The number of people killed and missing due to disasters, the number of houses collapsed due to disasters, and the proportion of direct economic losses caused by disasters in the country as a proportion of GDP, the three-year average from 2018 to 2020 decreased by 36.6%, 63.7% and 31.3% respectively compared with the three-year average from 2015 to 2017. Zhou Xuewen, vice minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management, made the above statement at a press conference held by the new office of the State Council on the 7th. (Reporter Liu Xiacun)
Source: Xinhua News Agency