Lanzhou Municipal Emergency Management Bureau

 The Lanzhou Municipal Emergency Management Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the Municipal Emergency Bureau) is a municipal government department operating at the deputy director-general level. The Municipal Emergency Bureau implements the policies, decisions, and directives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, as well as those of the provincial and municipal Party committees, concerning emergency management. In discharging its duties, it upholds and strengthens the Party's centralised and unified leadership over emergency management. Its principal responsibilities are as follows:

1. Oversee emergency management operations, directing and organising citywide responses to work safety incidents, natural disasters, and other emergencies, alongside comprehensive disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief efforts. Exercise comprehensive supervision over work safety and oversee safety management within industrial, mining, commercial, and trade sectors.

2. Organise the formulation of citywide emergency response system development plans, work safety strategies, and comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation frameworks. Draft relevant local regulations and municipal government rules, implementing national standards and protocols.

3. Guide the development of emergency response plans, establish and refine a tiered response system for accidents, disasters, and natural calamities. Organise the formulation of the city's overall emergency response plan and specialised plans for work safety and natural disasters. Coordinate the integration of emergency response plans, organise drills, and promote the construction of emergency shelters.

4. Lead the establishment of a unified emergency management information system, oversee the planning and deployment of information transmission channels, establish monitoring, early warning, and disaster reporting mechanisms, enhance natural disaster information acquisition and sharing systems, and uniformly release disaster information in accordance with the law.

5. Coordinate emergency rescue operations for work safety incidents and natural disasters. Undertake citywide disaster command and coordination, conduct comprehensive assessments of incident developments and propose response recommendations. Assist designated officials from the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government in organising disaster emergency response.

6. Unify the coordination and command of all emergency specialist teams. Establish emergency coordination and linkage mechanisms, and advance command platform integration. Liaise with the People's Liberation Army and Armed Police Forces stationed in Lanzhou regarding their participation in emergency rescue operations.

7. Exercises dual management responsibilities over the city's comprehensive fire and rescue teams and forest firefighting units in accordance with regulations, while supervising municipal-level mine rescue and hazardous chemical rescue teams. Guides the development of social emergency rescue capabilities across the city.

8. Organises and implements citywide fire supervision, fire prevention, and firefighting operations.

9. Coordinate prevention and control efforts for forest and grassland fires, floods and droughts, earthquakes, and geological hazards. Oversee comprehensive monitoring and early warning systems for natural disasters, and guide integrated risk assessments for natural disasters.

10. Coordinate disaster relief operations, oversee disaster verification, loss assessment, and charitable donations, manage and allocate relief funds and supplies, and supervise their utilisation.

11. Exercise comprehensive municipal oversight of work safety in accordance with the law, guiding, coordinating, and inspecting work safety efforts of relevant municipal departments and district/county governments. Organise work safety inspections and assessments. Coordinate and supervise municipal work safety administrative enforcement.

12. Supervise and inspect, in accordance with the principles of hierarchical and territorial jurisdiction, the implementation of work safety laws and regulations by industrial, mining, commercial, and trade production and operation units. Oversee their work safety conditions and the management of relevant equipment (excluding special equipment), materials, and labour protective equipment. Supervise and manage work safety in municipal enterprises within the industrial, mining, commercial, and trade sectors. Organise, guide, and supervise the implementation of the work safety access system in accordance with the law. Oversee comprehensive work safety supervision of hazardous chemicals and the supervision of work safety in fireworks and firecrackers. Assume comprehensive supervisory responsibilities for coal mine work safety.

13. Organise and guide the investigation and handling of production safety accidents and fire safety incidents in accordance with the law, supervising the implementation of accident investigations and accountability measures. Organise the investigation and assessment of natural disaster-related emergencies.

14. Conduct exchanges and cooperation in emergency management, organising participation in cross-regional rescue operations for emergencies such as work safety incidents and natural disasters.

15. Formulate and implement plans for emergency material reserves and rescue equipment. Collaborate with the Municipal Grain and Material Reserve Bureau and other departments to establish and improve emergency material information platforms and allocation systems, ensuring unified coordination during disaster relief operations.

16. Oversee publicity, education, and training in emergency management and production safety. Organise and guide scientific research, technological application, and informatisation development in emergency management and production safety.

17. Execute other tasks assigned by the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, and Provincial Emergency Management Department.

18. Functional Transformation. Strengthen, optimise, and coordinate citywide emergency management capacity building. Establish a unified, authoritative, and efficient emergency capability system under centralised leadership, integrating responsibilities with authority. Advance the formation of a municipal emergency management system with Chinese characteristics: featuring unified command, specialised and generalised capabilities, responsive operations, vertical coordination, and peacetime-wartime integration. Firstly, adhere to prevention as the primary focus, integrating prevention, mitigation and rescue. Unify routine disaster reduction with emergency relief efforts, striving to shift emphasis from post-disaster assistance to pre-disaster prevention, from single-disaster response to comprehensive disaster reduction, and from reducing disaster losses to mitigating disaster risks. Enhance the city's emergency management standards and disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capabilities to prevent and resolve major safety risks. Secondly, we shall uphold a people-centred approach, prioritising the safety of citizens' lives, ensuring the basic livelihood of disaster-affected populations, strengthening emergency drill exercises, enhancing public awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation, and improving public knowledge dissemination alongside self-rescue and mutual-aid skills to effectively reduce casualties and property losses. Thirdly, we shall establish a safety-oriented development philosophy, prioritising life above all and safety foremost, refining work safety responsibilities, and resolutely curbing major and critical safety accidents. Fourthly, we shall deepen the advancement of administrative streamlining and power delegation.

