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Sichuan Provincial Emergency Response

Original Language Title: 四川省突发事件应对办法

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Responses to emergencies in Sichuan Province

(Summit No. 103 of the Government of the Sichuan Province on 1 April 2012 to consider the publication of the Government Order No. 257 of 23 May 2012 on 1 August 2012.

Chapter I General

Article 1 establishes this approach in the light of the laws and regulations such as the People's Republic of China's Emergency Response Act, in order to regulate the response of sudden-onset events and to enhance the capacity to dispose of sudden-onset events and effectively respond to all types of incidents.

Article II applies to response activities such as preventive and emergency preparedness, monitoring and early warning, emergency disposal and rescue, post-disaster recovery and reconstruction in the administrative regions of the province.

Article 3 responds to sudden-onset events to prevent, synchronize prevention and response, introduces a unified leadership, integrated coordination, classification management, sub-ordination, and management of emergency management systems that are the primary responsibility.

Article IV is responsible for the Government's response to emergencies in the present administration. In response to sudden events, the administrative division of labour under the unity of authority has been established. With regard to more than two administrative regions, the Government of the people at the highest level in the relevant administrative region is responsible or is jointly responsible for the people's governments at the level of the relevant administrative regions.

In accordance with the laws, regulations, regulations and emergency scenarios at the district level, the local people's Government and its relevant departments are guided, coordinated by the lower-level people's Government and its relevant departments, dispatched agencies to respond to emergencies.

The Government of the commune (communes) and the Office of the Street Office are mandated by law to respond to emergencies such as the information report on incidents in the current administrative region, the first disposition.

Article 5

More than 6 local people's governments should prepare planning for emergency response systems and include planning for economic and social development for their nationals.

The communes (communes) Government, street offices have developed implementation plans based on the planning of the communes.

Article 7. The local people's Government and its relevant authorities should establish an expert pool for responding to emergencies, in accordance with the need to establish an expert advisory system for sound government decision-making experts.

Article 8. Governments of the local population at the district level should establish mechanisms for the soundness of emergency response to local forces, relevant units in the administrative region and the neighbouring people's Government, to establish a regular chamber of commerce and to enhance the inter-active and rapid response capacity.

Information on sudden public incidents should be issued in a timely, accurate, objective and comprehensive manner. The first time of the incident was to issue a brief message to society, followed by preliminary verification, government response and public preventive measures, and follow-up work on the basis of the circumstances of the incident.

The form of the publication of information includes, inter alia, copies of press, organizational coverage, interviews with journalists and press conferences.

Article 10. The Government of the local population at the district level has established mechanisms to respond to sudden events, raise public safety awareness and social responsibility of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, enhance prevention, avoidance, self-saving, mutual resilience and play the role of citizens, legal persons and other organizations in responding to emergencies.

Citizens, legal persons and other organizations are obliged to participate in the response to sudden incidents.

Article 11

The units and individuals of the local population at the district level who have made a prominent contribution in emergency response should be recognized or rewarded in accordance with the State's provisions, and those killed and injured in emergency relief efforts in the event of a sudden incident are entitled to the law.

Chapter II

The Government of the local population at the district level and its relevant authorities should develop contingency scenarios based on the realities of the region and the sector.

The communes (communes), street offices, village (residents) and business units should develop contingency scenarios based on actual circumstances and the unit.

The hosts of mass events, such as cereals, exhibitions, horticulture, sports events and large religious activities should develop safety and security emergencies.

Article 14 Governments of the local population at the district level should establish a contingency reserve system for emergencies.

The Government's overall response announcements are presented at the highest level to the Government of the People's Government, and the sectoral emergency pre-representation is presented to the Government. The Government of the commune (communes) and the Emergency Preparedness of the Street Office are reported to the Government.

The Ministry of the People's Council's Emergency Profiles (Central) People's Government, Street Office.

The Government of the People's Defender of Business Unit Emergency Preparedness.

Large-scale rallies, celebrities, emergency pre-releasing events such as mass events and large religious events organized local government administrative authorities for more than district levels.

Article 15. The Government of the local population at the district level should strengthen the management of the implementation of the emergency advance case. The pre-developing units should be amended in a timely manner on the basis of developments and changes in circumstances.

Article 16 provides for the development, modification and adaptation of rural and urban planning at the district level, in accordance with the population situation, the size of cities (communes), the geographic environment, the hazards and characteristics of sudden events, the integrated arrangement of the infrastructure required for emergency response, the reasonable determination of emergency shelters, the establishment of the necessary basic living facilities and the social announcement.

The owner of emergency shelters or the management of users should strengthen their management and ensure their normal use.

