"The rain situation has escalated, and the flood prevention situation is severe. Please stop all activities immediately and quickly move to a safe shelter!" On June 29, a clear and urgent emergency broadcast announcement sounded in Shicao Village, Qianjiadian Town, Yanqing District, marking the official start of a live-action flood prevention emergency evacuation information release drill. Relying on the established four-tier emergency broadcast system, the district-level platform issued warning directives with one click, while towns and villages responded simultaneously, swiftly carrying out personnel transfers and contact with missing persons. The entire dispatch process was efficient and smooth, accurately testing the rapid response and multi-level coordination capabilities of the regional emergency broadcast system.
Yanqing's mountain villages are scattered and the terrain is complex. Heavy rainfall can easily trigger secondary disasters such as flash floods and slope collapses. Traditional warning methods suffer from coverage gaps, weak disaster resistance, and lagging response. To address these shortcomings in grassroots disaster prevention and early warning, Beijing launched the emergency broadcast system construction project in 2024, with Yanqing becoming one of the first seven pilot districts. In May 2025, the pilot project was successfully completed and put into operation, establishing a multi-level structure of "1 district-level platform + 4 mountain town sub-platforms + 12 risk villages," forming a vertical information release channel connecting the city, district, town, and village levels, and horizontally linking with the district emergency management bureau and the district urban command center, achieving multi-department data sharing and coordinated response, thoroughly breaking through the "last mile" of mountain disaster prevention and early warning. During the 2025 flood season, the pilot system operated efficiently, cumulatively pushing 99 warning messages of various types, including rainstorms, thunderstorms, and floods, effectively strengthening the safety bottom line of mountain flood prevention.
In 2025, the Haihe River "25·7" regional flood disaster exposed the shortcomings of the original grassroots early warning system in coverage and disaster resistance, also accelerating the expansion and quality improvement of the Yanqing emergency broadcast system. Relying on relevant policy support, the district launched the second phase of the emergency broadcast expansion and quality improvement project, building standardized emergency broadcast systems for 128 administrative villages in 6 mountain towns. The project was carried out in batches, with steady progress, prioritizing the completion of equipment deployment in 52 administrative villages including Zhenzhuquan Township, Qianjiadian Town, and Sihai Town, strictly implementing standardized terminal configuration specifications. Currently, the broadcast systems in these villages have completed overall debugging and entered trial operation, greatly enhancing the emergency warning and response capabilities of key areas in the eastern mountains. The construction of the remaining 76 administrative villages will proceed steadily according to plan.
It is reported that the completed 52 administrative villages are uniformly equipped with terminal devices according to the standard of "1 high-reliability terminal + 2 ordinary terminals per village." Ordinary terminals have stable basic performance and can remain online for 24 hours after a power outage. High-reliability terminals have longer battery life—up to 72 hours—and are equipped with 360-degree monitoring cameras and two-way communication. Under normal conditions, both types of terminals can meet routine grassroots needs such as policy propaganda, fire prevention reminders, village notifications, and science popularization. In emergencies such as rainstorms, flash floods, and landslides, they can continuously broadcast warning information and evacuation guidance, and transmit real-time scene images back to the district command center, providing precise and intuitive on-site evidence for situation assessment, overall dispatch, and frontline response.
"Hardware upgrades are just the foundation. Long-term stable operation and maintenance support are essential for the early warning system to truly take effect," said Sun Jijun, head of the technical support department of the district media convergence center. "To ensure the 24/7 stable operation of the emergency broadcast system, we have established a professional technical support team, strictly implementing a double-person 24-hour on-duty mechanism to monitor the online status, operating parameters, and signal transmission of all terminals around the clock, and promptly troubleshoot and resolve equipment failures. We also conduct regular flood prevention and geological disaster drills to repeatedly refine the entire process of information release, on-site feedback, and emergency response, honing the technical team and improving the response mechanism through practical exercises, continuously enhancing the actual combat effectiveness of the entire broadcast system and grassroots emergency response capabilities."
"Combining normal and emergency use, one platform for multiple purposes, is the core concept of Yanqing's emergency broadcast system construction. In normal times, the emergency broadcast serves as a grassroots propaganda position rooted in rural areas, empowering refined rural governance; in the face of emergencies such as rainstorms and flash floods, the system directly enters emergency mode, accurately pushing key information such as warning alerts, evacuation instructions, and safety guidance, achieving rapid response, precise warning, and efficient coordination, protecting the safety of mountain village residents." Hu Jiumei, secretary of the party leadership group and director of the district media convergence center, stated, "We will continue to base our work on the actual disaster prevention needs of mountainous areas, adhere to a combat-oriented approach to improve quality and efficiency, and continuously improve the emergency communication governance system for both normal and emergency use, making the emergency broadcast not only a 'convenient loudspeaker' for serving the public but also a 'safety sentinel' for protecting the safety of the region."
Source: Beijing Number Author: Beijing Yanqing Official Release
