Situation of website construction by government emergency management offices at different levels in China

Objective To analyze the situation of website construction by government emergency management offices at different levels for strengthening the construction of website and emergency education among the public.Methods Totally 364 websites of local government emergency management offices at province and municipality level were investigated by using network content analysis method.Results There were only 15.90% of local goverment emergency management offices having their websites for emergency among 364 government websites.Guangdong province had the highest ratio(73%) of separate emergency affairs website for municipal government website.For the website construction of health emergency column, Beijing was the best, followed by Shanghai among the 4 municipalites directly under the central govermnent.Among the 27 provinces, Guangdong, Xinjiang, and Zhejiang ranked the top three.Among the websites inversigated, 64% established the column for emergency management, 65.8% had the column for law and regulation plan for emergency, and 58.4% had the column for erergency education.The regional rank for the emergencty website construction based on the graded score was the Eastern, the Northeast, the Central, and the Western Region from high to low.Conclusion The study investigated 364 websites of local government offiecs emergency management, and provided suggestions for strengthening the construction of public emergency response capacity.