First, our country is located in the district where affected by the strong activities of Pacific plate, Indian plate and Eurasian plate. And then the terrain in China is high in the west and low in the east and the spatiotemporal distribution of rainfall is uneven. The third, we are next to the Pacific Ocean in the east where is the main source of typhoon. Above all, China is under the combined action caused by the special natural situation. The distribution diagram of major natural disasters in the world between 1950 and 2010 marked signally that our country suffered from serious attacks of typhoon, drought and earthquake in the long term.
Party Central Committee and the State Council payed high attention to the prevention and reduction of natural disasters after China was founded and through the efforts for decades of national people, we acquired remarkable effect. But, because of the large population, the poor foundation and the limited capability for protecting against the damage from disasters, we still have a lot of vulnerable spots in our prevention and reduction of disasters and the frequent disasters still caused serious damage to the people’s lives and financial security, strong impact to the social development and economy and damage to the environment.
The information is provided from Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service.
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