Shantanu Mitra (R), senior economic adviser of the UK Department for International Development, views the hazard map at Zhongdong Village, a demonstration zone of the Sharing and Learning on Community-based Disaster Management in Asia Project, in Mangshi City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 27, 2014. The Chinese public should be more involved in community-based disaster prevention and relief, said Yang Fang, assistant country director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) China, during an ongoing three-day forum on community-based disaster management in Mangshi City. The forum, Community-based Disaster Management Best Practice Sharing Workshop in Asia, was attended by 66 community representatives from China, Bangladesh and Nepal. (Xinhua/Wu Kaixiang)
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