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Hubei Province Natural Disaster Relief Measures

Original Language Title: 湖北省自然灾害救助办法

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Chapter I General

Article 1, in order to regulate natural disaster relief efforts, enhance the resilience of natural disasters and guarantee the basic life of affected persons, develop this approach in line with the laws, regulations, such as the People's Republic of China's Emergency Response Act.

This approach applies to the provision of assistance to natural disasters in the administrative region of the province.

This approach refers to persons affected by natural disasters or which may cause bodily injury, loss of property, and production of life, which are affected by natural disasters, which are provided in a timely manner with the necessary means of living in accordance with the law to guarantee their basic life needs, such as food, drinking water, clothing, heating, safe shelter, medical protection.

Article III. Natural disaster relief efforts should be efficient and orderly, upholding the principle of people-centred, government-led, decentralized management, social assistance, disaster-saving, combining economic restructuring, ecological civilization and poverty reduction efforts, and establishing a system of sound natural disaster relief and operational mechanisms.

Article IV. Natural disaster relief is exercised by the executive head of the Government.

The Provincial Committee for Disaster Reduction is responsible for organizing, leading natural disaster relief efforts throughout the province and coordinating major natural disaster relief activities. The Municipal, District-level Committee on Disaster Reduction is responsible for organizing, coordinating and coordinating natural disaster relief efforts in the current administration.

More than the people's governments at the district level should establish joint natural disaster relief cooperation mechanisms to strengthen alliances and cooperation among all levels of disaster risk reduction committees, between the primary disaster reduction committees and the neighbouring administrative regions, to achieve sharing information on cross-regional, cross-sectoral natural disasters and to enhance the resilience of natural disasters.

Article 5

More than the population at the district level develops and reforms, education, public safety, finance, human resources and social security, land resources, housing and rural and urban construction, transport, environmental protection, water, agriculture, health and family planning, forestry, meteorology, earthquakes, etc.

The Government of the commune (communes) and the street offices are responsible for the current administrative regional information on natural disasters, for the first time, and for emergency self-saving. The Village (HL) Commission assists the communes (communes) in accordance with the law and the street offices in natural disasters.

Social organizations such as the Red Cross, philanthropic and other public funds have helped the people's Government to undertake natural disaster relief efforts, in accordance with legal, regulatory and constitutional provisions.

Article 6. Governments at all levels should strengthen the awareness of disaster risk reduction and increase citizens' awareness of disaster prevention and resilience. Conditional areas could build the Education Base for the Prevention of Disaster Reduction Section.

National agencies, business units should organize awareness-raising activities for disaster relief response, in line with their respective practice. Schools and kindergartens should strengthen awareness-raising and regular emergency response exercises for students.

The media, such as radio, television, newspapers and the Internet, should carry out public information on disaster relief knowledge without compensation.

Article 7 encourages units and individuals to participate in natural disasters in the provision of donations and voluntary services and in activities such as disaster prevention, disaster relief and reconstruction.

Units and individuals that have made a prominent contribution to natural disaster relief are recognized and rewarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of States and provinces.

Chapter II Disaster prevention

Article 8. Governments of more people at the district level or the Committee on Disaster Reduction shall prepare integrated and medium- and long-term disaster risk reduction planning and specific planning in accordance with the assessment of natural disasters in the current administrative region. Urban and rural construction planning and major project selection sites should be aligned with national and provincial standards and requirements for disaster risk reduction.

More than the people at the district level and their relevant sectors should be integrated in planning, rationalizing the construction of the disaster prevention infrastructure and enhancing natural disaster defence capacity. Regional drought areas should take measures such as construction of water pipelines, the development of water facilities, the increase of drought crops, the full use of water sources such as the River, lakes, and the optimization of water resources and sustainable development.

Article 9. Governments of the above-mentioned population at the district level and their relevant departments should develop pre-empts for natural disaster response and, where appropriate, organize the performance, assessment and revision of emergency preparedness cases. The Government of the commune (communes) and the street offices should develop natural disaster response scenarios and organize regular emergency response exercises.

Article 10 Governments of more than communes should strengthen capacity-building in emergency communications, emergency decision-making, emergency movement control, use of public communications networks resources and e-government network platforms, establish a robust natural disaster response command technology support system, and develop functional and efficient natural disaster response command systems.

