Guizhou convenes meeting on remote sensing and risk warning system

The Guizhou Department of Natural Resources convened a meeting on Sept 12 to review the implementation of comprehensive remote sensing and early risk warning systems, with a focus on two high-risk slopes in the province.

The meeting aimed to evaluate current progress and deploy further critical measures. Zhou Hongwen, director of the Guizhou Department of Natural Resources, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.

It was pointed out at the conference that Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, Junlian county, Sichuan province, and Dafang county, Guizhou province – all within the Wumeng Mountain area – share relatively similar geological conditions and disaster-prone backgrounds.

In less than a year and a half, three severe landslides occurred successively in these three places. These disasters posed a severe threat to people's lives and property, and significantly harmed local economic and social development.

The natural resource planning systems at all levels across the province must draw profound lessons, strengthen risk awareness and bottom-line thinking, implement the principle of putting people and lives first, strictly fulfill disaster prevention responsibilities and make every effort to safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.

There are five severely deformed areas on the hazardous slope in Yangliu community under the jurisdiction of Dafang county, directly endangering 35 households (137 people). The conference required relevant parties in Dafang county to immediately relocate and resettle the affected people and complete the construction of automated monitoring stations within one week.

Additionally, the county must immediately commission qualified institutions to conduct detailed surveys to determine the causation, enhance coordination, and promptly report the implementation measures to the Guizhou Provincial People's Government and the Guizhou Department of Natural Resources.