Zhejiang wenzhou, a city named after climate features。
There's a poem cloud: "good for wenzhou, don't be an asshole. The rain is better than the weather, it's warm, it's cold, it's dark.”
In 2023, the city of wenzhou was approved as a pilot city for the national meteorological disaster risk assessment early warning. This is both an institutional activation driven by pilot opportunities and a governance revolution from “data to action”。
On the south-east coast of typhoon and heavy storm, the weather service in wenzhou, with a high degree of strategic commitment and institutional innovation, has taken a firm and comprehensive approach to “innovation-driven one-person” “brain-one-person” “building one-stop-one-stop” “mitigation services-one-stop” “story-one-stop-one-stop” “technology services-one-stop” “agriculture services-one-size-one” actions, promoting a systematic shift from “risk-awareness” to “risk management” in meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation, and promoting the deep integration of “meteorological+” into the whole process of urban operations and industrial development, enabling economic and social development to be of high quality。
Wenzhou city view photography: with a stamp
We're going to build the smart line of mitigation and activate the grass-roots disaster response
At 6 a. M. On 9 july 2025, heavy rains struck the windows of the headquarters for drought control in xinnan county, wenzhou city, during the hurricane's “danas” impact. The head of the district meteorological department, lee huaikawa, was closely following the storm response early warning system, and a red high-profile marking message was drawn to his attention — the “storm-related threshold” of some administrative villages, such as ma station town, was triggered. At 0610 hours an early warning call was heard from the secretary of the party, who went straight to ma's station. In the immediate aftermath, village cadres made urgent patrols to confirm that 10 families had completed the transfer of 16 villagers. Within a short period of time, the hill landslide destroyed houses, and a possible death or injury was jeopardized by heavy rains. Over the past year, 18 such geological disasters, based on refined models, have been successfully avoided in wenzhou。
Weave a 3d sensory network
In the past, “typhoon is coming” and “where it is at risk” were different. Traditional warnings tend to cover a district, a region, but where the rains are the hardest, where the mountains are the easiest, where the villages must be moved immediately, often as a “wilder”。
Typhoon bebija was close, and zhejiang win county withdrew more than 800 tourists from the south china sea through the “135” early warning “call-back” mechanism. Photo: chen liang
“before the pilot is approved, we have put early warning mechanisms to good use.” liu jianyong, director general of the weather department of wenzhou, said, “but to be precise, systems must be linked, mechanisms must be truly effective and accessible”
As a first step, weave weather sharing “data networks” to enhance ground-based high-frequency factor monitoring. The municipal meteorological service has built 1,032 automatic weather stations, shared 1,478 rainfall stations with the water sector and built 30 meteorological stations with the emergency management department; completed eight s-band and x-band weather radars, planned a new generation of rain radars with the water sector and shared them over a multi-net basis. The introduction of the wind cloud earth satellite platform, based on the integrated platform of the city of zhejiang province, the weather radar fine group network system and the weinzhou radar data application platform, supports short-term proximity forecasting and achieves early disaster weather recognition. In cooperation with scientific institutions such as the shanghai typhoon institute of the china meteorological administration, nanjing university and the institute of meteorological science of zhejiang province, a typhoon laboratory and a strong tunnel laboratory have been set up. The scientific and technological results have resulted in six patents and six software copyrights。
At the top of mount luo in the city of wenzhou, doppler radar is able to capture the changes and protect the city. Photography: mob section
More crucial is data integration and intelligence analysis. In angnan, the meteorological sector has been deeply integrating historical disaster data and geological survey results for more than 30 years, using models to construct a “risk-monitoring-warning” link threshold for villages throughout the county. This system of “throwing threshold” constitutes the “3060” mechanism for rural storm response — 30 minutes for decision-making, 60 minutes for short. Temporary effects, based on multi-source integration live analysis of products and short-range precipitation forecasting products integrated with radar and models, achieve space-to-village, hour-to-hour target warning。
How can command hubs be linked to operational end-of-action efficiency when they are sensitive? The answer in weinzhou is to create a chain of command between the “preventive brain” — the “1833”. “1” is the joint command of one of the municipalities and communes; “8” is the eight risk lists that focus on geological disasters, flash floods, urban flooding, etc.; “3” is the closure of the instructions using risk alerts, warning responses, control instructions “three sheets”; and “3” is the use of a message, a telephone, a video to ensure that the instructions reach key people。
The power of the system stands out in the field. During typhoon danas, there was an urgent need to transfer a critical patient from deutsche island, but there was a storm at sea. Based on a joint command mechanism, the atoll meteorological service has refined a “gold window period” of approximately one hour in complex weather, when the first aid vessel seized the opportunity and succeeded in transferring the patient。
Wake up and respond
Early warning, how to ensure that those who listen hear and move move move
With the assistance of the meteorological services, the city of wenchuan command for drought control has explored a set of “two-to-one” early warning rules for landing: alert information reaches those responsible at the grass-roots level and individuals in their families, and is readily understandable. This is accompanied by a rigid “135” duty alert “call-back” mechanism, which is a video link within one minute of the issuance of the directive, a notification within three minutes to the duty manager and a response within five minutes. Since 2023, over 3. 29 million early warning messages have been sent to families and individuals through the “two straights and one whites” mechanism in winzhou, and over 171,000 calls have been made to “awaken” those responsible. In the last decade, the “winzhou typhoon network” serving the local population has been visited 400 million times。
In the village of zhu yu, the head of the bridge in yongja county, the village official sun guohua was fresh in his late evening calls. “worried orange alerts are sent directly to mobile phones, informing us of specific risk points and transfer requirements. It is this `progressive' warning and precision `call-back' that gives us enough time to finally avoid the mountains for 5 families of 12 people.”