19. Division of Responsibilities.

(1) Division of responsibilities with the Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources, Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, Municipal Forestry Bureau, and other departments regarding natural disaster prevention and relief.

The Municipal Emergency Management Bureau is responsible for organising the formulation of the city's overall emergency response plan and specialised plans for work safety and natural disasters, coordinating the integration of emergency response plans, and organising plan drills. In accordance with the principle of graded responsibility, it guides emergency rescue operations for natural disasters; organises and coordinates disaster emergency rescue work, and makes recommendations or decisions within its authority; undertakes command and coordination of the city's disaster response, and assists the responsible officials designated by the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government in organising disaster emergency response. It organises the formulation of comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation plans, guiding and coordinating relevant departments in the prevention and control of forest and grassland fires, floods and droughts, earthquakes, and geological disasters. In conjunction with the Natural Resources Bureau, Water Affairs Bureau, Meteorological Bureau, Municipal Forestry Bureau, Municipal Seismological Bureau, and other relevant departments, it establishes a unified emergency management information platform, implements monitoring, early warning, and disaster reporting systems, improves mechanisms for acquiring and sharing natural disaster information resources, and uniformly releases disaster information in accordance with the law. Conduct integrated monitoring and early warning for multiple disaster types and disaster chains, and guide comprehensive natural disaster risk assessments. Oversee forest and grassland fire monitoring and early warning, issuing forest and grassland fire risk and fire incident information.

The Municipal Natural Resources Bureau shall implement relevant requirements of the comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation plan, organise the formulation of geological hazard prevention plans and protection standards, and guide their implementation. It shall organise, guide, coordinate, and supervise geological hazard investigations, evaluations, and the census, detailed surveys, and inspections of potential hazards. It shall guide the implementation of community-based monitoring and prevention, professional monitoring, and forecasting and early warning activities, as well as guide the implementation of geological hazard engineering remediation work. It shall undertake technical support for geological hazard emergency rescue operations.

The Municipal Water Affairs Bureau shall implement relevant requirements of the comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation plan, organise the formulation of flood and drought disaster prevention plans and protection standards, and guide their implementation; undertake flood and drought monitoring and early warning; organise the formulation of city-wide flood defence and drought mitigation dispatch plans and emergency water allocation schemes, submit them for approval according to procedures, and organise their implementation; provide technical support for flood emergency rescue operations; and undertake the dispatch of key water engineering projects during flood and waterlogging disaster prevention periods.

The Municipal Forestry Bureau shall implement relevant requirements of the comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation plan; organise the formulation of forest and grassland fire prevention plans and protection standards, and guide their implementation; direct the conduct of fire patrols, fire source management, and fire prevention facility construction; and organise and guide state-owned forest farms, forest areas, and grasslands in carrying out fire prevention publicity and education, monitoring and early warning, and supervision and inspection.

Where necessary, the Municipal Emergency Management Bureau may, upon request from the Municipal Natural Resources Bureau, Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, Municipal Forestry Bureau, and other relevant departments, deploy related prevention and control work in the name of the Municipal Emergency Command Organisation.

(2) Division of responsibilities with the Municipal Grain and Material Reserve Bureau regarding disaster relief material reserves.

The Municipal Emergency Management Bureau is responsible for proposing the city's disaster relief material reserve requirements and decision-making on their deployment, organising the compilation of the city's disaster relief material reserve plan, variety catalogue and standards, determining the annual procurement plan in conjunction with the Municipal Grain and Material Reserve Bureau and other departments, and issuing deployment instructions as required.

The Municipal Grain and Material Reserve Bureau shall be responsible for the collection, storage, rotation, and daily management of municipal disaster relief materials in accordance with the city-wide reserve plan, product catalogue, standards, and annual procurement plan. It shall organise the dispatch of materials in accordance with procedures upon receiving mobilisation instructions from the Municipal Emergency Management Bureau.

(3) Division of responsibilities with the Municipal Development and Reform Commission regarding coal mine safety production supervision.

The Municipal Emergency Management Bureau shall undertake comprehensive supervision and management responsibilities for coal mine safety production across the city. The Municipal Development and Reform Commission coordinates coalbed methane development, the phasing out of outdated coal production capacity, and the management and utilisation of coal mine gas.

(4) Division of responsibilities with departments bearing work safety management duties.

Departments bearing work safety supervision and management duties shall be specifically responsible for work safety supervision and management within their respective industries or sectors. The Municipal Emergency Management Bureau shall be responsible for the comprehensive supervision and management of work safety across the city, guiding, coordinating, and supervising the work safety supervision and management activities of relevant municipal departments.