REPORT ON THE EVACUATION AREA PLANNING IN CHINA AND CONSTRUCTION CONDITION IN BEIJING

Abstract

On 12 May 2008, the severe earthquake struck Sichuan province in China, which claimed 69,226 lives and injured 374,643 people. Drawing a lesson from this extremely strong earthquake, also as an important respect of urban disaster prevention, the evacuation area construction was carried out in many places in China after the Wenchuan Earthquake. Based on the collection of latest construction information and a site survey about facilities and surroundings of existed evacuation area, this report introduces and analyzes the construction condition of emergency evacuation areas in central zone of Beijing. It also discusses on some problems found in the survey.