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This paper introduced the principle, institutional framework, and legal construction of Chinese disaster management system, and operating mechanisms of disaster management departments in pre-disaster, response and post-disaster phases were also demonstrated. Although China has basically built the disaster management system, formed national emergency plan system, and gained achievements in some aspects, the disasters management system is still a segmental model and is not an integrated management system. This article analyzes problems of Chinese disaster management system, and puts forward some suggestions for improving and optimizing this system. This can make Chinese disaster management system better respond and handle to disasters risk, and reduce the social and economic losses of disasters caused.
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This work was supported by the Research Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China (40930637) and the Seismological Professional Research Project (200808079).
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Lixin, Y., Lingling, G., Dong, Z. et al. An analysis on disasters management system in China. Nat Hazards 60, 295–309 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-0011-6
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