Comprehensive Disaster Risk Prevention of "the Belt and Road Initiative": Important Significance, Catastrophe Risk, International Cooperation and Strategic Countermeasure

"The Belt and Road Initiative" is major decision proposed by the CPC Central Committee with comrade Xi Jinping as the core co-ordinating the domestic and international overall situations, and concerns peaceful rise of China and extension of the strategic opportunity period of modernization construction. It needs multi-faceted safeguards to successfully impel "the Belt and Road Initiative", in which disaster risk identification and its effective prevention and control are indispensable links. By integrating geogeographic and atmospheric environmental factors, countries along "the Belt and Road Initiative" belong to frequent occurrence region of major natural disasters. It restricts not only the economic and social development of relevant countries but also implementation effect of "the Belt and Road Initiative" construction, and is also related to the success or failure of Chinese enterprises going out to a certain extent. It should enhance disaster prevention and mitigation and ensure safety of major infrastructure construction related to interconnection of "the Belt and Road Initiative" by disaster identification and prevention, which is the key of successfully impelling strategy implementation and major need for guaranteeing the people's livelihood of the countries along the line. The work of disaster prevention and mitigation in the countries along the line is generally weak, and it is urgent to raise the level of disaster prevention as a whole by promoting the disaster prevention and mitigation cooperation in the "the Belt and Road Initiative" area; improve the coverage and level of disaster risk insurance; enhance construction in monitoring and early warning capability of natural disaster; strengthen structural adjustment of economy, industry and land use responding to climate change risks; establish a comprehensive disaster reduction forum of "the Belt and Road Initiative", and contain relevant content in "the Belt and Road Initiative" series of high-end forum topics.