Xi calls for boosting disaster prevention efforts

President Xi Jinping called for improving the country’s ability to prevent, mitigate and respond to natural disasters, after a string of deadly floods and landslides this summer.

Xi’s remarks, published on Saturday in Qiushi, a journal central to Communist Party messaging, follow China’s strongest typhoon this year and a series of landslides that killed dozens, underscoring the growing toll of extreme weather on the world’s second-largest economy.