However, based on the experience from the past, the year following El Nino event, southern China is particularly vulnerable to waterlogging while northern China is susceptible to cold events. As such, this year China might face severe weather-related disaster.

Therefore, ANBOUND Consulting suggests that in order to prevent the weather-related disaster from becoming a new source of pressure on the economic and social development in China, both the central government and the local governments should allocate more monies to their disaster relief fund, improve the administration and the management of the disaster-relief materials and establish an effective mechanism to forecast and communicate the weather-related disasters.