At 17: 00 on June 1, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 occurred in Lushan County, Ya ‘an City, Sichuan Province. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development launched a Class III emergency response in accordance with regulations to guide the disaster-stricken areas to carry out emergency assessment of housing construction and municipal infrastructure. The housing and urban-rural construction system of Sichuan Province immediately organized personnel to go to the epicenter to carry out earthquake relief work.

After investigation, there were no casualties caused by the collapse of houses in Ya ‘an city, especially after the Lushan earthquake of magnitude 7.0 in 2013, 1,737 urban houses and 15,125 rural houses newly built in Lushan County did not collapse in the earthquake, and the municipal infrastructure did not appear serious damage. The relevant person in charge said that the highest intensity of the earthquake was 8 degrees. Although the seismic fortification intensity of Lushan County was only 7 degrees, the buildings and municipal infrastructure in the disaster area still withstood the "test" of the earthquake.

The New Appearance of Lushan County after the "4.20" Lushan Earthquake

In recent years, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has thoroughly studied and implemented the important expositions and instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on disaster prevention, mitigation and relief work, always adhered to the principle of "people first, life first", actively practiced the concepts of "two persistences" and "three changes" in disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, resolutely implemented the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, done a solid job in earthquake prevention and prevention in urban and rural construction, improved the earthquake management system in urban and rural construction, effectively responded to earthquake disasters, and continuously improved the level of earthquake prevention and prevention in urban and rural construction.

In order to implement the relevant decision-making arrangements of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the housing and urban-rural development system in Sichuan Province has comprehensively improved its earthquake-resistant and disaster-prevention capabilities from five aspects: system establishment, standard formulation, talent reserve, hidden danger elimination and emergency response, and effectively and orderly responded to the Lushan earthquake on April 20, Jiuzhaigou earthquake on August 8, Changning earthquake on June 17 and Luxian earthquake on September 16.

Adhere to policies and regulations and establish a management system first.

Sichuan’s housing and urban-rural construction system has effectively played the basic, supportive and leading role of policies and regulations, and strived to improve its ability to perform its duties according to law. By earnestly summing up the experience and lessons of previous earthquakes, it has continuously improved the policy system and built a set of perfect rules and regulations for earthquake prevention and disaster prevention, which has provided an important basis for the development of earthquake prevention and disaster prevention.

Panorama of Wenchuan county

After the "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the "Implementation Opinions on Safety Appraisal, Restoration, Reinforcement and Demolition of Damaged Houses in Wenchuan Earthquake-stricken Areas" was compiled in three months, and issued by the provincial government Decree No.226, which provided policy guidance for the safety appraisal, restoration, reinforcement and demolition of damaged houses in earthquake-stricken areas. In 2013, based on a comprehensive summary of the experience and lessons of construction projects in resisting earthquake disasters since the "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake, the Administrative Measures for Resisting Earthquake Disasters of Construction Projects in Sichuan Province was compiled and issued by the provincial government Decree No.266, which made specific provisions on urban and rural earthquake prevention planning, earthquake fortification of projects, completion acceptance of project construction supervision, seismic use of existing buildings, and legal responsibilities. In 2017, focusing on the difficulties and problems existing in the management of rural housing construction, the first government regulation on rural housing management in China, the Measures for the Management of Rural Housing Construction in Sichuan Province, was promulgated, which clearly stated that it is necessary to enhance the ability of rural housing to resist seismic fortification and natural disasters, and comprehensively implement it in combination with rural housing construction to tackle poverty, and continuously improve the awareness of seismic fortification of rural housing construction in poverty-stricken areas such as Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.