The civilian component of the Government of the above-mentioned population should analyse the types, quantity and technical parameters of the equipment required to assess natural disaster response, with the necessary work protection, emergency communications, emergency transport, audio video recording, etc.

Article 11

The Committee should analyse, assess information on early warning forecasts in a timely manner and initiate early warning responses based on natural disaster early warning forecasts or drawing upon the Government of the people at this level, take appropriate early warning measures to release natural disaster risk warnings to society, open emergency shelters and prepare basic life assistance.

Article 12. Governments of more than veterans at the district level should integrate planning, building emergency shelters, providing the necessary emergency shelters, such as emergency water supply, electricity, firefighting, sanitation, etc., with clear brands, instructions, and clear location maintenance units. Disasters, townships in disaster-prone areas and natural villages with population concentration should put in place emergency shelters.

Regional, commune and commune governments should organize risk identification, registration and assessment of local sources of natural disasters at the beginning of each year to explore the establishment of a natural disaster risk database; and provide timely preventive measures to manage the identified risks and organize the safe relocation of residents in hazardous regions.

Article 13 establishes a natural resource reserve system. The provincial Government's civil affairs sector should develop planning for the production, procurement, transport, reserve, replenishment, regulation and emergency transport systems with the development and reform, the financial sector, for the planning and storage of natural disasters throughout the province.

The municipal, district-level people's Government builds the natural resource reserve in accordance with the principle of reasonableness and magnitude of the capital reserve, in accordance with the provincial-established reserve planning. The Government of the commune (communes) and the street offices can be equipped with the necessary emergency material in a manner that facilitates, economic consultation with the purchase of supermarkets or warehousings.

Article 14. The Government of the people at the district level should strengthen the building of the specialized disaster prevention and mitigation team by organizing, as appropriate, operational training for disaster relief workers, such as disaster informants, volunteers, and enhancing disaster risk reduction and emergency response capacity.

The Government's civil affairs sector at the district level should conduct scientific applications for disaster prevention, early warning, monitoring, assessment systems, in conjunction with national land resources, environmental protection, water, agriculture, forestry, meteorology and earthquakes.

Article 15. Villages (residents), business units should establish natural disaster informationers in accordance with national provisions to assist the civilian sector and the communes (communes), street offices to receive information on disaster early warning forecasts, communicate information collection, reporting, participation in natural disaster relief, disaster risk reduction information advocacy. Natural disaster informationers, combined with the grass-roots social management network, can benefit from adequate work subsidies.

Citizens, legal persons or other organizations should promote a spirit of solidarity in response to disasters, be vigilant in fulfilling their statutory obligations, actively involved in, and actively cooperate with the people's Government in providing assistance for natural disasters; information on natural disasters received should be reported immediately to the local people's Government, relevant authorities or natural disaster informationers.

Chapter III Emergency relief

Article 16 Governments of more people at the district level or the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction should be launched in a timely manner in response to natural disasters, and in accordance with the levels of disaster response, depending on the circumstances and impacts.

The units of the members of the Committee for Disaster Reduction should perform their respective emergency response responsibilities in accordance with the levels of response to natural disasters, in accordance with the division of responsibility, to strengthen coordination and cooperation in the area of emergency response.

Article 17 Governments of affected areas or the Committee on Disaster Reduction should immediately release government responses and public preventive measures to society, immediately after the start of the emergency response, to urgently transfer affected persons, to urgently allocate, transport natural disaster relief funds and supplies, and provide emergency relief to affected persons in a timely manner.

The sectors such as civil affairs in affected areas should provide emergency relief assistance and supplies to those who meet the conditions of natural disasters in a timely manner, guaranteeing basic life needs, such as food, drinking water and clothing, during the emergency response of affected persons.

The civil affairs sector in the affected areas should verify the basic situation of the victims of disasters and provide timely relief to relatives of the victims. The victims are eligible for work injury determination and are treated under the law.

The Government of the commune (communes) and the street offices should be promptly verified, the statistical authorities should pay their relatives their condolences, help and other sexual care. The Village (HL) Committee assists the communes (communes) and the street offices in such work.

Social organizations such as the ICRC, philanthropic and other public funds should provide humanitarian assistance, counselling, etc. to relatives of the victims, those who have suffered severe injuries and others who are urgently needed.