The “flow line” of early warning is also continually being optimized, and the city government of weinzhou has set up an incremental five-part mechanism for “impact alerts-alert alerts-precision alerts-classifications-responsible alerts”. Meteorological early warning is no longer just information, but rather a call for action。
To explore the resilience of the future and build the foundations of national defense
Since the pilot, the results have been reduced to 64 minutes in advance, on average. Disaster prevention and mitigation is shifting from relying on individual experience to relying on sophisticated data and synergy mechanisms。
In the high-rise town of ryan, the staff of the town's defence headquarters are used to view in real time the rainfall in each of the affected villages in the district through the “rian digital weather online” platform. On 19 july 2025, when the rainfall calculator in the village exceeded the “immediate transfer” target, a directive was immediately passed from the town guard command to the village secretary, and the extension was immediately activated and the danger was defused. Risk alert, early warning response form, control order sheet fast flow, closed loop。
The depth of the pilot lies in the socialization of the concept of disaster prevention. Raising public risk awareness is also an important step in disaster prevention and mitigation. The municipal meteorological service has led the construction of 1 model school-based meteorological education district, 8 national meteorological school-based and 22 provincial-level sites, the thunder and power cultural museum and the school-based meteorology school experience hall, among others, and has achieved city-wide coverage of meteorological school positions. The city's meteorology park has established a long-term mechanism for bringing disaster prevention to bear through a small hand-to-hand exercise. The city has also built 2,835 provincial standardized villages (communitys) for meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation, deep-rooted in the most grass-roots soils。
As a chinese meteorological science base, the wenzhou meteorology park attracts more than 100,000 visitors, and its interactive show of music opens a window for young people to explore the clouds. Source: wenzhou city meteorological service
“the pilot is not the end, but the turning point.” liu jianyong indicated. At the moment, wenzhou is working to embed this increasingly sophisticated model of weather disaster risk management into a large system of “urban digital governance” that will provide a solid foundation for climate-resilient cities。
From passive response to active control, from empirical to data-driven, from sectoral performance to social co-governance — weinzhou carved out a road pattern of meteorological disaster risk prevention and control with precise “call-back” and successful risk avoidance. Today, the path of this guardian continues。
"meteorology plus" has an infinite potential
From the credit assessment of financial institutions to the transportation of offshore windfields, from the navigational decisions of inter-island routes to the health guidance of people's lives ... Meteorological data are being used in an innovative manner to participate deeply in every aspect of the economic and social functioning of the coastal city of weinzhou to inject fresh energy into the quality development of this coastal city。
Weather + finance: "climate credit" to "real silver"
"69 minutes." the legal representative of red flag cable group, wang chun-chang, remembers what happened when he received the climate-friendly enterprise rating report. This score means that businesses have reached the “climate loan” access line, which is a key basis for differentiated credit policies by emerging banks。
In november 2021, a cooperation agreement was signed between the meteorology department of the city of wenchuan and the bank's superintendence of wynnzhou to define strategic objectives for the promotion of climate-enabled green finance and to propose the idea of piloting a “climate loan”. In 2022, the ccp-wan city council's office for comprehensive and in-depth reforms included the climate loan pilot in the list of priority tasks for the reform of the marketization of elements (first), providing policy support for the climate loan, the first of which landed in ryan city. In the same year, the meteorology department of the city of luqing launched the “industry climate loan” project, which innovatively developed the “climate friendly enterprise rating system”. Five indicators, measured in percentage terms, range from “natural disaster risk” to “integrated carbon efficiency”, quantifying the resilience of enterprises to weather risks and the effectiveness of green transformations as clear points. Businesses can submit on-line "meteorology disaster defense standardization desks" from the application platform, and the meteorological sector provides an important reference for loan approvals and interest rate fluctuations through the automated use of historical disaster risk mapping and atmospheric self-reinforcing data from the enterprise's location, which are evaluated in combination with business materials。
On 16 may 2025, wenzhou city, wen sung county, yang mei entered a hard-core period and the district meteorological service conducted a field study on yang mei's situation and heard menon's needs and recommendations for meteorological services. Photography: tianjunjie
“we received loan support of $33. 1 million, with interest rates favouring five basis points and saving a lot of financial costs each year.” wang chun says. This money is invested in new plant construction, graphite material upgrading, etc. Today, new energy block production by enterprises has increased by more than 30 per cent, becoming an example of green financial innovation in the city of wenzhou, increasing production efficiency seven to eight times。
This model has now been extended from industry to agriculture, and the “climate loan” services are being channelled precisely to farmers, including through the “triple-one” swipe farmers platform。
