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China’s meteorological monitoring and forecasting capability has been effectively improved, with the coverage rate of the country’s weather radars at 43.6 percent at an altitude of one kilometer above the ground, said meteorological officials.
During a press conference on Thursday, Wang Yawei, head of the emergency disaster reduction and public service division under the China Meteorological Administration, said that the distance between meteorological observation stations in key flood control regions was close to eight kilometers.
<img src='https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-02/China-improves-meteorological-monitoring-forecasting-capability-1vJZwv9aKe4/img/56d59163b3204581b7c0de31ed4e8df8/56d59163b3204581b7c0de31ed4e8df8.jpeg' alt='Staff members rotate a weather radar to check for anomalies in Quanzhou Meteorological Bureau, Quanzhou, east China's Fujian Province, January 6, 2024./ CFP'
China currently has 546 sets of weather radars, Wang said on Friday.
The meteorological administration added three new buoy stations and 218 drifting buoys. Relying on equipment such as weather radars, ground-based vertical remote sensing systems and the BeiDou sounding system, the administration carried out coordinated observations of severe convection and typhoons in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta.
The administration has initiated a trial of short, imminent flash flood risk warnings, updated every 10 minutes within three hours, and a pilot meteorological risk warning system for rainstorms and waterlogging in 17 cities.
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