15 September 2014
China will work more closely with other nations to better use its assets in outer space to manage disasters, Pang Chenmin, Director of the National Disaster Reduction Center, said on Monday at the opening of the three-day United Nations International Conference on Space-Based Technologies for Disaster Management, in Beijing. The conference, the fourth to be held since 2011, is organised by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs. It is being attended by government officials and experts from 34 nations, 14 international and regional organisations and 13 research institutes.
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