Article 17 Governments of the population at the district level should investigate, register, risk assessment, establish information databases, monitor in due course, and provide security precautions to the relevant units in the present administration.

The provincial and municipal (state) people's governments should make it possible for the current administrative region to trigger a particularly significant and dangerous source of sudden events, to investigate, register, risk assessment, to establish information databases, to organize inspections in due course, to strengthen monitoring and to impose security precautions on the units concerned.

In accordance with the State's provisions, the Government of the local population has registered the hazardous sources and dangerous regions under this scheme, which should be made public in a timely manner.

Article 18 Governments and their relevant departments, communes (communes), street offices, village (habiliation) committees and business units should conduct mediation in accordance with the relevant provisions to prevent possible social security incidents.

Article 19

Article 20 Schools, hospitals, vehicle stations, ports, terminals, airports, sports houses, museums, cultural occupies, libraries, theatres, dances, chambers, hotels, parks, tourism zones, financial securities transaction sites, Internet access services, public places such as religious venues, and operation units such as long-range passenger transport, urban public transport, urban orbital traffic, etc., should be established for security corridors, transport services, and early warning systems, as well as for the establishment of emergency relief systems.

Article 21 Government of the local population at the district level has established a comprehensive emergency response force based on the public security and the Government's dedicated firefighting force, with the establishment of a professional emergency response force based on the Forces armées de l'homme, the rescue of mines and health-care services.

The communes (communes), street offices, village councils and business units should establish a dedicated or part-time emergency response based on the actual situation.

More than the local people's governments at the district level and their relevant sectors should register and strengthen their guidance on the response.

The Government of the local population at the district level and its relevant departments should strengthen the capacity-building of emergency volunteers to guide and coordinate emergency voluntary services.

The management of emergency volunteers is governed by the relevant provisions.

Article 23. The local people's governments and their sectors, the communes (communes), the street offices, the village (community) committees and social missions.

The media should refrain from paying public information on sudden events to prevent and respond to emergencies, to rescue and mutual knowledge.

Article 24 should incorporate emergency knowledge education into the teaching content at all levels, provide emergency knowledge education for students, develop public safety awareness of students and build resilience.

The communes (communes), street offices and village councils should conduct knowledge awareness-raising training in this administrative area, in response to emergencies, organize regular emergency response exercises and enhance public awareness and capacity to respond to emergencies.

Article 25 Governments of the local population at the district level and their relevant departments should organize, on an annual basis, less than one integrated emergency response exercise or a dedicated emergency response exercise, and, where necessary, organize cross-regional, cross-sectoral emergency response exercises to enhance rapid response and overall collaborative disposal capacity.

Other units that have developed pre-emptive emergencies should conduct regular integrated emergency response exercises, tailored to actual practice.

Article 26 Government of the local population at the district level has been established by law to meet all types of emergencies.

Article 27, in accordance with the principles of integrated planning, divisional responsibility, harmonization, resource-sharing, the provincial, municipal (State) people's governments and the sudden-onset events are easily accessible, the state-level population governments in high-relead areas have established emergency material security systems and information banks to improve the regulation, production, storage, redeployment and emergency delivery systems of emergency supplies.

The Government of the province and its relevant departments should strengthen and secure the reserves of special emergency material, ethnic minorities and remote mountainous emergencies, and establish and improve coordination mechanisms for emergency supplies with other provinces, self-government zones and municipalities.

Promotion of basic self-saving materials and essentials of life for village (resident) committees, business units and personal reserves.

Article 28 should organize, monitor communications operators to strengthen emergency communications security systems and improve related equipment facilities.

Article 29 encourages citizens, legal persons and other organizations to provide material, financial, technical support and donations for emergency response.

The public service organizations, such as the Red Cross, the philanthropic philanthropic associations, have publicly raised the necessary material, funds and technical support to society, in accordance with the law, to receive sudden incidents and to strengthen advocacy and to rationalize the allocation of donations and funds.

The donation units should make available to society the source, quantity, management, distribution and use of the donation, and receive audits and oversight in the relevant sectors.

More than 30 local people's governments should encourage units and citizens to participate in insurance and provide the necessary support for the purchase of personal accident injury insurance by emergency relief personnel. Insurance companies are encouraged to increase product and service innovation and provide insurance services for emergency response. Explore the establishment of a major disaster insurance system.

Article 31 encourages and supports the conduct of emergency response studies by higher institutions, scientific colleges and other units, emergency management courses and the development of professional talents. Relevant agencies are encouraged to study the development of new technologies, new equipment, new tools and new approaches for responding to emergencies.

The Government encourages the relevant units to strengthen external communication cooperation to learn, promote knowledge, technology and methodologies for advanced emergency management.