The New Appearance of Yingxiu Town after "5.12" Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction

In August, 2021, after the promulgation of the Regulations on Earthquake-resistant Management of Construction Projects (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations), the housing and urban-rural construction system in Sichuan Province quickly carried out the training on publicizing the Regulations, and popularized the relevant regulations through multiple channels and in all directions, which enhanced the administrative departments and the public’s understanding of the importance of earthquake-resistant management of construction projects and created a good social atmosphere for the implementation of the Regulations. Focusing on the new tasks and requirements put forward in the Regulations, combined with previous practical experience in earthquake resistance, the housing and urban-rural construction system of Sichuan Province is organizing the compilation of local standards related to seismic isolation and shock absorption, so as to provide guarantee for the implementation of the Regulations.

Strengthen scientific and technological support and formulate a set of standard system

Sichuan housing and urban-rural construction system takes technical standards as the criterion and bottom line of engineering construction, pays attention to the research and development and application of earthquake-resistant technology, issues relevant technical standards and regulations, strengthens scientific and technological support, and strictly controls all processes of engineering construction to ensure the implementation of earthquake-resistant and disaster-prevention requirements.

Improve the standard system. Compile and issue a series of local standards on seismic fortification engineering construction, such as Technical Specification for Seismic Appraisal and Reinforcement of Buildings in Sichuan Province, Technical Standard for Assembling Integral Composite Shear Wall Structure in Sichuan Province, Technical Standard for Application of Laminated Rubber Isolation Bearings in Buildings in Sichuan Province, and Technical Standard for Steel Structure of Multi-storey Buildings in High Intensity Areas in Sichuan Province. More than 3 million copies of rural housing general atlas, quality and safety manual and seismic fortification wall chart, such as Technical Guidelines for Seismic Evaluation and Reinforcement of Rural Houses in Sichuan Province and Atlas of Seismic Structure of Rural Residential Buildings in Sichuan Province, were compiled and printed, so as to strengthen the popularization and application of prefabricated concrete structures, steel structures and seismic isolation technologies, and effectively guide the earthquake prevention and disaster prevention work in accordance with regulations.

Strict standards are implemented. Adhere to the requirements of earthquake resistance and disaster prevention in the whole process of site selection, planning, survey, design, construction drawing review, construction, supervision, completion acceptance, use and management of new projects, organize regular spot checks on survey and design quality and major inspections on the quality and safety of projects under construction, strictly examine and approve the seismic fortification of over-limit high-rise buildings, and compact the seismic fortification responsibilities of five main bodies, and implement the one-vote veto system for seismic review of construction drawings, the statistical reporting system for engineering quality and the record of completion acceptance.

Reserve a group of backbone forces around the construction of talent team

Sichuan housing and urban-rural construction system takes the construction of professional and technical personnel as an important starting point to implement the requirements of earthquake resistance and disaster prevention, sets up a team of experts, reserves professional and technical backbones, and improves the service efficiency of professional and technical personnel for earthquake resistance and disaster prevention.

Strengthen technical support. Conduct training for rural construction craftsmen and township construction management personnel in groups and districts, improve the awareness and ability of rural housing construction practitioners in earthquake resistance and disaster prevention, organize graduation examinations, and issue certificates for rural construction craftsmen. By the end of 2021, more than 30,000 rural construction craftsmen had been trained and participated extensively in the whole process of rural housing construction management; At the same time, more than 2,000 front-line supervisors of quality and safety supervision institutions will be trained to ensure the ability of earthquake resistance and disaster prevention of construction projects from the link of project quality supervision. Establish a rural housing construction supervision and inspection system of "going to the township, village, point and household" to ensure the implementation of seismic fortification measures. 143 experts in geotechnical engineering, municipal construction and other fields were selected, and an expert database for seismic review was established to provide technical support and guarantee for the special review of seismic fortification.

Build a strong emergency relief team. Combined with many post-earthquake emergency assessment practices, the training of experts in post-earthquake emergency assessment of housing construction was strengthened, with a total of more than 1200 people trained. Vigorously strengthen the construction of emergency rescue capability, and set up a provincial emergency rescue team consisting of 77 units in six categories: engineering survey, architectural engineering design, municipal engineering design, construction general contracting, engineering supervision and construction engineering quality inspection, which effectively enriched the emergency rescue force and improved the professional ability level of emergency rescue.

