China to strengthen capacity-building to cope with extreme climate

International Online report (reporter Hu Yang) Guoguang, director of the China Meteorological Bureau, said in 2011 that China's Meteorological Department will actively respond to climate change, strengthen capacity-building in response to extreme climate, and strengthen the construction of disaster prevention and mitigation system. During the meeting, the 2010 China Climate Bulletin disclosed that in 2010, China's meteorological disasters and secondary disasters caused direct economic losses of more than 500 billion yuan, as a result of the death toll of more than 4,800 people, the direct economic loss and death toll are nearly 10 years most. Guoguang said: "2010 is the most extreme meteorological disasters since the year, but also meteorological disasters and derivative disasters caused casualties of the most serious year, the most since this century." Only Zhouqu 1400 people died, more than 300 people missing, Zhouqu 2 hours of precipitation 97 mm, is the local two months of precipitation, last year, the meteorological disaster burst, multiple, widespread, disaster is rare for many years. "China's agriculture is the most affected by meteorological disasters, in recent years, China has been strengthening the construction of agricultural meteorological service system for agricultural production to provide a full range of the entire process of meteorological services." "The bulletin" disclosed that from 2010 China's major crop production areas due to rainstorm floods and droughts, low-temperature freezing and snow storms and other meteorological disasters, but through early warning reports, scientific management, rational cultivation, coupled with the late conditions, China's food industry still has a good harvest.　　Guoguang stressed that although food production for seven consecutive years, but Chinese agriculture to change the Fed still have a long way to go. Guoguang said that the rural areas are the most vulnerable to the disaster prevention of meteorological disasters in China, the farmers are the most affected by meteorological disasters of the disadvantaged groups. He said: "We more than 90% a year of meteorological disasters caused by the death of people are farmers." The death caused by thunder and lightning in Jiangxi Province in late July 2007 was 114, 100% were farmers, and nearly 90% were working farmers. To promote the equalization of urban and rural public services, so that farmers enjoy the same weather services as urban residents. "Talking about the next five years, Guoguang said, during the 35 period, the meteorological Department should do a good job of meteorological disaster monitoring and forecasting early warning and prevention work." Focus on meteorological disaster monitoring and forecasting early warning and emergency disposal. Further promote the construction of meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation system. We will further improve the meteorological disaster defense mechanism of "government leadership, departmental linkage and social participation", perfect the meteorological disaster early warning information release mechanism and various departments emergency linkage mechanism, realize the effective connection between the early warning service and various departments to prevent and reduce disasters, and focus on the meteorological service work for agriculture. He said: "To strengthen the construction of agricultural meteorological Service system and the rural Meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation system, for agricultural production to provide a full range of the entire process of meteorological services." Second, we should strengthen the monitoring and early warning of the disastrous weather in agricultural production, such as rainstorm, drought, dry hot air, low temperature, typhoon and other monitoring and early warning service, improve accuracy and refinement level. The third is to do the work of artificial influence weather, artificially increase rain and hail and so on, comprehensively promote agriculture in agriculture disaster prevention and mitigation, to ensure agricultural production capacity。 Four is to expand the coverage of rural meteorological information, to provide farmers with timely and effective, targeted meteorological services products. ”