Central China's Hubei province will establish a Central China Regional Emergency Rescue Center, with its main functional base in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WHDZ) – located in Wuhan city, capital of the province – according to local media reports.
Under the plan, the center will break ground this year and be completed in 2022 and formally start operations in 2023.
The Central China Regional Emergency Rescue Center, with a total investment of 1.01 billion yuan ($156 million), will be one of six national regional emergency rescue centers in the country.
Plans include construction of a comprehensive facility that integrates emergency command coordination, aviation support deliveries, teaching and training covering the Central China region – as well as a water rescue training base at another site with practical training conditions for flood disasters.
On completion, it will mainly be responsible for major flood disaster rescue missions in the provinces of Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Henan and Jiangsu.
The WHDZ is also known as Hannan and the new center will primarily comprise the Hannan Main Functional Area and the Honghu Water Rescue Training Base.
The Hannan Main Functional Area will be located in the General Aviation and Satellite Industrial Park in the WHDZ, which will have an emergency headquarters, a comprehensive rescue base, a material reserve base, a training and exercise base and an aviation support base.
The Honghu Water Rescue Training Base will be located in the county-level city of Honghu in southern Hubei province. It will include an equipment warehouse, business complex, water level adjustment station, water rescue comprehensive training field, drill command field and other simulated training sites.