Pay close attention to risk investigation and rectification to eliminate a number of potential safety hazards

Sichuan’s housing and urban-rural construction system adheres to the working idea of early detection and early elimination, and coordinated at the provincial, city and county levels to thoroughly investigate and rectify hidden dangers in housing construction, completely eliminate hidden dangers and ensure the safety of the people.

Establish a linkage and coordination mechanism. Issued the work plan for the investigation and rectification of safety risks in housing construction and personnel gathering places, adhered to the "weekly dispatch and monthly notification", held regular coordination mechanism work meetings, and urged the implementation of the work. Actively carry out the first national natural disaster risk survey, and comprehensively find out the basic capacity of disaster-bearing bodies in housing construction and municipal infrastructure to resist natural disasters. Adhere to the principle of "general survey and rectification at the same time", and timely rectify the housing buildings and municipal infrastructure found to have potential safety hazards in the general survey through maintenance and reinforcement, renovation of old residential areas, etc.

Establish an information supervision platform. Take the lead in establishing the "intelligent supervision platform for housing quality and safety in the whole province" in the country, build a database of housing quality and safety, and further improve the dual prevention mechanism of grading management and control of construction safety risks and investigation and management of hidden dangers. The relevant work has been affirmed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the relevant practices have been promoted nationwide.

Carry out special rectification of self-built houses. In accordance with the requirements of the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing the National Work Plan for Special Renovation of Self-built Houses, we should do a good job of "tackling the key problems in a hundred days", comprehensively find out the seismic capacity of housing buildings, adhere to the principle of "general survey while using", and make every effort to promote the investigation and rectification of potential safety hazards in housing buildings, especially commercial self-built houses.

Continue to promote the transformation of rural housing. By the end of 2021, 15,000 rural houses and 2.58 million rural dangerous houses had been rebuilt, which effectively improved the seismic performance of rural houses.

Pay close attention to wartime rescue and disaster relief to form a set of emergency mechanism

Combined with previous experience in earthquake relief, the housing and urban-rural construction system in Sichuan Province has formed a complete emergency mechanism of command and coordination, post-disaster assessment and emergency rescue based on the actual needs during the post-earthquake emergency rescue.

Strengthen command and coordination. Revise and improve the Earthquake Emergency Plan for Housing and Urban-Rural Construction System in Sichuan Province, establish a coordinated plan mechanism at the provincial, city and county levels, and build an earthquake relief headquarters for the housing and urban-rural construction system in Sichuan Province with the main leaders of the Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Department as the commander and the offices of the organs and the competent departments of housing and urban-rural construction in various cities (states) as members.

Establish a fast response evaluation mechanism. Immediately after the "8.8" Jiuzhaigou earthquake, "6.17" Changning earthquake, "9.16" Luxian earthquake and "6.1" Lushan earthquake, we organized and mobilized trade associations, appraisal institutions, quality supervision institutions and evaluation experts, assembled and went directly to the epicenter within 24 hours, and completed the emergency evaluation of tens of thousands of houses and municipal infrastructure within 96 hours, and passed the evaluation results. At present, the post-earthquake emergency assessment software is being developed and is expected to be put into use this year.

We will make every effort to improve the earthquake resistance and disaster prevention capacity of urban and rural construction and better help the high-quality development of urban and rural construction. The relevant person in charge said that he will continue to follow the important exposition and important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on disaster prevention, mitigation and relief work as the fundamental principle of earthquake prevention and relief work, always put the safety of people’s lives and property first, adhere to the bottom line thinking, make overall plans for development and safety, lay a solid foundation for earthquake prevention and prevention, make the earthquake prevention and prevention work solid, detailed and well done, effectively guarantee the safety of urban and rural housing construction and municipal engineering, and greet the party’s twentieth victory with practical actions.

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On March 1st, the State Council Press Office held a routine briefing on policies. The People’s Bank of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and other departments introduced the situation of "further optimizing payment services and improving payment convenience" and paid attention to it together.

