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App aims to help disaster management

THE city’s civil affairs bureau will this year distribute 5,000 smartphones to local neighborhood committees to help them report natural disasters.

The phones, which are worth about 2,200 yuan (US$340) apiece, come with a pre-installed app that is linked to the Beidou global positioning system, and can be used to transmit vital information quickly.

In the past, Shanghai has experienced natural disasters like typhoons, said Hao Zhao, an official with the Shanghai Civil Affairs Disaster Reduction Center, under the city’s Civil Affairs Bureau.

In such events, local officials must report information as it happens and the new app will help with that, he said.

Last summer, Typhoon Chan-Hom forced the evacuation of 110,000 people across Shanghai. In 2012, Typhoon Haikui killed two people and destroyed 7,500 houses in the city.


 

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