The Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee held a meeting to discuss further efforts to improve disaster prevention, reduction, and relief work.

On the morning of May 18, the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee held a meeting. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to source control, system governance, consolidate the foundation of "prevention", and incorporate safety resilience requirements into national land and space planning and various construction plans. It is important to strengthen comprehensive spatial control of natural disaster risks, focus on key areas to carry out routine hidden danger inspections, further strengthen engineering governance, and continuously improve the level of inherent safety. It is important to establish a bottom-line thinking, extreme thinking, enhance the ability for rescue, strengthen monitoring and early warning, improve the mechanism for disaster response, improve the emergency command mechanism under the framework of comprehensive emergency preparedness, strengthen professional rescue forces, coordinate comprehensive rescue, transitional, resettlement, and recovery reconstruction work, and continuously improve the ability to respond to major disasters. It is essential to strengthen technological support, legal protection, enhance the effectiveness of "governance", carry out in-depth research on natural disaster foundations, coordinate the promotion of technological innovation and industrial innovation in the emergency field; adhere to governance according to law, and promote orderly emergency work on the track of the rule of law. It is necessary to continue to focus on the grassroots, strengthen the foundation, build a solid foundation for "safety", focus on enhancing the comprehensive disaster reduction capabilities at the grassroots level, proactively ensure material reserves, increase publicity and education efforts, enhance the awareness and ability of disaster prevention and mitigation of the whole population, and make the grassroots a solid fortress against disaster risks. Party committees and governments at all levels in the province should take up the political responsibility of "promoting development in one region, ensuring safety in one region," firmly establish and adhere to the correct political achievements concept, resolutely prevent tendencies toward prioritizing development over safety, prioritizing disaster relief over prevention, and firmly safeguard the bottom line of safe development.