A quick look at the main points:

Banks and payment institutions should further optimize the account opening process, rationally implement the classified management of accounts, and continuously improve the service level of accounts.

Guide major payment institutions such as Alipay and Tenpay to increase the limit of single transaction for foreign visitors to China from $1,000 to $5,000.

At present, the major mobile payment apps have been upgraded for aging, and more than 96% of the bank outlets in the country have promoted aging transformation.

Continue to retain the manual ticket window and manual ticket checking method to facilitate the elderly and foreign friends to purchase tickets offline.

What measures have been put forward in the Opinions on Further Optimizing Payment Services and Improving Payment Convenience, which was deliberated and adopted by the the State Council executive meeting?

People’s Bank of China:

1. Promote key places and key merchants to accept overseas bank cards, and effectively improve the acceptance environment of bank cards.

2. Adhere to the positioning of cash, continuously improve the cash use environment, and continuously improve the level of foreign currency exchange and cash services.

3. Fully consider the special needs of the elderly, foreigners coming to China and other groups, and make good arrangements for aging and internationalization services to further enhance the convenience of mobile payment.

4. Better protect consumers’ right to pay. Business districts, tourist attractions, hotel accommodation and other key places above the scale must support diversified payment methods such as mobile payment, bank cards and cash, and the conditions for actively creating below the scale shall be handled with reference.

5. Banks and payment institutions should further optimize the account opening process, rationally implement classified management of accounts, and continuously improve the service level of accounts.

6. Carry out various and targeted publicity activities, and continuously strengthen the construction of "soft environment" such as publicity and promotion.

What measures will be introduced to facilitate the payment of foreign nationals in China?

People’s Bank of China:

1. In view of the low success rate of overseas bank cards bound by Alipay and WeChat, Alipay and Tenpay are required and instructed to optimize their business processes and improve the efficiency of card binding.

2. Simplify the arrangement of identity verification, so that foreigners in China can handle it more conveniently in a series of processes such as card binding. We are also very concerned about the protection of personal information. We will strictly require relevant institutions to implement the Personal Information Protection Law and other laws and regulations to effectively protect the security of personal information.

3. Instruct major payment institutions such as Alipay and Tenpay to increase the single transaction limit of mobile payment for foreigners coming to China from $1,000 to $5,000, and increase the annual cumulative transaction limit from $10,000 to $50,000.

What measures will be taken to optimize the payment service for inbound tourism?

Ministry of Culture and Tourism:

1. Promote the establishment of hardware and software facilities for accepting mobile payment, bank cards, cash, etc. in national scenic spots above 4A level, national tourist resorts, national night culture and tourism consumption gathering areas, and national tourist and leisure blocks, and facilitate the payment upgrade of key cultural and tourist scenes such as tourist attractions, resorts, cultural and cultural venues, entertainment venues, star-rated hotels, cultural and business complexes.

2. Guide and support Internet platform enterprises closely related to "food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment", and optimize the payment experience for overseas visitors to purchase cultural and tourism products and services online and offline.

3. In terms of the convenience of ticket purchase in scenic spots, it will promote the reservation of artificial windows in scenic spots, and provide offline ticket purchase and other services for the majority of tourists, including the elderly and inbound tourists, to meet the needs of tourists to visit and visit to the maximum extent.

4. Simplify the online booking procedures to provide more convenience for tourists.

What has been done to adapt the payment service to aging?

National Development and Reform Commission:

In order to solve the "digital divide" of mobile payment faced by the elderly in their daily consumption, we will intensify the rectification and rectification of discriminatory behaviors such as refusing to accept cash and refusing to pay by bank cards. In 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission took the lead in drafting and reporting to the State Council for issuance and implementation of the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Effectively Solving the Difficulties of the Elderly in Using Intelligent Technology, requiring any unit or individual not to refuse cash in any way, and strengthening the supervision of the payment market.

