Resumen de China’s Implementation of Impact and Risk-based Early Warning
Jiao Meiyan, Song Lianchun, Jiang Tong, Zhang Di, Zhai Jianqing
China is one of the countries most affected by meteorological hazards. From 1984 to 2014, on average per annum meteorological hazards caused 4 066 deaths and 192.2 billion Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY, US$ 30.5 billion) direct economic losses – 2% of the Chinese Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The annual average loss ratio (direct economic losses/annual GDP) halved from 2.08% from 1984 to 2000 to 1.03% from 2001 to 2014, thanks to improved disaster prevention and mitigation measures. That 1.03% ratio is still 8 times higher than the global average (0.14%) and 3 times higher than that of the United States of America (0.36%). In fact, China’s average loss ratio exceeds that of all the other countries as seriously affected by meteorological hazards. China Meteorological Administration (CMA) thus determined in 2009 that the country’s early warning services needed further improvement. 1 2
