Map source

The online map of integrated disaster index by province in China in 2016 comes from the Atlas of China's Natural Disasters in 2016. This map was edited by the Office of the National Disaster Reduction Commission, the Disaster Relief Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Disaster Reduction Center of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and was published by China Map Publishing House.

The Atlas of China's Natural Disasters in 2016 is the sixth volume of the Atlas of China's Natural Disasters series. In terms of layout design, it continues the concept of Atlas of Natural Disasters 2011-2015 in China, continues to adopt the current international popular simplicity style, and fully uses composite colors and combined symbol expression methods combining the characteristics of natural disasters, so as to have both the readability of the content, the aesthetics of the overall layout, and the objectivity of information transmission. In terms of content setting, in addition to the traditional analysis of disaster situations and temporal and spatial characteristics, an attempt to analyze the disaster situation, monthly disaster situation distribution characteristics, and relative loss index in key regions of the “Belt and Road” has also been added.

General situation of natural disasters

In 2016, natural disasters in China were mainly floods, typhoons, wind, hail and geological disasters. Drought, earthquakes, low temperature freezing, snow disasters and forest fires also occurred to varying degrees. According to statistics, all kinds of natural disasters have affected nearly 190 million people nationwide, 1432 people died, 274 people were missing, 1608 people were hospitalized due to disasters, 9.110 million people were urgently relocated and 3.538 million people needed emergency life assistance; 521000 houses collapsed and 3.34 million were damaged to varying degrees; The affected area of crops was 26.22 million hectares, of which 2.9 million hectares were lost; The direct economic loss was 503.29 billion yuan. In general, the disaster situation in 2016 was slightly lighter than that since 2000, basically equal to the average value during the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period, and significantly heavier than that in 2015.