On 16 may 2025, in order to increase public awareness of earthquake mitigation and emergency avoidance, self-help and mutual rescue capabilities, the china disaster defense association of the united china for peace, the earthquake bureau of gansu province, the people's government of pyeongxia county and the people's government of rockshan county organized a campaign entitled “break-level emergency capacity improvement 2025” in lanzhou, gansu province, and jointly published the basic guide for earthquake knowledge and earthquake avoidance。
At the same time, china's peace and solidarity union rock hill county launched the “four ones” initiative to upgrade its basic emergency response capacity, namely, the establishment of an emergency management system, a series of hands-on exercises and security trainings, the promotion of a general science guide, and the implementation of a school-based emergency site renovation. In conjunction with the china disaster defense association, china's safe births risk and safety corporation has published a series of scientific publications entitled " general guide to seismic knowledge and seismic avoidance " (hereinafter referred to as the " guide to science " )。
In addition, safe life risk officially released a “peaceful earthquake catastrophe model” and presented its theoretical functions, technical support and innovative practices in risk reduction. Safe births and risk gansu sub-company has also signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the gansu earthquake department on “advancement of disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, earthquake and disaster insurance studies in gangan” to work together to build a full-chain disaster risk management system。
The secretary, chairman and ceo dragon spring of the safe motherhood party stated that earthquake mitigation was a marathon with no endpoint, and that the production of the cop guide was an important milestone. In the future, safe motherhood insurance will continue to work with the government, scientific institutions, community organizations and the public at large to facilitate the transition from “passive defence” to “active immunization” for earthquake mitigation. Representatives of the china disaster defense association, the gansu provincial emergency management department, the gansu provincial earthquake bureau, the gansu provincial academy of sciences, the gansu provincial education department, the people's government of pixa county, the china social assistance foundation, government agencies such as china peace, expert scholars and business representatives participated in the event to share experiences in post-earthquake reconstruction and major disaster insurance applications to help build capacity for disaster prevention and mitigation at the grass-roots level。
Government and industry work together to protect lifelines and help transform disaster management models into proactive prevention
In order to promote universal knowledge of disaster prevention and mitigation throughout society, the united china disaster defense association, among others, has issued a guide to science, which provides a systematic introduction to the mechanisms for the occurrence of earthquake disasters, post-earthquake self-help techniques, mutual rescue principles and approaches, post-disaster life reconstruction and building resistance designs。
A strategic framework agreement was signed between the government and industry to establish a line of defence for disaster prevention and mitigation. The gansu sub-sector for safe births and risks and the gansu department of earthquakes, on the “gansu sample” of national earthquake major disaster insurance and responsive urban construction through policy synergies and innovation, integration of scientific and technical data, training in disaster prevention and mitigation, livelihood security programmes and results conversion applications。
Earthquake disaster risk preparedness cannot rely solely on “passive response”, but requires the construction of a “cycle-wide, multi-level, society-wide” active defence system. On this occasion, china peace and security jointly launched the “four ones” initiative to upgrade basic emergency response capacity at the grass-roots level, which will further refine the management of emergency response structures and grids in 16 settlements throughout the earthquake-affected areas of the county, develop emergency preparedness plans and work manuals; organize emergency response exercises for government personnel, business employees, community residents and student and teacher groups; distribute the earthquake disaster prevention and preparedness manual to families in the county; learn about risk avoidance, escape and self-help mutual rescue; and pilot out the darya high school, optimize the deployment of emergency shelter sites, add emergency lighting, communications facilities, medical first aid stations and material storage units, upgrade evacuation routes and improve marking systems, and upgrade the emergency security capacity on campus. According to information received, on 18 december 2023, during the 6. 2 magnitude earthquake that struck gansu qishan county in shaozhou, the united china for peace and china social relief foundation carried out an operation entitled “safely assisting the earthquake-affected areas of gansuqing sea” by donating rmb 10 million to the stone-affected areas。
The president of the china disaster defense association, former member of the party committee of the ministry of emergency management and vice-minister zheng guo guang stated that disaster prevention and mitigation depended on the government and required the participation of the entire community. The china disaster defense association will continue to act as a bridge and deepen its cooperation with chinese enterprises such as peace and security. In the future, it will continue to promote knowledge of disaster prevention and mitigation into communities, schools and businesses, so that the scientific awareness of risk avoidance can take root at the grass-roots level, and will help to build new patterns of disaster prevention and mitigation that are “government-led, social synergy and public participation”。
