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Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung requested ministries, branches and localities to urgently develop detailed response plans and scenarios for each type of natural disaster, each area, improve forecasting capacity, fully prepare forces, means and materials; At the same time, organize a comprehensive inspection of natural disaster prevention and control before the rainy and stormy season, ensuring to be proactive in all situations, not to be passive or surprised. Download Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung worked on preventing, combating, and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters in 2026 - Photo: VGP/Gia Huy On the afternoon of July 9, in Hanoi, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung worked with the Standing Committee of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment on the work of preventing, combating, and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters in 2026. Attending the meeting was the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment. (NN&MT) Nguyen Hoang Hiep; Deputy Minister of Finance Le Tan Can; Lieutenant General Le Quang Dao, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam Peoples Army; Lieutenant General Doan Thai Duc, Director of the Rescue and Rescue Department, General Staff, Chief of Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee... Perfecting institutions, improving the effectiveness of directing incident and natural disaster response According to the report of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, in 2025 and the first 6 months of 2026, advisory and direction work on civil defense continues to be deployed synchronously and comprehensively, closely following practical requirements. The focus is on advising on the construction and improvement of the system of legal documents, mechanisms and policies on civil defense and emergencies. The Ministry of National Defense has advised and promulgated many important documents, notably the Decree detailing a number of articles of the Civil Defense Law, the State of Emergency Law, regulations on training of civil defense forces, operating regulations of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, national civil defense plan for the period 2026-2030 and the system for receiving emergency information via phone number 112. Download Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung gave a directive speech at the meeting - Photo: VGP/Gia Huy Ministries and sectors such as: Police, Finance, Agriculture and Environment, Science and Technology, Industry and Trade also proactively reviewed, developed and promulgated many documents in the field of management, creating a synchronous legal basis for civil defense activities. The Steering Committee has advised on strengthening the organizational apparatus from the Central to local levels according to the provisions of the Civil Defense Law; Reorganize the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, strengthen the Civil Defense Command at all levels, build a specialized and part-time force to ensure unity and meet mission requirements. In the response to incidents and natural disasters, from January 1, 2025 to July 5, 2026, ministries, branches and localities have mobilized about 1.43 million people and more than 45,200 vehicles to participate in handling the above problems. 3,400 incidents, saving over 4,700 people and over 570 vehicles. The Army alone accounts for nearly 88% of the total workforce involved, directly handling more than 3,000 cases; At the same time, it organized firefighting and rescue, guided hundreds of thousands of vehicles to avoid storms, and supported the relocation of more than 326,000 households to safe places. Many major incidents such as storm No. 5, Storm No. 10 in 2025, the Green Bay 58 ship capsizing incident and many other natural disasters and accidents have been responded to promptly, contributing to minimizing damage to people and property. Download Lieutenant General Le Quang Dao, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam Peoples Army, spoke at the meeting - Photo: VGP/Gia HuyNeed to be proactive early, from afar Besides the achieved results, the Steering Committee also pointed out some limitations such as: Civil defense capacity in some commune-level Civil Defense Commands is not uniform; Specialized civil defense equipment is still incomplete. Communication to serve the command and control of civil defense in some flooded, divided, and isolated areas still does not meet the requirements. In addition, the work of digital transformation, database construction, command and control system and early warning have not met the requirements. A representative of the Ministry of Public Security said that in 2025 and reporting for the first 6 months of the year, the police force has mobilized over 700,000 officers and soldiers to participate in natural disaster prevention and over 100,000 priority vehicles to perform their tasks. The forces have supported and helped people overcome the consequences of natural disasters, search and rescue, and rescue. To improve the effectiveness of prevention, control, and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, the representative of the Ministry of Public Security stated that it is necessary to be proactive early, from afar, with careful preparation of scenarios so that when the actual situation occurs, no matter how complicated, we can still proactively respond. Download Lieutenant General Doan Thai Duc, Director of the Rescue Department, General Staff, Chief of Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, spoke at the meeting - Photo: VGP/Gia HuyPromoting social resources and the motto 4 on the spot At the meeting, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Hoang Hiep said that through actual implementation, the problem of the current information and reporting mechanism is still overlapping. This lack of consistency leads to sometimes untimely data compilation and puts pressure on the grassroots level. According to the Deputy Minister,From the