Chapter III Monitoring and early warning

In accordance with the harmonized technical standards and format requirements, the local population and the provincial authorities should build emergency command platforms and basic databases to ensure interconnectivity and resource sharing.

More than 33 local people's governments should establish information-gathering and reporting systems, consisting of the people's governments at all levels of the present administration and their relevant departments, professional agencies, monitoring networks, 24 hours of compliance, enhanced monitoring, and the establishment of information collection, analysis, delivery, reporting systems for emergencies.

More than the local people's governments and their relevant sectors should make public information available to society on the channels and means of communication, and collect information on sudden incidents through multiple ways.

The PAPU should establish an information rapporteur system in units such as institutions, business units, schools, social groups, village (residents).

Citizens, legal persons and other organizations that have been informed of information on sudden incidents should report promptly to the local people's Government and relevant sectors.

Districts, communes and communes are responsible for the prevention of sudden-onset incidents and should be made public to society.

The establishment of a system of mass-testing systems for sound provinces, municipalities, communes, villages, communes, etc. to organize mass participation in emergency response by rural village associations, town communities, grass-roots units, and to implement emergency early warning forecasts, conceal monitoring and information forecasts and address responsibilities.

Article 34 provides information on sudden events, reports should be submitted in a timely, objective and true manner, and, in relation to State secrets, should be sent in accordance with the State's relevant confidentiality provisions.

The executive body that has been informed of the occurrence or possible occurrence of sudden-onset information should send, report information in a timely manner, and, if necessary, can report at a higher level.

More than XV local people's governments and their relevant departments should conduct a comprehensive assessment and trend analysis of potential occurrences in the current administration area on a regular basis; organize expert experts in a timely manner to analyse the hidden and early warning information of sudden events, assess the possibility of the occurrence of the incident and its possible damage and enhance early warning forecasting capacity.

In cases where natural disasters, accidents or public health events are likely to occur or are likely to increase, the Government of the more people at the district level and its relevant authorities should issue a corresponding level of warning in accordance with the law, and the Government of the people of the region should inform the local military forces and the people of the areas where they are likely to be affected or where they relate.

More than the local population at the district level should insist on proactive avoidance, prevention of circumvention, timely launch of a mechanism for preventing the avoidance of circumvention, the early evacuation of threatened masss and the avoidance of possible loss of property.

More than 37 local governments should establish mechanisms and systems for the publication of sound emergency early warning information, using a variety of means, such as radio, television, newspapers, the Internet, personal mobile communications terminals, e demonstrating, publicity vehicles, leaflets and individual notifications.

The communes (communes), street offices, village councils, business units and other organizations should assist the Government in completing the publication of early warning information.

Article 33 Eighteen Governments that have issued information on early warning of emergencies should, in accordance with developments, adjust the level of early warning, update early warning information or declare the release of warnings, terminate the early warning period and lift the measures already taken.

The Government of the last-level people has the right to be accountable to the lower-level people's Government for correction to unqualified early warning information.

Chapter IV

In the aftermath of a sudden incident, the Government of the People's Government should initiate emergency pre-response cases under the law and take emergency response measures to organize the relevant sectors to mobilize the emergency relief and social forces for pre-emptive disposal.

Responses to emergencies in general and larger emergencies are coordinated by the communes at the district level or in the districts, and emergency treatment for major and extraordinary emergencies is led by the Government of the Provincial People.

In the aftermath of the incident, the territorial units and individuals should be subject to the command and arrangement of the people that perform the unity of leadership, in coordination with the Government's emergency response measures, and actively participate in emergency relief efforts and assist in the maintenance of social order.

The Government encourages units and individuals to carry out self-saving and mutual recovery.

Article 40 concerns the Government of the people and its sectors to respond to sudden incidents and, if necessary, to the property of units and individuals.

An expropriation shall be made to the licensed unit or to the individual for emergency clearance and registration of a fascicle containing relevant information on the seized property. In emergencies, the appropriate procedures can be invoked and supplemented in a timely manner.

The use of confiscated property or the end of the emergency response process should be returned in a timely manner. Removal and loss of property shall be compensated for in-kind market prices.

Article 42 states that when a sudden incident seriously affects the normal functioning of the economy and the stability of the social order, the Government of the province can take emergency measures such as temporary price intervention to guarantee the basic life needs of the people.

Article 43 thirteenth local governments responsible for the handling of emergencies should establish emergency traffic security systems that allow for transport control on the ground and the related corridors to open specialized corridors in accordance with actual requirements. Transport tools for the delivery of sudden-onset events to respond to the material, equipment, tools, emergency relief personnel, with the approval of the Government of the Provincial People, have given priority to free movement in accordance with the relevant provisions.

