BEIJING: China’s top forest and grassland fire prevention authority has recently issued a notice to bolster the construction of a fire warning and monitoring system, as the country enters the seasons of autumn and winter, which are high-risk periods for wildfires.
The notice was released by the National Forest and Grassland Fire Prevention and Control Command at the end of last month, according to a news release from the Ministry of Emergency Management on Tuesday.
The release said that the notice serves as a directive document for enhancing the forest and grassland fire warning and monitoring systems in the current and future periods.
According to the notice published on the command’s official website, the system will rely on the existing national fire risk prediction and forecasting system, which is supported by the emergency management, forestry, grassland and meteorological departments.
It aims to integrate data collection, improve joint consultation and assessment, and promptly issue various forecasts and warnings.
The notice outlines 13 specific tasks and measures from the perspectives of the warning and monitoring systems, including real-time data sharing, dynamic and precise consultation and assessment and rapid response mechanisms.
Additionally, it provides a step-by-step implementation plan and a timeline for specific tasks, noting that over the next five years, a national warning and monitoring system on forest and grassland fires will be established at an early stage.
Simultaneously, a national forecast system on forest fire risk will be developed. Routine grassland fire risk forecasting is required to be initiated, and the notice pointed out that this task has been completed this year.
Moreover, comprehensive monitoring stations for forest and grassland fire risk factors will be set up in key areas to establish a preliminary fire risk sensing network, according to the notice. The fire risk consultation mechanism is also required to be optimized to enhance rolling assessments and short-term warning capabilities. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
