China Meteorological Bureau： The accuracy of rainstorm warning signal has increased to 93%, and meteorological warning information can be delivered to the public in 3 to 8 minutes.

On October 29th, China Meteorological Bureau held a press conference in November 2024. At the meeting, Xiong Shaoyuan, member of the party group and deputy director of China Meteorological Bureau, introduced the main progress in the modernization of meteorological social services.

Xiong Shaoyuan, member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of China Meteorological Bureau, Zhang Aoguang Photography

In terms of ensuring safety, Xiong Shaoyuan said that China Meteorological Bureau adhered to the principle of putting people first and life first, actively integrated into the national emergency framework, and effectively built the first line of defense for meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation.

According to reports, in terms of emergency linkage mechanism with meteorological disaster warning as the guide, the progressive meteorological service mechanism has achieved national coverage, and a high-level early warning "calling" system has been established and improved. Since 2023, the cumulative number of party and government leaders at all levels and flood control has reached 580,000.

In terms of meteorological disaster risk early warning capability, the first national comprehensive risk survey of natural disasters was completed in 10 categories, and 45 meteorological disaster risk products were released daily. The accuracy of rainstorm warning signal has been improved to 93%, the early warning time of severe convective weather has reached 43 minutes, and the meteorological warning information can be delivered to the public in 3 to 8 minutes, with a coverage rate of 98.8%. In the past five years, the number of deaths caused by meteorological disasters has decreased by an average of 48.5% compared with that between 2014 and 2018, and the proportion of economic losses to GDP has decreased by an average of 0.15%.

In terms of weather modification ability, in the past five years, 5,547 aircraft operations and more than 227,000 ground operations have been organized, with an average annual increase of over 38 billion tons of precipitation, an area affected by artificial precipitation (snow) reaching 5 million square kilometers, and an area protected by artificial hail suppression reaching 600,000 square kilometers.

In terms of high-quality and efficient development, Xiong Shaoyuan said that China Meteorological Bureau adheres to the "big service concept" and meteorological services cover more than 70 industries in the national economy. Focusing on food security, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued 12 types of agro-meteorological disaster risk warnings. This year, according to the dry-hot wind warning, various localities adopted measures such as "one spray and three defenses" to help winter wheat reduce disasters and increase income by about 3 billion Jin. Focusing on ensuring smooth traffic, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Transport jointly created a new mode of "one road, three parties" linkage control. The number of traffic accidents caused by bad weather decreased by 50% year-on-year and the operational efficiency increased by 42%. Focusing on helping the development of new quality productivity, 59 meteorological high-value data products were listed on the data exchange. Explore the "meteorology × finance" service, initially build the meteorological service for risk reduction before the disaster, release the first batch of 69 financial meteorological indexes, and establish the financial meteorological index service platform.

(Original title: China Meteorological Bureau: The accuracy of rainstorm warning signal has increased to 93%, and meteorological warning information can be delivered to the public in 3 to 8 minutes)

(Source: Red Star News Author: Hu Yiwen Editor: Guo Manru)