This snowfall also provides an opportunity to continuously improve the city's refined governance capabilities.
In the early morning of December 13, on Guangqu Road, Gonglian Jieda Company of the Capital Group carried out pre-spreading operations of snow melting agent for key road sections to reduce possible road snow accumulation. Photo by Beijing News reporter Wang Guibin.
Beijing News editorial.
On December 12, Beijing upgraded an orange warning for heavy snowfall and encouraged citizens to reduce travel and stay away from snow danger areas. At the same time, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Beijing are Xi at home, and citizens are encouraged to work at staggered peaks and work flexibly. The discussion about the orange warning for the blizzard in Beijing quickly became a hot topic on the Internet, which shows people's concern about the city's emergency management. According to the latest forecast of the Municipal Meteorological Observatory, from the evening of December 13 to the night, there will be heavy snow in the capital, and local blizzards.
A heavy snowfall tests a city's emergency management capabilities. In particular, for a megacity like Beijing, with a population of more than 20 million, how to face and deal with the many problems caused by the blizzard, the challenge is even more severe. At this time, it is very important to give full play to the advantages of Beijing's fine urban governance, and do the emergency work like embroidery.
The fine governance of cities should play a good first move. This requires a proactive response to be as prepared as possible before heavy snowfall arrives. It can be seen that this round of snowfall in Beijing, the weather forecast has been warned early, and the "preventive vaccination" has also been timely and effective, and people will talk about the upcoming blizzard when they meet. The relevant departments of the city continue to issue early warning information to remind relevant departments and personnel to pay attention to safety and security.
The warning information issued by the Beijing Municipal Emergency Management Department also specifically mentions the need to closely monitor and promptly remove snow from the top of large-span buildings such as stadiums. This reminder is pertinent and necessary.
Refined urban governance means recognizing that the city is a living entity, especially to protect the lifeline of the city. It is necessary not only to maintain the normal operation of key infrastructure and public utilities such as heating, electricity, gas and water supply, but also to ensure that many aspects closely related to people's lives, such as public transportation, food and drugs**, and medical aid, are foolproof and orderly.
For the megacity of Beijing, the solid implementation of these efforts can provide safety and security for the city's elderly, disabled and other social groups in extreme weather. Their safety itself is also an important criterion for measuring whether the city's emergency management efficiency is up to standard.
Therefore, in this round of snowfall, special attention and great attention are also needed to give special attention and attach great importance to the early warning and care for these vulnerable groups to ensure their safety and livelihood. In the past, every time there was extreme weather, Beijing's community pension service stations, street citizen service centers and other institutions would be put into operation in a timely manner to deliver warm-hearted services to the door. This time, depending on the snow conditions, you may wish to do a good job in related security services.
The fine governance of the city should also start and finish well, and it should not be anticlimactic. As the saying goes, snow doesn't get cold. After this round of snowfall, Beijing faced no less emergency challenges such as ice after the snow, muddy roads and snow on the roofs than during the snowfall. Therefore, it is necessary to speed up the organization of snow clearing and de-icing after snow to avoid safety accidents such as pedestrian slips and falls, vehicle rear-end collisions, etc.
Whether urban fine governance can be effective or not lies in the ability of grassroots governance. The snow is falling in patches, and things are done one by one. The various challenges brought about by Blizzard need to be implemented and resolved one by one by grassroots organizations and grassroots cadres. Only by taking action at the grassroots level can we achieve the goal of urban emergency management.
In recent years, Beijing has vigorously promoted the reform of "handling complaints as soon as they are received", earnestly grasped the "key small things", and continued to improve the capacity of grassroots governance. It is necessary to make good use of these magic weapons for grassroots governance, do the emergency work in detail and implement it, and train the grassroots cadre team through Blizzard emergency. At the same time, it is also necessary to fully empower and empower grassroots organizations, so that grassroots cadres have the information, resources, and ability to do emergency work.
A blizzard may expose the shortcomings and deficiencies of urban governance, but it will also help to improve urban physical examination, problem diagnosis and governance. It is foreseeable that the challenge of such extreme weather will not be the last for Beijing. This requires Beijing to adhere to the thinking of combining peacetime with wartime and peacetime in urban governance, and be prepared to deal with every crisis.
For example, summarizing the experience accumulated in each crisis response process in a timely manner, forming standard operating procedures, best practices and recommended practices, and solidifying and inheriting them through emergency plans, emergency manuals, emergency drills, etc., is a lesson in urban crisis Xi learning.
A heavy snowfall tested the level of fine governance in Beijing, a megacity. There is an opportunity in the crisis, and it is necessary to turn the crisis into an opportunity. This snowfall also provides an opportunity to continuously improve the city's refined governance capabilities. It is believed that Beijing will be able to achieve victory in coping with this extreme weather through the whole chain of crisis early warning, crisis response, crisis handling and crisis learning Xi.
Edited by Chi Daohua.
Proofread by Wu Xingfa.