Emergency Response Principles of Typhoon Disaster

Since 2003, China has made extraordinary achievements in emergency management, and successfully dealt with a large number of unexpected events, especially meteorological disasters. At the same time, a complete system of emergency laws, regulations and plans are gradually established. Through reviewing those official documents, this paper finds out four important principles that typhoon disaster emergency responses follows: warning level based, disaster consequences and types oriented, unified leadership and departmental response, decentralized response and localized management.