Cultivate the ＂first responders＂ to be safe around them.
The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress proposed to improve the ability of disaster prevention, mitigation and relief and the handling of major public emergencies, and strengthen the construction of national and regional emergency forces.
China is one of the countries with the most serious natural disasters in the world, with many kinds of disasters, wide geographical distribution, high frequency and heavy losses, which is a basic national condition.
Timely and accurate statistical reporting of disasters is a prerequisite for efficient and orderly rescue and relief work. In China, disaster information officers at all levels are responsible for disaster statistics reporting. How has this team developed in recent years? What kind of role does it play? How to continue to improve professional ability? The reporter interviewed the heads of relevant departments of the Emergency Management Department and relevant grassroots workers.
Team system — —
Extend the grassroots to cover the whole country.
Last June, during the flood season, Liao Zhiteng, a disaster information officer in Longji Village, Longji Town, Longsheng Autonomous County, Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, visited the village several times a day. On the night of June 21st, heavy rainfall caused many signs of landslide and road collapse. After Liao Zhiteng found it, he immediately reported to the person in charge of disaster monitoring in Longji Town, and woke up the villagers with the big horn in the village, quickly organized evacuation and safely transferred more than 450 people within 2 hours.
Liao Zhiteng is one of more than 16,000 disaster information officers in Guangxi, and also the epitome of more than 1 million disaster information officers in China.
Lai Hongzhou, deputy director of the Disaster Relief and Material Support Department of the Emergency Management Department, introduced that at present, China has built a five-level disaster information officer system covering the whole country, with at least one disaster information officer in each village (community), and many people are on duty in disaster-prone areas.
Building a team of disaster information officers aims to build a nationwide disaster information statistical reporting network. Every disaster information officer is the "nerve terminal" of this network, which provides important information support for emergency rescue and disaster relief decisions of various localities and departments, and minimizes the loss of people’s lives and property.
"In 2022, disaster information officers at all levels in China submitted a total of 493,000 pieces of disaster and danger information, especially from late May to late June in the South ‘ Dragon boat water ’ During the period, as well as the heavy rainfall in the northern region and the flood control and disaster relief work in the Liaohe River Basin, disaster information officers in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Liaoning, Shanxi and other places timely transmitted early warning information such as heavy rain, flash floods and geological disasters, and decisively handled sudden dangerous disasters in advance, and transferred and resettled the affected people in the first time, effectively avoiding casualties and reducing property losses. " Come to Hongzhou to say.
It is understood that more than 90% of grassroots disaster information officers are township (street) cadres and members of the village (community) committees; There are also some social forces absorbed by the government through purchasing services and setting up public welfare posts, including volunteers, grassroots people and safety management personnel of enterprises and institutions.
According to the relevant person in charge of Guangxi Geological Environment Monitoring Station, to become a disaster information officer, you need to be able to quickly master simple monitoring methods of geological disasters such as pile burying method, nail burying method and patch method, and at the same time live in the local area for a long time, be familiar with the surrounding environment and have a strong sense of responsibility.
Working mechanism — —
Program specification is smooth and efficient
In June last year, Qijiang District of Chongqing suffered from heavy rainfall, the water levels of many rivers rose, and flash floods occurred in local rivers. In the early morning of June 1, Zhou Kaili, a staff member and disaster information officer of the Emergency Office of Yongxin Town People’s Government, took action immediately after receiving a number of warning messages of lightning, rainstorm and strong wind. While calling the relevant village-level disaster information officer to collect disaster investigation information, she sent and received prompt messages in the work group. Early that morning, Zhou Kaili reported the initial data of the disaster.
The disaster information officer shall report the disaster in strict accordance with the procedures of initial report, continuation report and verification report. "2 hours of initial disaster report, 24 hours of disaster report, 5 days of disaster report, major disaster report immediately." Zhou Kaili will learn the requirements by heart.
It is also the task of the disaster information officer to assist in the emergency relocation and resettlement of the affected people and emergency life assistance. Zhou Kaili took out a ledger of relief materials, which recorded the warehousing and warehousing of relief materials in detail. Zhou Kaili carried this ledger with her and distributed relief materials with village cadres to ensure the basic livelihood of the affected people.
Disaster information reporting requirements are true and accurate. "The highway in Muguacun is damaged, please check the loss data." As a town-level disaster information officer, Zhou Kaili checked the disaster losses one by one with the village-level disaster information officer and entered the information into the national natural disaster management system one by one.
In recent years, Chongqing has strengthened the construction of disaster information staff. At present, there are 21,000 disaster information staff, at least two full-time disaster information staff in all districts and counties, at least one full-time and one part-time backbone disaster information staff in towns (streets) and at least two part-time disaster information staff in villages (communities).
Only when disaster information officers at all levels perform their duties can disaster information be submitted more smoothly and efficiently. According to reports, from the perspective of working procedures, disaster information officers should first complete the disaster statistics and submit them in time, and count the disasters in the region as soon as possible after the disaster, and report them to the next level for review and summary; Second, we must do a good job in the management of disaster accounts, and timely fill in detailed information such as the time, place, type of disaster, scope of influence, disaster losses, etc., especially to build a ledger of missing people who died due to the disaster and a ledger of houses damaged due to the disaster; Third, it is necessary to carry out disaster verification, assessment and consultation. After the disaster is stable, disaster information officers at the provincial, municipal and county levels need to hold disaster consultation in time, and in case of major disasters, they should also organize disaster loss verification and assessment to ensure objective and accurate disaster data.
Capacity building — —
Long-term improvement of graded training
In addition to reporting disaster statistics, disaster information officers should also be familiar with relevant laws and regulations, take into account the transmission of early warning information, the investigation of hidden dangers of disasters, the submission of dangerous information, etc., and assist in the emergency transfer and resettlement of the affected people and emergency life assistance. They are the "first responders" of grassroots disaster prevention, mitigation and relief. "There are a large number of disaster information officers at the grassroots level, and the flow is fast. The training convergence work must be in place to really play its role." Cao Zhongsheng, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Committee of Chenzhou Emergency Management Bureau, Hunan Province, said.
Since 2019, the ministerial level of the Emergency Management Department has trained more than 100,000 teachers of national disaster information officers every year through the combination of on-site lectures and video connection, plus extended training at local levels, basically achieving full coverage of disaster information officer training at all levels.
Emergency management departments at all levels focus on different levels of disaster information personnel training. Focus on training disaster management policies, verification and evaluation, consultation and approval for provincial and municipal disaster information officers; Focus on training disaster information officers at county and township levels in disaster statistics and reporting, loss calculation, ledger management and practical operation of disaster reporting system; For village-level and community-level disaster information officers, do a good job in the investigation report of disasters and dangers.
There are a large number of disaster information officers at the grass-roots level. If all of them are trained in a centralized way, it will take a long time and a large number of people and be difficult. How to solve such a problem?
Villi, head of the Comprehensive Disaster Reduction and Plan Management Unit of the Emergency Management Bureau of Suxian District, Chenzhou City, said that there are more than 300 disaster information officers in towns (streets) and villages (communities) in Suxian District. To this end, in April 2022, before the main flood season came, Suxian District sent the backbone of teachers to towns (streets) to train disaster information officers in villages (communities) one by one, and then the corresponding measures were promoted throughout Chenzhou. Since the beginning of this year, Beihu District, Suxian District and Guiyang County of Chenzhou City have completed the training of disaster information officers at the township (street) and village (community) levels.
(Reporter Qiu Chaoyu, Virginia Lieu, Zheng Yi, Wang Xinyue, Shen Zhilin)
Coordination in this period: Zhang Jiaying.