On disaster mitigation of power distribution network

The paper introduces the disaster (or say as network fault) happened in the city of Xiamen, China at October 1999 which caused the power cut off in the whole island due to a raid of strong typhoon and the problems exposed by this disaster. Summarization the experiences about construction and retrofit of the Xiamen distribution network, the problems of the distribution network against the disaster was discussed to improving the abilities to preventing the widely power off in a city.