For the past 10 years China's disaster mitigation capabilities, modern comprehensive rescue capabilities, and major security risk prevention capabilities have been continuously enhanced and emergency management in the new era has achieved remarkable results. Meanwhile, research on disaster prevention and mitigation has provided strong scientific and technological support for the sustainable development of countries along the "Belt and Road", and the big data platform for disasters has played an important role in disaster prevention and mitigation. Given the current situation and trend of the frequent and high occurrence of natural disasters in China, there are still challenges in natural disaster prevention and mitigation in terms of background data, mechanism understanding, and risk prediction. In the future we should focus on strengthening basic research of natural disasters, establishing monitoring and early warning systems, construction of a resilient society, science education, and natural disaster insurance, so as to better promote sustainable socio-economic development and create a livable earth and build a community of human destiny in harmony with nature.

natural disasters  /  disaster risk  /  emergency management  /  disaster prevention and mitigation  /  climate change