CHENGDU, Aug 28th (Gwadar Pro) - August 24th to 28th, the “Training Course on Natural Disaster Monitoring and Risk Reduction of CPEC” initiated by China Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Science (CPJRC) was held online.

 

The training course is in a bid to strengthen natural disaster prevention and control along CPEC, to ensure the local safety and property, and to serve the sustainable development of the areas.

 

Delivered by Chinese high-end scientific and technological talents from well-known academic institutions, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for Pakistani scholars and students, this course includes the latest research results of natural disaster monitoring, early warning, risk prevention, and application of technology.

 

The four-day online lectures was separated into several keynote presentations, such as early identification, monitoring and warning of landslides, marine geological disasters, typhoons and storm surge, debris flow, and seism. Several advanced technologies that can be applied to protect CPEC projects were also explained in details, such as satellite and distributed optical fiber.

 

Pakistani experts and students were able to participate in the online training free of charge. And according to their feedback, the course was “very useful for local development and CPEC construction”, a “great effort to understand the nature of disaster”, “very qualified and impressive lecture”. They also asked questions about the topics to lecturers, and Pakistani and Chinese scholars discussed several academic issues around earth science.

 

According to CPJRC, CPEC is a pilot region and a flagship project of BRI, which includes cooperation in the fields of transportation, energy, fiber optic cables and ocean. However, due to geological, topographic, geomorphological, climatic, and hydrological conditions, CPEC is plagued by mountain disasters, extremely fragile ecological environment and limited resource carrying capacity, posing a serious threat to regional security and development, and restricting the progress of these projects. To cope with such a dilemma, through exchange and education, a team with disaster risk management capabilities, prediction and recognition capabilities, disaster management capabilities, and early warning capabilities will be formed.

 

This article originally appeared on Gwadar Pro.