Recently, various regions have focused on the needs of disaster prevention and shelter, accelerated the construction and upgrading of community safe houses, strictly followed national standards such as the "Classification and Categorization of Emergency Shelter Sites", integrated functions such as emergency material reserve and emergency response, and become important infrastructure for protecting the safety of people's lives and property. Relevant construction cases have been implemented and effective in many provinces and cities.
According to public information from government departments in various regions and reports from authoritative media, most community safe houses are located in open areas of communities or on the ground floors of buildings, equipped with emergency supplies such as fire extinguishers, first-aid kits and flood control sandbags. Some also add emergency ventilation, lighting and communication equipment, which can effectively respond to sudden disasters such as fires, earthquakes and floods, providing temporary shelter space for the masses. Many community safe houses implement a "four-in-one" warehousing model to standardize material management and regularly carry out emergency drills to improve the masses' ability of disaster prevention and shelter.
Relevant departments stated that the construction of safe houses will be gradually promoted in conjunction with the renovation of old residential communities and other work, improving signs and identification as well as on-duty systems to create a convenient emergency service circle. At present, community safe houses have been built and put into use in many places such as Nanchang and Zhuhai, effectively handling many initial emergency incidents. In the future, the coverage will be further expanded to promote the standardized development of safe houses and consolidate the grassroots guarantee for disaster prevention and shelter.
