Law and Rebuilding Community In Post-Disaster Recovery In China

Law and Community in the Post-Disaster Recovery in China Abstract: The existing the emergency response act of PRC(2007) prescribes many issues with regards to the post- disaster recovery, especially the rights and obligations of governments of different levels, civilians,and NGOs,etc. The efficiency and effectiveness of these articles related to the recovery was not reviewed until the 5.12 Wen Chuan Great Earthquake took place in 2008. Especially in the period of recovery of the catastrophe, the rebuilding of local community is one of most important problems confronted by the disaster zone, but which cannot resolved practically according to the above mentioned law and demonstrated there existed at least four shortcomings in the law.So the central and Sichuan provincial government took several active measures to make up the shortcomings of the law for rebuilding the community. Firstly, the State of Council made specially and comprehensively the post-disaster recovery regulation.Secondly, different governments were facilitated to build up mutual help relationship so as to restore and revitalize the economy and social development as soon as possible.Thirdly, government adopted many mitigation disaster policies synchronizing with the planning and rebuilding disaster zone. Finally, in the process of rebuilding, the ability of self aid and help of individual and family was emphasized by the government and community which began to promote drastically to train and educate the civil society 's disaster response ever than before. In sum, the benefits generated from recovery practices of the Sichuan must be very helpful to amend and perfect the existing recovery articles of the act .