In the event of a major natural disaster, the reserve of relief supplies cannot meet the needs of emergency relief, emergency turmoil, emergency relocation, etc., with the consent of the Government of the people at this level, to organize emergency procurements by the civil service and to resubmission procurement plans to government procurement authorities.

When natural disaster relief funds, materials, equipment, etc. cannot be met, the Government of the people of the affected areas may request support from the Government. For emergency supplies, equipment, transport tools and sites, the right of ownership should be returned in a timely manner after the end of the emergency relief effort and compensated in accordance with the relevant national provisions.

Article 20 Traffic management of the public security agencies in the affected areas may be regulated by law in accordance with disaster response needs.

Sectors and units, such as public security, transport, railway, civil aviation, should ensure that transport routes are accessible and that relief personnel, material, equipment and persons affected are given priority, and, where necessary, measures such as the opening of specialized corridors, transport control, etc. Roads, bridges, ferry hijacking risk relief vehicles are exempted from the movement of vehicles according to the relevant provisions of the State and the province.

Article 21 Disaster Reduction Commissions and the civil affairs sector should be able to collect, analyse, renew and report information on disaster situations in a timely manner, in accordance with emergency scenarios, without delay, false reporting, concealment, omission.

The civilian sector in the affected areas should report immediately to the Government of the people at the grass-roots level and to the Government's civil affairs. Natural disasters have caused significant casualties, loss of property, and the civilian sector in the affected areas can be reported more.

Article 22 Governments of more people at the district level or the Committee on Disaster Reduction should establish a system for the publication of information on natural disasters, in a timely manner, warning of the risk of natural disasters, government responses, public preventive measures, relief efforts, loss of natural disasters.

Prior to the stabilization of the disaster, the civilian sector in the affected areas should report on a daily basis on the deaths and injuries of persons caused by natural disasters, losses of property and natural disasters, and, after the stabilization of the disaster, the Disaster Reduction Committee should organize assessments of the loss of natural disasters, experts, technical personnel, and approve its work.

Chapter IV Post-disaster assistance

Article 23 Governments of affected areas should develop post-disaster relief, reconstruction planning and plans, organize funding, material, technology, human and other resources, and carry out post-disaster recovery.

The development of post-disaster assistance, recovery planning and plans should be based on local economic and social development, integrated urban and rural infrastructure, public service facilities, accessibility facilities and rural and urban housing construction, with a reasonable determination of scale and cycles.

Article 24 Governments of affected areas should take appropriate means of resettlement to properly accommodate the victims. There is a difficulty in arranging temporary accommodations, which can concentrate on affected persons as temporary accommodation points, such as tents, tents or borrowers, sports clubs. In the light of the limitations on physical landscapes, it is not appropriate to establish temporary accommodation points, which can be easily concentrated.

Article 25 Governments and the relevant sectors of the affected areas should strengthen the management of affected areas and settlements, organize the rehabilitation of public facilities, restore production, living and work order, and rehabilitate firefighting, sanitation and affected persons.

The Village (HL), the Enterprise Unit should assist the Government in disaster relief and organize the productive self-saving, mutual assistance and reconstruction of their homes in this area.

Article 26 Governments of affected areas should provide relief and housing rehabilitation assistance to persons affected by the collapse of their homes or severe damage, free of housing, living sources, unsaving-capacity-free-saving-capacity-affected persons, and provide basic living assistance to those affected by the hardship of living in the winter order and in the spring of food, clothing, heating, medical care, etc.

Article 27 Governments of the affected areas should develop preferential policies for the rehabilitation of homes of the population, organize rehabilitation or reconstruction of homes damaged by the floods, and give priority to measures such as rural-risk housing rehabilitation, pro-poor relocation, avoidance of risk relocation, support for oral aid construction, gang help.

Sectors such as urban and rural planning, construction and land resources should provide the necessary technical support for the reconstruction of homes. Relevant procedures are required for re-establishment, which should be streamlined and accessible to the public and be processed in a timely manner by law.

Article twenty-eighth settlements in affected areas, housing reconstruction, new construction project selection sites should be in line with disaster risk reduction requirements, avoiding natural disasters such as floods, landslides, landslides and landslides, cements and natural hazards, or storage points, communicable diseases, natural communicable diseases, or under-aged land and forest land.