People’s Bank of China:

At present, the major mobile payment apps have been upgraded to adapt to aging. By simplifying the process, adding warm tips, increasing language broadcasts, enlarging font images, and manual customer service on special lines, the mobile payment service experience of the elderly group has been improved. More than 96% of the bank outlets in China have promoted aging transformation, and by upgrading self-service equipment and setting up "green channels" and "service areas" for elderly customers, it is convenient for the elderly group to handle payment and settlement business and create warm outlets.

What measures will be taken to continuously improve and improve the service level of transportation?

Ministry of Transport:

1. Enrich ticket purchasing channels. Accelerate the popularization of online ticket sales, promote the application of e-tickets, and facilitate domestic and foreign personnel to purchase tickets online with ID cards, passports, permanent residence cards for foreigners and other documents. At the same time, according to the payment habits of different groups, we will continue to retain the manual ticket window and manual ticket checking method to facilitate the elderly and foreign friends to purchase tickets offline.

2. Improve the payment method. Actively promote the major domestic car-sharing platform enterprises to expand payment channels, and some enterprises provide foreign friends with the service of "overseas mobile phone number registration+international credit card payment". Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other cities support foreign friends to bind overseas bank cards through Alipay and China Unionpay Quick Pass, and use QR codes to scan codes to take urban public transport and rail transit.

3. Optimize the travel environment. We will promote the aging transformation of transportation, operate urban public transport with low floors and low entrances, equip the subway with barrier-free crossing boards, improve the multilingual signs of transportation hubs, and provide bilingual broadcasting and service guidance at qualified passenger routes and rail transit stations to facilitate the travel of the elderly and foreign friends. In key periods such as Spring Festival travel rush, some transportation hubs are equipped with special service personnel and volunteers to provide necessary help and guidance for the elderly and foreign friends.

4. Improve the service experience. Continue to promote the taxi 95128 telephone car service and the "one-click car call" service for online car service, and optimize the car rental process for foreigners. Actively carry out pilot projects of domestic waterway passenger quality routes to improve the service level of international cruise ships.

What measures will be taken to optimize foreign currency exchange services?

State Administration of Foreign Exchange:

1. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange will continue to promote more foreign currency exchange institutions to provide better exchange services for foreigners coming to China.

2. Ensure the foreign currency exchange service at the airport, and guide the priority arrangement of foreign currency exchange institutions and facilities at the airport arrival.

3. Ensure that ports, foreign-related hotels and other important scenes have at least one of five types of foreign currency exchange channels, which are mainly bank outlets with exchange marks, ATMs that support the use of overseas bank cards to withdraw cash, foreign currency exchange agencies authorized by banks, individual foreign currency exchange franchises, and some self-service exchange machines that can exchange foreign currencies by themselves.

4, in airports, ports, foreign-related hotels and other places to promote personal local and foreign currency exchange logo.

5. Encourage qualified individuals, local and foreign currency exchange franchises and bank outlets to expand the currency supply of foreign currency exchange to better meet the exchange needs of people from different countries and regions.

6. Further meet the mobile payment and online consumption needs of foreign visitors to China, continuously improve the existing business processes, and vigorously support the innovation of various safe and convenient payment service products.

What will be done to optimize payment services for the elderly and foreigners and promote the consumption of living services?

Ministry of Commerce:

1. Promote catering and other industries to improve the payment acceptance environment. We will work with relevant departments to formulate policy documents to promote the high-quality development of the catering industry, and guide local authorities to urge relevant catering business entities to retain manual services and traditional payment methods, and shall not refuse RMB cash.

2. Improve the industry standards of the retail industry and provide diversified payment services. Guide retail and other consumer places to provide diversified payment methods such as cash, bank cards and mobile payment to meet the payment needs of various consumer groups.

3. Give play to the exemplary leading role of international consumption center cities. We will guide Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing and other cities to actively promote the convenience of payment in the process of cultivating and building an international consumption center city, and create a good payment environment with multiple ways to choose from, multiple places to apply and multiple currencies to be convertible.