Article 44 Governments of the local population responsible for the handling of emergencies should establish emergency medical care and vector control systems for emergencies, organize medical care and disease prevention specialization teams for on-site disposal, medical treatment, epidemiological surveys, transmission of sources and vector control.

More than forty-five local population governments responsible for the handling of sudden-onset events should organize scientific assessment findings by relevant departments and experts on the ground of emergencies, develop protection planning and identify protection targets, regions and areas.

Protection planning should be directed at damaged physical protection units and historical buildings with typical, representative, scientific research values and monuments, remains, damaged buildings, constructions, specific protection scope, protection requirements and protection measures.

The relevant sectors responsible for the handling of sudden-onset events should recognize, inform the victims, transport of the remains, be able to identify DNA information from those who are in distress and the disposal of the remains.

Article 47 Governments of the local population at the district level and their authorities should regulate emergency statistical procedures, standards and content, scientific, rapid and accurate statistical work.

Chapter V Post-recovery and reconstruction

Article 48 of the threat and damage to a sudden incident should cease the implementation of emergency response measures by a people's Government that performs a unified leadership role or organizes the disposal of sudden-onset events, while taking or continuing to implement the necessary measures such as vector control, epidemic or disaster control, environmental pollution elimination, advocacy and evacuation, to prevent natural disasters, accidents, public health incidents, spontaneous events or releasing social security.

The Government of the people responsible for coordinating leadership should organize, in a timely manner, statistical, verification and assessment of the damage caused by the sudden incident in accordance with the relevant provisions; investigate and analyse the causes, nature, impacts, responsibilities and problems of the sudden incident, undertake a comprehensive assessment of the response to information reports, emergency decision-making, early warning, disposal and rescue, and report to the Government and the Standing Committee.

Article 50 Governments in affected areas affected by sudden events should organize, as soon as possible, public facilities such as transportation, communications, water supply, drainage, electricity, heating, television, health, and the timely organization of the distribution and supply of relief supplies and essentials of life, as well as the rehabilitation of normal production order in affected areas as soon as possible.

Article 50 provides for persons who require transitional resettlement due to sudden incidents, to perform a unified leadership role or to organize the disposal of sudden-onset people's Governments, in accordance with local realities, to take a flexible approach to resettlement. Transitional centralization places establish basic living security facilities, medical services and fire stations, with the necessary public information dissemination facilities.

Article 52, the Government of the people affected by sudden events should strengthen the leadership of recovery and reconstruction, develop and implement a good post-harvest workplan based on local needs, based on the principles of short-term recovery and long-term development.

In accordance with the circumstances of the loss and the relevant provisions, the Government of the local population should provide financial assistance, material support, technical guidance and human support to areas and industries affected by the sudden-onset incident, taking measures such as cost relief, credit discount, financial transfers and oral support.

Article 54 Governments of people affected by sudden events and their relevant sectors should provide legal aid and other public services.

More than 55 local people's governments should coordinate the supervision of insurance companies in a timely manner with respect to insurance claims.

More than 56 local people's governments should put in place a sound management system for responding to the archives of sudden events, collecting, collating and archiving relevant information, such as the original records of the response to emergencies.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

Article 57, in violation of this approach, provides that one of the following cases is changed by a regulatory authority:

(i) No planning for the development of emergency response systems for emergencies;

(ii) Failure to develop or revise emergency preparedness cases in a timely manner;

(iii) No planning, construction, identification of emergency shelters, and social announcements;

(iv) No investigation, registration, inspection, monitoring and notice of dangerous sources, hazardous regions;

(v) The absence of an emergency response team, the organization of emergency training or the conduct of emergency response exercises;

(vi) The establishment of an emergency material security system and information base, as prescribed;

(vii) The non-transfer of units and personal property in a timely manner or the payment of compensation to the units and individuals of the seized property in accordance with the provisions;

(viii) Other relevant acts in violation of this approach.

Article 58, in violation of this approach, provides that one of the following cases is governed by the law by a competent department:

(i) Distinguished, false reports, concealment of reports, omissions of information about sudden-onset events, or briefing, dispatch, publication of false information, causing adverse consequences;

(ii) No implementation of the 24-hour response threshold;

(iii) The failure to conduct pre-emptive disposal or to dispose of undue grave consequences;

(iv) Unobedience to the unity of movement and command of the people's Government that performs the leadership;

(v) The law provides for serious acts.

Article 59, which violates this approach, provides for legal responsibility and is governed by the provisions of the law, legislation and regulations.

Chapter VII

Article sixtieth of this approach is implemented effective 1 August 2012.