Xi urges maximum disaster relief effort

President says planning, warnings crucial during typhoon, flood season

President Xi Jinping has called for all-out efforts in disaster relief to minimize casualties and damage during a season of typhoons and frequent floods.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said in an instruction that Party committees and governments in related areas should firmly adopt the people-centered approach, step up emergency responses, perform their job responsibilities, make more detailed contingency plans and ensure disasters can be handled in a timely way.