中国抗灾救灾协会是在政府主管部门指导下,第一个联络国内外民间力量,以帮助遭灾地区的群众提高自救能力为宗旨,给灾民办好事办实事的社会团体。以往几十年,中国抗灾救灾的各项事务,均由政府部门直接办理。这与当时的产品经济基础和计划管理的经济体制是完全适应的,但也是政府抗灾救灾部门机构庞大,任务重叠,头绪繁多、工作繁忙的一个重要原因。到1987年部分有关部门的志士仁人,在改革开放的浪 China Association for Disaster Relief and Disaster Relief is the first social organization to contact non-governmental forces both at home and abroad under the guidance of government departments in order to help the people in the disaster-hit areas to improve their self-help capacity and to do something good for the victims. In the past few decades, various tasks in China’s disaster relief work have been handled directly by government departments. This was completely compatible with the economic system underpinned by the product economy and planned management at the time, but it was also an important reason why the government departments for disaster relief and disaster relief had a large number of agencies, overlapping tasks, a long list of tasks and a busy schedule. By 1987 some of the relevant departments of Cheshirenren, waves of reform and opening up