These Rules are formulated in order to prevent the calamities of flood and typhoon, protect people’s life and the property of the state, collectives and individuals, and promptly organize the salvage and disaster relief. The Text consists of 39 Articles divided into 7 Chapters: General provisions; Salvage and Disaster Relief Organizations and Their Duties; Flood Monitoring and Precautionary Warning; Salvage and Disaster Relief; Maritime Salvage; Legal Liability; Supplementary Provisions. The control of flood, wind and the salvage and disaster relief shall be the responsibility of chief executive officers. The office of the Municipal Headquarters of Flood, Drought and Wind (hereinafter referred to as the municipal office of three controls) shall be the working organization of the municipal headquarters of three controls. Article 5 provides for the primary duties of this office, including: to formulate the flood control plan and check the flood control dispatching plan of key flood control works; to plan, supervise and manage the use of the emergency rescue funds and materials; to issue the precautionary warning signals for flood drainage; to liaise and coordinate the salvage and disaster relief of various departments and to work out the reports on dangerous situations, disasters as well as on salvage and disaster relief; etc. The Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory shall be responsible for monitoring and precautionary warning of typhoon, rainstorm. The Shenzhen Center for Maritime Salvage shall be responsible for maritime salvage in the sea areas close to the Shenzhen City.
Chine · 1994-06-04