In a decisive response to the escalating global climate crisis, China has announced a comprehensive national strategy to significantly bolster its resilience against increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather phenomena. The initiative comes as scientific data reveals a troubling trend of more destructive and complex disaster chains triggered by climatic changes.
According to the China Meteorological Administration, research conducted since 2011 demonstrates a substantial expansion of regions receiving between 400-800 mm of annual precipitation. Concurrently, extreme rainfall events are generating longer-lasting and more hazardous cascading effects across vulnerable areas.
Despite maintaining an impressive meteorological infrastructure—including nine Fengyun satellites, 842 weather radars, and more than 90,000 ground stations achieving an 83 percent severe weather detection rate—the administration acknowledges persistent challenges in predicting extreme events within complex terrain and unusual atmospheric conditions.
The enhanced strategy will focus on critical upgrades to monitoring, forecasting, and early-warning systems, particularly in flash flood zones, geologically unstable regions, and major urban flood control districts. Additionally, the plan emphasizes developing urban environments with improved water absorption, retention, and purification capabilities through strategic infrastructure investment, dedicated drainage pathways, and elevated flood resilience standards for buildings.