A short note on four different emergency management mechanisms in the Chinese government disaster response

Feng Kong 

Corresponding authors: Feng Kong, e-mail: kongfeng0824@foxmail.com;

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Published online

Abstract: China's government emergency management has the capacity to stand up an emergency management office, an emergency management headquarters, a joint defence and control command mechanism, and an emergency management joint conference. This short note compares these different mechanisms along several important dimensions. The overall emergency management organization and command system of COVID-19 is analyzed specifically.

Keywords: China, comprehensive coordination ability, emergency management headquarters, emergency management organization and command system, joint defence and control command mechanism

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To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12407