China News Service, Kunming, November 6 (Luo Jie) November 6 this year is the 16th Yunnan Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction Publicity Day. On the same day, Yunnan Province's "Getting Started with the 15th Five-Year Plan" theme series press conference and a special session on earthquake prevention and disaster reduction were held in Kunming. It was clear that it would promote open cooperation and deepen regional coordination and international exchanges in earthquake prevention and disaster reduction.
Yunnan is located in the frontier zone where the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate collide and squeeze. It is one of the most active continental earthquake areas in the world, and the task of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction is arduous and complex. Recently, the "Yunnan Province's 15th Five-Year Plan for Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was issued to guide the development of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction in the next five years.
Chen Yukun, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Yunnan Provincial Seismological Bureau, introduced that the "Plan" clearly states that by 2030, important progress will be made in the modernization of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction, the work system will be more complete, the business layout will be more reasonable, the grassroots foundation will be more solid, scientific and technological support and legal guarantee will be more powerful, and the urban and rural comprehensive ability to resist earthquakes of around magnitude 6 will continue to be consolidated.
Focusing on the goals, Yunnan Province has set 9 quantitative indicators in 4 categories. For example, the number of earthquake early warning application industries must reach more than 10; the seismic fortification requirements of newly built energy, transportation, water conservancy and other major infrastructure must be 100% up to standard; the county coverage rate of earthquake disaster loss pre-assessment in key earthquake hazard areas must reach 100%; the automatic output time of earthquake intensity rapid reporting instruments should not exceed 15 minutes, and the output time of the first report of earthquake disaster loss rapid assessment should not exceed 30 minutes; the coverage rate of emergency drills in compulsory education schools must reach 100%, etc.
Based on the economic and regional characteristics of Yunnan and the distribution of earthquake disasters, the "Plan" divides the province into three regions: the border area, the central Yunnan area, and the northeastern and northwest Yunnan areas. Among them, there are many cross-border active faults distributed along the border areas. The focus is to strengthen the detection of active faults and establish a dense network of observation stations to serve development needs such as energy transmission and cross-border transportation.
Yunnan's national border is 4,060 kilometers long. Earthquakes in neighboring countries may also affect the production and life of people on the border. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan will implement a project to improve the basic capabilities of earthquake monitoring, forecasting and early warning in Dehong, Baoshan, Pu'er and other border areas, and build about 30 additional monitoring stations, so that people of all ethnic groups on the border can receive earthquake early warning information earlier and gain more time to avoid danger.
Chen Yukun said that in terms of promoting open cooperation, the Yunnan Provincial Earthquake Administration has successfully held the 21st foreign aid training project, training 449 earthquake prevention and disaster reduction management and scientific and technological talents for 65 countries around the world. In the future, we will focus on serving the construction of radiation centers in South Asia and Southeast Asia and jointly building the "Belt and Road" earthquake prevention and disaster reduction cooperation. We will continue to use the seismology and earthquake engineering training courses as a platform to promote China's earthquake prevention and disaster reduction technical standards and practical experience, export technology and talents for overseas major project construction, earthquake emergency rescue, disaster investigation and assessment, and let Yunnan's earthquake disaster prevention and disaster reduction practical experience and technical standards go abroad and radiate to surrounding areas.
In addition, Yunnan will also focus on building a strong earthquake science and technology innovation platform, strengthening basic monitoring and early warning capabilities, improving the level of earthquake disaster prevention and control, improving emergency preparedness, and strengthening early warning applications to enhance the modernization of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction.
