Studies Of Natural Disaster Emergency Management Capabilities Of The Local Government

In recent years, natural disaster happens in the world frequently, not only threat to people's lives and property security but also the social stability. Now, natural disasters has become an important issue of the international.China is the country which has large territory, is among the most serious natural disasters in the world. According to the statistics recently, China's natural disasters economic lose more than 200 billion yuan each year. Natural disasters influence China more and more serious. In February 2008, the southern of China occurred the frozen snow disasters which for 50 years not happen; May 12,2008, Sichuan Province of china has happend the magnitude 8.0 earthquake. Face the unexpected natural disasters, China's central government and local governments respond to this actively, and achieved the victory ultimately. At the same time, we are aware that China is in a period of multiple natural disasters. Government as the main managers of natural disaster, must pay great attention to natural disasters, continuously improve the capacities of emergency management of natural disasters. Our country's territory is very large, Local governments are often first to respond to the natural disaster, the emergency management of natural disasters capabilities of the local government directly affect the level of the process and the results of disaster. Enhance local government emergency management capabilities, can improve the level of response to natural disasters greatly, and reduce people's lives and property losses on the natural disasters and maintain social stability.The first chapter of this article is introduction, introduces the research background, the significance of this topics, and trace the worldwide Literature. The second chapter define the basic concepts, including:the definition of natural disasters, characteristics and hazards; the definition of the Government Emergency Management, the social role of emergency management and emergency management process; the definition of local government capacity to natural disasters. The third chapter summarized the current situation of local emergency management capacity of natural disasters, and analysis the shortage of capacities and analysis the reasons.The fourth chapter from the four aspects:sense of crisis, early warning mechanisms, emergency response and the restoration to explain how to enhance natural disasters emergency management capacities of local governments.