Typical Flood Disasters During Last Sixty Years and Strategies of Flood Control and Disaster Mitigation in China

The base situations on Chinese flood disasters were introduced.The typical flood events during last sixty years and strategies of flood control and disaster mitigation in China were analyzed in detail.The results indicate that the basic features of Chinese flood disasters have no change.Instead,the flood events are more uncertain,the human activities are more intense,the risks of high dam-breaking increase and the flash floods are of more concern.According to these new features,the strategies of flood control and disaster mitigation are proposed in this paper,which are to update the ideas about flood control,to strengthen flood control and disaster mitigation research,to integrate all resources of flood control,to enforce construction of laws with relation to flood control,to enhance the risk consciousness of high dam-breaking,and to reinforce the prevention of flash flood.