Comprehensive Disaster Prevention and Reduction Planning

In China, the comprehensive disaster prevention and reduction planning is an important part of socio-economic development planning at both the national and local levels, as well as a special plan of city master planning. Through the past years, its focus has been shifted from post-disaster rescue to pre-disaster prevention, from responding to a single disaster to targeting at multiple disasters, and from disaster damage reduction to disaster risk mitigation, in order to improve the comprehensive ability of the society to resist natural and manmade disasters. In the field of urban-rural planning, it is also called as urban safety planning.