This paper studies the current state of the emergency shelters in China from a macro perspective, by collecting data of 338 emergency shelters in cities at or above the prefectural level (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), and establishing a database of emergency shelters in China, focusing on the existing problems of the emergency shelters in China through the qualitative description and the statistics of the indicators in the database, with the OLS regression method to explore the significant influencing factors. Through the descriptive statistics, it is found that there are many problems in the emergency shelters in China:"over focus on construction, with little publicity", "the big volume, but low standard", "the large difference, the uneven distribution", and "focusing on target, slighting actual effect". Through the regression analysis, it is found that from the current state of the emergency shelters in China, many things should be improved, mainly from the two indicators of "the urban economic level" and "the policy strictness", so as to respond to the Urban Safety concept and the National Safety concept.

emergency shelter  /  urban security  /  disaster prevention and reduction