The Information Office of Beijing Municipal People's Government held a press conference Thursday to introduce the city's seismic retrofit programs to make sure buildings meet earthquake safety requirements. 

To date, Beijing has implemented the safety renovation program for buildings in primary and secondary schools across the city, involving 4,372 buildings in 1,290 schools. The city has completed the reconstruction of supporting facilities for fire prevention, flood control, and lightning protection, and completed the relocation of schools in areas prone to geological disasters. All the buildings in the city's primary and secondary schools have met the requirements for seismic design.

The city has also pressed ahead with the renovation program to spruce up aged residential communities. By the end of 2015, 4.88 million square meters of floor space of old residential buildings had been retrofitted to become quake-proof, and a new round of reinforcement work is underway. A total of 370,000 rural houses have been renovated for earthquake resistance and energy conservation, accounting for 80-85% of the total. 

The authorities have defined the seismic standards for buildings in Beijing's sub-center and major projects such as the Beijing Daxing International Airport. Seismic isolation technologies will be applied to those structures. 

In addition, Beijing has also explored new technologies and theories for supporting engineering resilience, developed monitoring technologies for building structures, and carried out research on weak links and risk monitoring and assessment for buildings. 

The press conference was jointly held by the Beijing Earthquake Agency, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Beijing Emergency Management Bureau.

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