On December 30, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Chinese Academy of Sciences held a kick-off meeting for the establishment of the National Academy of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control in Beijing, and signed an agreement to jointly build the National Academy of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and a strategic cooperation agreement. The National Academy of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control was officially launched.

The meeting pointed out that the establishment of the National Institute of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control is an objective requirement for strengthening the comprehensive response to natural disasters and fulfilling the comprehensive functions of emergency management. It is an urgent need to optimize and integrate various scientific and technological resources and promote independent innovation of emergency management technology. It is of great significance to rely on science and technology to improve the scientific, professional, intelligent, and refined level of emergency management, enhance the ability to prevent and control natural disasters, effectively protect the lives and property of the people, and maintain social stability.

The meeting emphasized that the construction and development of the National Academy of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control should reflect the advantages of joint construction, conduct in-depth research on disaster risk and prevention and control basic theories, key technologies, and advanced equipment, and build domestic first-class and internationally advanced scientific research on natural disaster prevention and control. Platform; we must insist on focusing on integration, give play to the advantages of multi-disciplinary crossover and integrated innovation, make efforts in multi-hazard coupling and comprehensive disaster reduction, and build the core and pioneering force of national natural disaster prevention scientific research; we must persist in innovation-driven and aim at the international frontier, Innovate cooperation platforms and operating mechanisms, attract talents extensively, and fully stimulate innovation and creativity; we must adhere to problem-oriented, goal-oriented, and result-oriented, and strive to solve the bottleneck problem of natural disaster prevention and control, in order to promote the improvement of China's natural disaster prevention and control capabilities, and promote the emergency management system and Capacity modernization provides strong support.

It is reported that the National Academy of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control is the first national-level comprehensive natural disaster prevention and control research institute in my country. It is mainly responsible for major natural disaster prevention and control policies, basic theories, key technologies, important equipment research, and scientific and technological achievements transformation and application demonstration. .

The institute will face the major technological needs of the country’s major natural disaster prevention and control and the frontiers of the world’s natural disaster prevention and mitigation science and technology. It will be guided by innovation-driven development and the strategy of science and technology to strengthen the country. The era's natural disaster prevention and emergency management scientific research system and technology management mechanism implement the "small core, large network" structure layout, bringing together top scientists and superior forces at home and abroad to carry out full-element, full-process, and full-chain research.