On September 23, a report meeting on natural disaster prevention and control of Sichuan Province was held in Chengdu. The reporter learned from the meeting that up to now, more than 3,200 emergency shelters have been built in Sichuan Province, basically forming an emergency shelter system covering the province and its cities, counties, key towns and villages (communities).

　　From 2018 to the first half of this year, Sichuan has invested 15 billion yuan in natural disaster prevention and control. In terms of the construction of an emergency rescue center, the project site of the National Southwest Regional Emergency Rescue Center is in Jintang, Chengdu, with a planned land area of over 1,000 mu and a total investment of 2.58 billion yuan. At present, this center has been listed as a key project to be promoted in Sichuan in 2020, and the research report has been approved by the Ministry of Emergency Management and submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission.

　　In terms of key project construction, since 2016, the province has accelerated the construction of embankments on major rivers, flood control of small and medium-sized rivers, and prevention and control of mountain torrents; 1,250 kilometers of embankments have been built and more than 540 kilometers of small and medium-sized rivers have been improved.  During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Sichuan has invested a total of 10.1 billion yuan in special funds for the prevention and control of geological disasters at the central and provincial levels, relocated and resettled more than 55,000 threatened farmer households, with 200,000 persons, deployed and carried out 1,346 geological disaster control projects to eliminate 2,703 risks. The implementation of the third phase of the Yangtze River shelterbelt forest program, the second phase of the protection of natural forest resources, and the project to return grazing land to grassland has been accelerated, and a total of 65,000 mu of sloping farmland has been brought under comprehensive control of soil erosion this year. Sichuan took the lead in launching the construction of an automated professional monitoring and early warning system for major geological hazards hidden points; nearly 7,500 automated professional monitoring points have been established. Meanwhile, the renovation of rural dilapidated houses with four categories of key objects has been fully completed. 

　　Yi Jun, Head of the Seventh Supervision Team of China National Commission for Disaster Reduction and Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Yao Sidan, Vice Governor and Deputy Director of Sichuan Provincial Commission for Disaster Reduction, made a report.