(The 36th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Sichuan Province, 7 July 2009, considered the adoption of Decree No. 237 of 7 August 2009, published as from 1 November 2009)

Article 1 establishes this provision for the regulation of the release and dissemination of meteorological disaster warning signals, defence and mitigation of meteoral disasters, and the safety of people's life and property, in accordance with the People's Republic of China Meteorological Act and the Sichuan Province Meteorological Disaster Defence Regulations.

Article 2 publishes and disseminates meteorological disaster early warning signals in the administration of Sichuan Province, implements the corresponding defence measures and applies this provision.

Article 3 Early warning signals for meteorological disasters (hereinafter referred to as early warning signals) are divided into 14 categories such as droughts, storms, snow cover, cholera, ice, creativity, typhoons, denunciation, sand dust, ice, road ices and fire risk warning.

Early warning signals are generally divided into four levels, depending on the level of harm, urgency and development that may be caused by meteorological disasters, divided into general, weight, severity and particular gravity, and are expressed on the basis of blue colour, creativity, orange, red map.

Article IV above-level meteorological authorities are responsible for the issuance, updating, removal and dissemination of early warning signals within the current administration.

Ministries such as radio Television, press publication, communications, are working in line with the responsibilities of meteorological authorities to communicate early warning signals.

Article 5 Governments at the local level should strengthen early warning signal transmission infrastructure, organize relevant sectors to establish meteorological disaster early warning response mechanisms and systems, open access to early warning signals and expand early warning information coverage.

Article 6 Early warning signals are published by meteorological stations (hereinafter referred to as meteorological stations) by more than the district-level meteorological authorities in accordance with their responsibilities, and no other organization or individual may be issued.

Article 7. Meteorological stations should publish early warning signals in a timely and accurate manner, specifying areas for early warning of meteoral disasters and update or distract from the warning signals issued in response to weather changes.

The issuance of early warning signals or the updating, release of early warning signals should report on a timely basis on high-level meteorological authorities and local people's governments to inform the relevant sectors and the media.

The release of the Khmer early warning signal must be presented with the consent of the top-level meteorological authorities.

The dissemination media, such as radio, television and communications and information networks, should establish a rapid and stable and effective early warning signal transmission system with meteorological stations, which should be communicated to the public immediately and accurately after receiving early warning signals from local meteorological stations.

Article 9. Early warning signals disseminated by the media should use timely warning signals directly provided by meteorological stations and indicate the name and timing of the meteorological stations that issued early warning signals, without modifying and removing the content of early warning signals, and not denying the dissemination of early warning signals and not disseminating false, outdated early warning signals.

Article 10 The media should transmit the names of early warning signals, maps, as set out in the Guidelines on Meteorological Disaster Early Warning signals and Defence in the Sichuan Province. National minorities should use local languages.

The Government of the local population at the district level and its relevant sectors should be informed in a timely manner, after receiving early warning signals from meteorological stations.

After receiving early warning signals from the commune government and the street offices, measures should be taken to disseminate widely to the public in the Territory.

Management units in public places such as schools, airports, ports, vehicle stations, highway, tourist sites should establish facilities or use effective facilities to disseminate early warning signals.

Article 12. Relevant sectors and units such as land resources, construction, agriculture, forestry, transport, railway, water, education and health should be guided by the Early Warning signals and defence guides for meteorology in the Sichuan Province, in conjunction with this sector, the industry actually develops meteorological disaster defence programmes and organizes implementation, and avoids or reduces the damage caused by meteorological disasters.

Article 13 Early warning signals clearly presuppose areas that may be affected, the local people's Government and its relevant authorities should carefully analyse the potential impacts of the disaster and trigger emergency scenarios in due course.

In the event of emergency, the people's Government in the area of meteorological disasters should issue announcements and organize appropriate defence measures; local people's governments, grass-roots self-government organizations and businesses, schools, etc. should be mobilized and organized in a timely manner the transfer, evacuation and release of persons who may be threatened by disasters.

Article 14. The authorities of the local population at the district level are protected by law by the authorities in relation to the specialized communications facility for early warning signals, and no organization or individual shall take charge of movement, appropriation and destruction.

Early warning signals have been damaged by major disasters and the local people's Government should take urgent measures to rehabilitate them in a timely manner.

Article 15. Meteorological authorities and advocacy at all levels, the education sector should strengthen knowledge-raising campaigns in the Meteorological Disaster Defence Section, organize a variety of forms of awareness-raising activities and enhance public knowledge and capacity for early warning signals and defence guidance.

Article 16, in violation of this provision, has legal responsibility under the provisions of article 33, article 38, and article 22, of the People's Republic of China Meteorological Act, which states:

(i) The illegal publication and dissemination of early warning signals to society;

(ii) Media such as radio, television, communications, information networks do not disseminate early warning signals in a timely manner;

(iii) Recurrent mobile, expropriation and destruction of specialized communications facilities for early warning signals.

Article 17, in violation of this provision, fails to disseminate early warning signals in a timely manner or to take appropriate defence measures, resulting in a serious loss in the life of the people and administrative disposition of persons directly responsible and responsible; and criminal liability by law.

Article 18 Meteorological staff play a role, leading to a significant error in the issuance of early warning signals, administrative disposition of those directly responsible and responsible; and legal accountability.

Following the implementation of this provision, provincial meteorological authorities may make use of early warning signals based on the standards and provisions of the Department of State's meteorological authorities' early warning signals, to develop and improve defence guidelines for the release of the Provincial People's Government case.

Article 20

The Sichuan Provincial Early Warning signal and Defence Guidelines are published in conjunction with this provision.