Weather + energy: precision of the urban energy vein
In the context of the national “bicarbon” strategy, the municipal meteorological services focus on the two core tasks of “power facility security” and “energy storage and transport security” and contribute to the overall transformation of energy weather services to specialization, precision and intelligence, reaching out to every key node of the energy industry。
At the australasian nuclear power base, meteorological security has passed through the life cycle of construction, transportation and emergency response. In response to the stringent requirements of wind speed for the assembly of large-scale equipment, the meteorological sector has set up an early warning indicator of the risk profile, identifying risk thresholds and response criteria for disasters such as wind, storm and low visibility, and developing a customized service model of “one-stop indicators, one-view warning”. In 2025, 103 thematic forecasts were issued cumulatively, successfully escorting the safe and stable operation of the first phase of the nuclear power plant and the smooth progress of phase ii, avoiding the construction risks associated with multiple typhoons and heavy rainfall。
In the east sea, the offloading of the weinzhou liquefied natural gas reception station is equally a meteorological escort. “we have provided finely refined forecasts and window-times for high-impact weather, such as wind, fog and strong currents, and in 2025 we have guaranteed 20 voyages and 40 detached operations of liquefied natural gas from the gas power plant of zhecan wenzhou.” the director of the weather service centre of winzhou city, cao shang, explained that the weather service had effectively improved the efficiency and security of port operations, with a total of 2. 57 million tons safely unloaded。
Meteorological “green enabling” is also extending to new energy sources. The strategic service partnership established with the grand tang new energy corporation, winzhou, has resulted in a significant improvement in the accuracy of short-term forecasting for photovoltaic power generation, providing a critical support for grid movement and electricity market transactions。
“in the future, wenzhou will accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence, big data technologies in professional services, and improve the contribution of weather to the safety support and value of modern energy systems. "the deputy director of the weather service of wenzhou said。
Weather + traffic: keep every journey safe
For the inhabitants of the cavities of the island, the inter-island traffic gate, the “share-lose” route, is the “lifeline” connecting the outside world. In the past, a morning fog could have brought the course to a standstill。
“pursuant to the general standard of visibility below 2,000 m for suspension.” the general manager of the elk shipping company in the holehead area, wang zhou zhou, “but we have a short distance and an uneven distribution of the mist in the sea, often with the embarrassment that the pier is visible and the route is not open”
Change begins with a multisectoral synergy. In 2023, transport, maritime, meteorological and shipping companies joined forces to analyse three-year automatic weather station visibility and stoppage data based on meteorological standards, and to jointly demonstrate a new, more scientific and realistic standard: optimizing the cut-off threshold from 2000 to 1800 metres, both to ensure safety and to accommodate islanders ' travel needs. The 200-metre increase was backed by rigorous scientific analysis and shared responsibility. When the new mechanism is operational, decision-making is no longer dependent on a single remote site data, but is based on a combination of ferries with live visibility, mist marking clarity and meteorological features. In 2025, the route was reduced from 65 days in 2019 to less than 7 days by fog and the passenger shipping efficiency increased significantly, while the safety threshold remained unchanged。
On the surface of the neon street in the cavehead of the city of wenzhou, the long violet farming area constitutes a spectacular “maritime violet garden” in which farm vessels travel. Source: holehead meteorological department
For high-altitude mountain roads, road ice forecasting is also carried out by meteorological services, with significant improvements in high-speed control efficiency. In wenzhou, meteorological early warning information is sent to users, such as freight drivers, bus companies, shipping companies, etc., by means of target dissemination technology to safeguard the safety of each leg of the journey。
The tentacles of meteorological services have deepened into the nuances of urban governance and public services in winzhou. In the area of fire protection, municipal meteorological services are linked to the municipal fire rescue sub-unit to provide real-time wind and wind-specific services in the event of a large complex fire, providing critical support for scientific fire-fighting programmes and the safety of firefighters. In the area of health, in cooperation with insurance agencies, the effects of meteorological conditions on the incidence of cardiovascular diseases are analysed, and attempts are made to distribute health risk alerts to high-risk groups, allowing early warning to be extended from “prevention” to “prevention”. For ordinary citizens, weather services are presented in a more thoughtful and intelligent way. Typhoon warning codes generate individualized disaster preparedness guidelines based on user positioning. The seeds of disaster prevention and mitigation are deeply embedded in music, from a meteorological science base to a “hundreds of schools” family laboratory。
In the future, the meteorological services will continue to expand the borders, but at the same time, with the same intention to safeguard the lives and property of the people and inject solid meteorological power into the high-quality development of cities。
Fourth edition of the china weather service, 23 december 2025
Author: zhang zawawa, zhui zianfan
