Currently, the annual number of deaths from traffic accidents in China approximates 86,000 persons.
Shanghai is one of the biggest cities in the world.
It contains a population of 13,000,000. Statistics from the past five years indicate that the traffic accidents exceed the past records by 60,000 cases with an average of two persons killed daily. The number of persons wounded by traffic accidents and disaster was 26,681 persons with 318 persons found dead before hospitalization. All patients who have sustained severe injuries due to trauma should be transported to an identified hospital in Shanghai. Every central hospital in Shanghai is setting up Resuscitation Department so as to receive massive numbers of critically wounded casualties in accordance with the condition of the disaster.