China’s national comprehensive fire rescue team rescued and evacuated more than 660,000 people in distress a year.

　　China news agency, Beijing, November 6 (Huang Yuqin) Shen Zhanli, spokesman of the Emergency Management Department of China, revealed in Beijing on the 6th that since the first anniversary of the establishment of the national comprehensive fire rescue team, more than 1.2 million emergency rescue missions have been completed, and more than 660,000 people in distress have been rescued and evacuated.

　　On November 6th, China the State Council Press Office held a press conference. Shen Zhanli, spokesperson of the Emergency Management Department and director of the news and propaganda department, introduced the construction and development of the first anniversary of the establishment of the national comprehensive fire rescue team and answered questions from reporters. China News Service reporter Yang Kejia photo

　　China the State Council Press Office held a press conference that morning, and Shen Zhanli introduced to the media the relevant situation since the first anniversary of the establishment of the national comprehensive fire rescue team.

　　In introducing the improvement of the team’s ability to perform their duties, Shen Zhanli said that the team’s transformation and upgrading should be promoted from six aspects: rescue concept, function, ability, equipment, methods and mechanism. Twenty-seven earthquake, mountain, water and aircrew professional rescue teams and six cross-border forest and grassland fire fighting teams were set up in different regions of the country, and the Chinese rescue team was set up and carried out the first cross-border rescue. Recently, the Chinese rescue team and the China International Rescue Team successfully passed the evaluation and retest of the United Nations International Heavy Rescue Team, and China became the first country in Asia to have two international heavy rescue teams certified by the United Nations.

　　Shen Zhanli also said that in the past year, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has completed more than 1.2 million emergency rescue tasks and rescued and evacuated more than 660,000 people in distress. We successfully dealt with serious disasters such as floods in Shouguang, Shandong Province, mudslides in Malipo, Yunnan Province, four dammed lakes in Jinsha River and Yarlung Zangbo River, forest fire in Qinyuan, Shanxi Province, explosion in Xiangshui Chemical Plant in Jiangsu Province, earthquake with magnitude of 6.0 in Changning, Sichuan Province, landslide in Shuicheng, Guizhou Province, and super typhoon Likima. (End)