Integrated Disaster Prevention and Reduction for Areas along the Belt and Road during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period: Global Disaster Reduction and Key Issues for Major Areas

Disaster prevention and mitigation, as the greatest common divisor of people’s interests in the construction of the Belt and Road, can not only guarantee the safety of Chinese enterprises going abroad and China’s foreign investment but also promote the sustainable development in countries and regions along the route, which is conducive to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. On the eve of China’s disaster prevention and reduction plan during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, this paper studies the key issues in integrated disaster prevention and reduction for major areas along the Belt and Road. First of all, it analyzes the importance and urgency of integrated disaster prevention and mitigation for areas along the Belt and Road. Secondly, from a global perspective, it analyzes the measures for the construction and innovation of disaster prevention and reduction technical system, the key issues in the disaster risk management and the focuses of disaster prevention and reduction international cooperation mechanism along the Belt and Road. At last, from the strategic level, it analyzes systematically the major areas and key fields for research and practice of integrated disaster prevention and reduction along the Belt and Road, including research and practice on disaster prevention and reduction of Silk Road Economic Belt, research and practice on disaster prevention and reduction of Maritime Silk Road, research and practice on disaster prevention and reduction in the construction of major protects, research and practice on disaster prevention and reduction in the construction of the six economic corridors, research and practice on the construction of disaster prevention and reduction information platform and research and practice on the building of cross-border and cross-regional rescue capability.