National Fire and Rescue Administration (; NFRA), is an agency under the Ministry of Emergency Management which oversees the China Fire and Rescue, China's firefighter force.
History On January 6, 2023, the NFRA was founded by merging the Ministry of Emergency Management's and .
Organization
Fire and rescue departments Before the institutional reform, the fire-fighting force primarily consisted of the , along with volunteer fire departments operated by local governments and enterprises. The Public Security Fire Brigade served as the core force and operated under the leadership of public security authorities. Its management system combined both sectoral and hierarchical oversight, and it was classified within the armed police structure.
Each province and city has a fire and rescue department, while county level subdivisions have a fire battalion.
Following the Framework Programme for the Formation of the National Comprehensive Fire and Rescue Corps, the new structure designates fire and rescue headquarters at the provincial level, fire and rescue detachments at the district level, and fire and rescue brigades at the county level. These brigades oversee fire and rescue stations (squadrons), ensuring a more structured and coordinated approach to emergency response.
There are 31 firefighting departments and 3 training corps:
Forestry fire Departments
There are 9 forest fire departments:
Additionally, the NFRA has the , the and the . They operate Z-8 helicopters.
Academies
Management NFRA manages the China Fire Museum
Agency chiefs 1st Commissar Wang Xiangxi (王祥喜) - Incumbent, 2023–Present
Fire Chief (周天) - Incumbent, 2024–Present (琼色, ཆིང་སེ།) - 2023–2024
Political Commissar (李良生) - Incumbent, 2025–Present (郝军辉) - 2024–2025 (徐平) - 2023–2024
See also People's Armed Police National Fire Agency
References
External links
Official website