Article 29 explores the establishment of natural disaster insurance systems, such as major disaster insurance, rural housing insurance, and encourages and direct natural disasters to become voluntary insecure by rural residents of vulnerable areas. Areas in which conditions exist could be combined with local financial conditions, the level of income of the population and the existing disaster risk reduction policies, with appropriate insurance benefits from the people's Government.

People's governments in affected areas should integrate resources to enable effective access to natural disasters and other social assistance, social security systems, and provide, in a timely manner, minimum living guarantees for eligible persons and other social assistance.

Chapter V

Article 33 The Government of the people at the district level should integrate natural disaster relief efforts into national economic and social development planning, include provisions for natural disaster relief and natural disasters in the current financial budget, and establish financial, material security mechanisms adapted to natural resource requirements, economic and social development levels.

The Government's finance, the civil affairs sector, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province, is responsible for the allocation, disbursement, issuance and supervision of natural disaster relief funds, ensuring the security, transparency and efficiency of funds. The Government's Civil Affairs Department for the above-ranking population is responsible for the procurement, transfer, distribution, recovery and use of natural disasters.

Article 31

(i) Emergency relocation of persons affected;

(ii) The basic living assistance of affected persons, such as food, drinking water, clothing and safe shelter;

(iii) Medical assistance for victims;

(iv) Repatriation of relatives of victims of disasters;

(v) Rehabilitation of public service facilities, such as education, health care, in affected areas;

(vi) Rebuilding for the rehabilitation of homes destroyed by floods;

(vii) Procurement, storage and transport of natural disasters;

(viii) Other purposes provided for in laws, regulations and regulations.

The civil affairs, the financial sector of the people at the district level should be dedicated to natural disaster relief, exclusive funds (contents) and should not be crowded, retained, diverted and self-exploited.

Article 32 Civil affairs, the financial sector, in the affected areas, should regulate the issuance and procurement of relief payments. In the form of cash assistance, socialization should be made through financial institutions, in addition to emergency relief assistance, and in the form of physical assistance, the procurement of relief supplies in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Government's procurement, and the timely issuance of timely payments.

The sectors of civil affairs, finance, etc. and relevant social organizations in the affected areas should, through the press, radio, television, the Internet, offer to the community the source, quantity and use of natural disasters (donations) which are publicly accepted.

The National Commission for Villages (HL) in the affected areas should publish the number and use of the relief targets and their recipients (donor) and establish a bank file.

Article 33 Civil affairs, the financial sector, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province, local financial growth and the actual needs of disaster relief, are reasonably formulated and adjusted in due course for the current natural disaster recovery project and the criteria for the calculation of the benefits.

The identification procedures and procedures for the relief of persons such as disaster response, damage to housing benefits, winter life assistance will be established by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Provincial People's Government in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations, regulations and regulations.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

Article 34 acts that violate the provisions of this approach are regulated by law, legislation and regulations.

Article XV Staff of the executive organs of the State, in violation of this approach, has one of the following acts, to be disposed of by an organ that is exempted or by an inspectorate:

(i) To reject or delay the implementation of emergency relief decisions, orders;

(ii) Procurement and supply of relief supplies in violation of governmental procurement and tendering procedures;

(iii) Develop or disperse information on natural disasters;

(iv) The distribution and use of disaster relief funds in accordance with the exclusive principles of paragraph (a);

(v) The issuance of relief payments is not open and timely;

(vi) Other acts of abuse of authority, negligence and in favour of private fraud.

Article 36-related units and individuals violate the provisions of this approach, with one of the following cases being disposed of by the relevant authorities for the direct responsible and other persons directly responsible:

(i) In violation of the provisions that prevent disaster risk reduction facilities from being incompatible with the quality of the work, affecting disaster risk reduction;

(ii) No disaster prevention and assistance measures, inappropriate responses to emergencies, causing significant losses or resulting in secondary, derivatives;

(iii) Failure to issue early warning of natural disasters in a timely manner and to take appropriate early warning measures leading to serious disaster losses;

(iv) Other violations under this approach.

Chapter VII

Article 37 of this approach is implemented effective 1 March 2016.