As one of the worst earthquake-affected provinces in the country, gansu, the party secretary and director of the gansu department of earthquakes, ishiyu, expressed the view that in recent years he had been in the first place for the third consecutive year in the country to respond efficiently to five or more earthquakes in the past three years, through the construction of a modern seismic security system “monitoring intelligence, early warning precision, defence science and efficient disposal”. The publication of the cops guide is a vivid exercise in the implementation of the concept of “two wings fly”, and its four-dimensional framework of “common sense-prevention-response-security” integrates research findings and practice cases, providing scientific guidance to subjects such as businesses, communities and others to acquire shock avoidance skills。
According to zhang xiaobo, member and deputy director of the party committee of the gansu department of emergency management, the launch of the science guide provides scientific guidance to the public in the context of the national disaster prevention and mitigation awareness week, and looks forward to mobilizing more people to participate in disaster prevention and mitigation practices and to establishing a firm line of defence for people in disaster prevention and mitigation。
The director-general of the peace group brand promotion department, chen yue, stated that the grass-roots level was the “initial 1 km” of disaster risk prevention and the “first line of defence” for dealing with all types of sudden-onset disaster. China will use this event as an opportunity to advance the “1+n” partnership model for emergency management to reach out to priority regions and sub-divisions, to bring together all parties, to help move the disaster management model towards prevention and to reduce disaster risks to the greatest extent possible。
Technology-enabled risk reduction, building a new national ecosystem for disaster prevention and mitigation
At the event, safe births risk officially released the safe earthquake catastrophe model. The model was described as an innovative tool developed against the background of the high frequency of earthquakes in china and the urgent need for risk assessment, with the aim of serving national strategies and improving the disaster safety and security system. Based on multi-source high-precision data, the model builds four core modules of the random event model, the seismic motion model, the vulnerability model and the seismic loss model, combining supercalculations, the large time and space data platform and a team of professionals to achieve scientific quantification and precision assessment of seismic risk. Its technical features include a kilometre-scale simulation accuracy, a second-scale response capability and a nationally produced software and hardware security that can generate seismic risk maps to support three scenarios applications for risk identification, disaster prevention and mitigation and the development of mega-disaster products. In addition, in response to natural disasters, the safe and productive life self-researched eagle eye system has built a digital risk map of more than 10 disasters, including earthquakes, through the precise identification, early warning and management of multi-hazard disaster risks, providing accurate early warning of nearly 20 disasters and a probabilities model for dealing with major disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and storms. In 2024, the safe motherhood insurance scheme, through app circulars, sms alerts, aai telephone calls, accumulated 411,000 warnings of disasters such as typhoons, storms, etc., sent 105,5 billion warning messages and provided more than 200,000 on-site services online, covering a total of 6. 734 million individuals and business clients。
In order to deepen the application of scientific and technological innovation in disaster prevention and response, in october 2024, the safe life risks initiative launched the great bay centre for innovations in risk reduction in guangdong, which has innovatively developed the "ai video alert + remote duty intervention + expert excursion" management model by integrating the resources of over 20 specialized institutions, including local academies of science and universities. The model has resulted in the immediate detection and disposal of the risks of engineering accidents in 25 townships in the east, the cumulative trigger of risk alerts 237 times in 2025 and the remote intervention of 46 times, the achievement of zero accidents in 72 engineering projects and the effective elimination of all kinds of accident hazards, as well as the screening of 57 cases involving over $11. 4 billion in 1140 enterprises, based on the “system for the prevention of security risks”。
Peace in china states that it is the duty of insurance to safeguard the lives and property of the people and that the grass-roots level is the first line of disaster prevention and relief. Strengthening capacity-building for grass-roots emergency response is important for enhancing disaster prevention and response capacity. The company will further develop its own “insurance + technology + services”, deepen its “risk reduction + public goods” initiative, and actively participate in the construction of a grass-roots emergency management system, contributing to the safety and security of people's lives and property and social stability。
