The Ministry of Emergency Management held a press conference on the 12th. Chen Sheng, Director of the Disaster Relief and Material Support Department of the Ministry of Emergency Management, introduced at the meeting that in recent years, the Ministry of Emergency Management has vigorously promoted the construction of a national disaster information officer team. At present, a five-level disaster information officer team covering the whole country at the province, city, county, township, and village levels has been completed, with more than 1 million members. In response to shortcomings such as frequent personnel turnover and the urgent need to improve capabilities, the Ministry of Emergency Management takes enhancing professional capabilities as the main line, strengthening guarantees and incentives as the breakthrough point, and effectively playing a role as the goal, giving full play to the **on-site sentinel role of disaster information officers.

　　First, work hard on team building and focus on improving professional capabilities. Enhance knowledge reserves. Improve the tiered training mechanism, organize teacher training every year, guide local areas in carrying out business training, and basically achieve full coverage. Enhance the awareness of proactively reporting disasters, compile and publish a series of training materials, develop an online learning platform, organize skills competitions, and continuously enhance the awareness of proactively reporting disasters. Improve practical capabilities, strengthen daily business guidance, strengthen the analysis and judgment of dangerous situations and disaster conditions, skillfully use the disaster reporting system, and improve the timeliness and quality of disaster reporting year by year.

　　Second, work hard on team management and focus on guiding healthy development. Strengthen top-level design. The Ministry of Emergency Management, together with relevant departments, issued guiding opinions to clarify the source composition, numerical layout, job responsibilities, and safeguard measures of disaster information officers. Pay attention to establishing rules and regulations, guide localities to generally issue implementation plans and management measures, and promote orderly work in accordance with regulations. Leverage informatization. Build a national disaster information officer database and an intelligent outbound call platform, and use informatization to promote standardized and precise management of the team.

　　Third, work hard on team support and focus on stimulating team vitality. Strengthen equipment allocation. The Ministry of Emergency Management, together with telecommunications operators, provides preferential packages and promotes the allocation by localities of a series of equipment such as computers, mobile disaster reporting terminals, and life jackets. Implement subsidies. Promote Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and other places to implement subsidies for disaster information officers across the province, averaging 100 yuan per person per month, and guide Fujian and other places to purchase personal accident insurance. Improve rewards and encouragement. With the help of mainstream media, continuously and widely publicize the deeds of a large number of advanced models.

　　Fourth, work hard on the use of the team and focus on giving play to the **on-site sentinel role. Report sudden disasters. Disaster information officers at and above the township level nationwide report an average of hundreds of thousands of disaster information items each year. Since the beginning of this year, a total of 394,000 items have been reported. Investigate risks and hidden dangers. Grassroots disaster information officers are on the front line, transmitting early warning information, investigating risks and hidden dangers, assisting in the relocation of people, and avoiding casualties.

　　Chen Sheng said that in the face of increasingly complex, severe, and extreme disaster situations, disaster information officers at all levels have overcome difficulties such as poor transportation and communications in disaster areas, earnestly performed their duties, and made outstanding contributions to protecting the safety of people's lives and property.