warning terminals in campuses, hospitals, transportation hubs, large supermarkets and other crowded places to significantly expand the audience coverage of early warning information. Standardize the release of earthquake early warning information in accordance with the law and strengthen the management of third-party information dissemination. The third is to deepen industry integration and application. Promote the integration of early warning information into the automation control systems of major projects such as high-speed railways, nuclear power, and precision manufacturing, so that trains can automatically slow down and production lines can be automatically shut down immediately after an earthquake, and the disaster reduction effectiveness of earthquake early warning can be continuously brought into play.
Third, promote the intelligent transformation of earthquake forecasting. The China Earthquake Administration will focus on solving scientific problems in earthquake forecasting, deepen the application of new technologies and methods such as artificial intelligence, accelerate the transformation from empirical forecasting to physical forecasting, and optimize the long-term, medium-term, short-term and immediate forecasting business systems. Enrich earthquake prediction products for disaster prevention, avoidance, emergency response and recovery and reconstruction, and continuously improve earthquake safety assurance capabilities.
