Guangdong province's emergency management system has proved helpful in efforts to deal with various natural disasters, epidemics, cases of river pollution, mass incidents and worker suicides in the past five years.

The province has established systems pertaining to emergency management, forecasting, training, information transmission, regional cooperation and social organizations, Luo Ou, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, said on Monday.

China will observe its Disaster Prevention and Reduction Day on Saturday.

About 205,000 emergency plans have been compiled in the past five years, relating to authorities at all levels and to schools, enterprises and large activities. And 69,000 drills have been organized, Luo said.

A regulation about releases of emergency alerts, the first of its kind in the country, went into effect in 2008, and a provincial emergency weather TV channel was started last year.

Jinan University established a college of emergency management in 2009.

A think tank was also set up and a cooperation agreement formed with the China Earthquake Administration and China Meteorological Administration, among other organizations, to improve the use of technological power in managing emergencies.

Provincial authorities have called for more cooperation with the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and signed emergency management agreements with them both in 2008.

The government plans to build an emergency simulation center in Zhuhai, a city Guangdong. It will be the third of its kind in Asia following ones in Japan and Taiwan.

It is also seeking to start a rural emergency-broadcasting network, said Ji Jiaqi, director of the provincial government's emergency management office.

Ji's office will start a micro blog account on Tuesday, he said.