The joint opening ceremony of the Seminar on Capacity Building of Work Safety Supervision and Enforcement for Belt and Road Russian-speaking Countries and Seminar on Disaster Risk Management and Disaster Risk Financing for ASEAN Countries was held in Beijing on May 14, 2025.
Zhang Xiaoning, head of International Cooperation and Exchange Center (IECC) of the Ministry of Emergency Management of China, and 52 participants from 11 countries including Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan attended the event.
Zhang Xiaoning said that since its establishment in November 2023, the Belt and Road International Cooperation Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management has been actively promoted the full implementation of international initiatives such as the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. 14 cooperation initiatives in the field of emergency management have been developed under the framework, marking a new stage of international cooperation in this aspect.
The opening ceremony of the first two seminars on emergency management this year has started the 1000-person Training Program in Emergency Management for Belt and Road countries in 2025.
Zhang Xiaoning said that China is geographically connected with the countries of Europe and Asia, and culturally close to the ASEAN countries. As members of the developing countries' family, we share a long history of traditional friendship. Our common concepts and missions in the field of emergency management sector, and our mutual support and assistance as well, have already bound us into the closest community of shared destiny.
IECC, as the leader for China-aid training program of the Ministry of Emergency Management, has specially designed a rich agenda for each training session. The two seminars today will be including classroom teaching, exchange meetings, on-site visits to Chengdu and Changsha, together with a comprehensive and multi-faceted introduction of China's emergency management system, laws and regulations, concepts and principles, and practical operations. Participants will have a chance to visit China's emerging technologies and equipment for emergency management, and understand more intuitively the development of China's emergency management sector. We hope the seminars will help us all to learn from each other.
During the seminar, we will organize activities for participants to experience Chinese cultures, such as visiting the Great Wall and CPC History Exhibition. We hope that all participants can know more about the long history and profound depth of Chinese culture and the friendly relations among all parties will be further strengthened.
Dubariev, head of the Industrial Safety Committee of the Emergency Situations Ministry of Kazakhstan, and Ondala, director of the Laos Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, delivered speeches respectively on behalf of participants. They spoke highly of the seminars on emergency management China organized, and expressed their enthusiasm for participating in the event to better understand China, learn from China’s experience and practices, and contribute to develop the emergency management sector of their own countries.
