Thoughts Inspired by an Environmental Emergency Monitoring Drill in 2013 in Sichuan

In recent years,various unpredictable environmental pollution accidents took place from time to time. In order to effectively deal with these environmental pollution accidents,establishing a perfect and effective environmental emergency monitoring system is of particularly important to protect both environment and people. The ways of how to strengthen the environmental emergency monitoring capacity and monitor the sudden environmental pollution accidents were introduced. Seven suggestions consisting of establishing the database of hazardous pollution sources with a high risk,strengthening the emergency monitoring ability,reinforcing the hardware construction of the emergency system,developing emergency monitoring plan,pushing public education and cooperation between the departments,and establishing the expert database were proposed.