National Fire and Rescue Administration

National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) is the state emergency service force for firefighting and rescue in China, which is part of the civil service and is administered by the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM).

National Fire and Rescue Administration

国家消防救援局
Operational area
Country	China
Agency overview
Established	October 10, 2018
Commissioner	Minister of Emergency Management
Fire chief	Wang Yupu Fire and rescue commissioner
Website
119.gov.cn

The China Fire and Rescue is divided into two departments: Fire and Rescue and Forest Firefighters. Its predecessors were the China Fire Services [zh] and People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh]. The Fire and Rescue Department of MEM and the forestry fire department of MEM are the leading and commanding organs of the fire and rescue force and the forestry fire force respectively.^[1][2] China Fire and Rescue Force is responsible for preventing and resolving major safety risks, dealing with all kinds of disasters and accidents, and undertaking relevant functions of national fire prevention and emergency rescue due to law.^[3]

History

On March 17, 2018, the first meeting of the 13th National People's Congress adopted The Decision of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress on the Institutional Reform Program of the State Council, approving The Institutional Reform Program of the State Council. The program provides that "the Ministry of Emergency Management is formed. The duty of the State Administration of Work Safety, the emergency management duty of the General Office of the State Council, the fire management duty of the Ministry of Public Security, the disaster relief duty of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the geological disaster prevention and control duty of the Ministry of Land and Resources, the water and drought prevention and control duty of the Ministry of Water Resources, the grassland fire prevention duty of the Ministry of Agriculture, the forest fire prevention-related duty of the State Forestry Administration, the earthquake emergency rescue duty of the China Earthquake Administration and the general headquarters of the National Flood and Drought Control, the National Disaster Reduction Committee, the State Council earthquake relief command, the National Forest Fire Prevention Command, the integration of duty to form the Ministry of Emergency Management, as the State Council departments. The China Earthquake Administration and the National Coal Mine Safety Supervision Department are managed by the Ministry of Emergency Management. After the conversion of public security fire forces, armed police forestry troops, and safety production, and other emergency rescue teams together as a comprehensive standing emergency force, managed by the Ministry of Emergency Management. No longer retain the State Administration of Work Safety^[4][5][6]."

The National Fire and Rescue administration was officially established on October 10, 2018.^[7]

On November 9, the Great Hall of the people held a national comprehensive fire rescue team flag ceremony. Wang Huning, member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee, Secretary of the Central Secretariat, read The Decision of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council on the award of the flag to the national comprehensive fire rescue force - China Fire and Rescue Force. Xi Jinping, the Central Committee General Secretary of CPC, President of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, handed the flag of China Fire and Rescue Force to the secretary of the Party in MEM, vice minister, Fire and rescue commissioner Huang Ming.^[8][9]

Duty

Emblem of China Fire and Rescue Force during the transition

As per articles 37, 38, and 42 of "The Fire Control Law of the People's Republic of China", the national comprehensive fire rescue team and full-time fire brigade shall undertake the following duties:

1. The national comprehensive fire and rescue team and full-time fire brigade shall, in accordance with the provisions of the state, undertake major disasters and accidents and other emergency rescue work focusing on saving the lives of personnel.
2. The national comprehensive fire and rescue team and full-time fire brigade shall give full play to the backbone role of fire fighting and emergency rescue professional force, organize and implement professional skill training, equip and maintain equipment and equipment, and improve the ability of fire fighting and emergency rescue in accordance with national regulations.
3. The fire rescue organization shall provide professional guidance to the full-time fire brigade, voluntary fire brigade, and other fire control organizations; according to the needs of fire fighting, it may mobilize and direct the full-time fire brigade to participate in the fire fighting work.

Organization

Fire and rescue departments

According to the organization's establishment plan of fire and rescue contingents headquarters, there are 34 units under the Fire and Rescue Department of MEM (including 31 provincial fire and rescue departments and 3 training contingents). The specific composition is as follows:^{[10][11][12][13]}

• Beijing Fire and Rescue
• Shanghai Fire and Rescue
• Tianjin Fire and Rescue
• Chongqing Fire and Rescue
• Hebei Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Shanxi Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Jilin Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Liaoning Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Heilongjiang Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Shaanxi Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Gansu Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Qinghai Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Shandong Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Fujian Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Zhejiang Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Henan Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Hubei Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Hunan Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Jiangxi Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Jiangsu Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Anhui Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Guangdong Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Hainan Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Sichuan Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Guizhou Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Yunnan Provincial Fire and Rescue Department
• Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Fire and Rescue Department
• Xinjiang Autonomous Region Fire and Rescue Department
• Ningxia Autonomous Region Fire and Rescue Department
• Guangxi Autonomous Region Fire and Rescue Department
• Tibet Autonomous Region Fire and Rescue Department
• China Fire and Rescue Tianjin Training Corps
• China Fire and Rescue Nanjing Training Corps
• China Fire and Rescue Kunming Training Corps

Forestry fire contingents

There are 9 units under the Forest Fire Bureau of emergency management department (including 9 provincial forest fire Departments), and the specific composition is as follows:^{[10][14][15][16][17][11]}

• Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Forest Fire Department
• Jilin Provincial Forest Fire Department
• Heilongjiang Provincial Forest Fire Department
• Fujian Provincial Forest Fire Department
• Sichuan Provincial Forest Fire Department
• Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Department
• Tibet Autonomous Region Forest Fire Department
• Gansu Provincial Forest Fire Department
• Xinjiang Autonomous Region Forest Fire Departemnt

Additionally, there is the National Fire and Rescue Administration Mobile Detachment [zh], the National Fire and Rescue Administration Daqing Aerial Rescue Detachment [zh] and National Fire and Rescue Administration Kunming Aerial Rescue Detachment [zh]. They operate Z-8 helicopters.^[18][19][20]

Academies

• China Fire and Rescue Institute [zh]

Others

Rank and uniform

Commissioner	Deputy commissioner	Assistant commissioner	Commanders				Battalion chiefs
Director general 总监	Deputy Director General 副总监	Assistant Director General 助理总监	Senior Commander 高级指挥长	Commander 1st Class 一级指挥长	Commander 2nd Class 二级指挥长	Commander 3rd Class 三级指挥长	Battalion Chief 1st Class 一级指挥员	Battalion Chief 2nd Class 二级指挥员	Battalion Chief 3rd Class 三级指挥员	Battalion Chief 4th Class 四级指挥员

Senior firefighters			Intermediate firefighters		Junior firefighters
Captain 1st Class 一级消防长	Captain 2nd Class 二级消防长	Captain 3rd Class 三级消防长	Firefighter 1st Class 一级消防士	Firefighter 2nd Class 二级消防士	Firefighter 3rd Class 三级消防士	Firefighter 4th Class 四级消防士	Probationary firefighter     预备消防士

Plate and painting

The sample number plate of the national comprehensive fire and rescue vehicle

Building of Fire Department of Ministry of Public Security.

A Dongfeng Citroën C-Triomphe command vehicle Chaozhou City

A Spartan fire truck with type 2018 plates, Dongcheng District Fire and Rescue Department, Beijing City

Type 2018 firefighting PPE

Isuze FVR fire engine of Yingbin Road Fire Station in Zhengzhou in 2023

The front part of the professional fire rescue vehicle body is painted with the words "RESCUE", the side of the vehicle body is painted with the words "China Fire and Rescue Force", "FIRE" and the name and vehicle number of the affiliated unit, the roof is painted with the vehicle number, and the decorative strips are painted on both sides of the vehicle body and the rear of the vehicle.^[21]

See also

• Ministry of Emergency Management
• People's Armed Police
• National Fire Agency