The experiences and lessons from the evacuation and refuge after earthquakes indicate that the park of city is an important evacuee shelter. The disaster prevention park has the strongest function of disaster mitigation among the city parks. It can improve the parks′ synthetical disaster prevention and mitigation function through reforming existing city parks to be disaster prevention parks or building new ones. This kind of park could be used as emergent refuge when the city incurs accidental disaster

which becomes an effective countermeasure to resist the disaster. The disaster prevention park not only provides a refuge for people

but also guarantees the basic living conditions for refugee. It has many functions

such as disaster prevention and mitigation

informative collection and transfer

medical and rescue

transport base etc. The main measure to strengthen disaster prevention parks′ disaster mitigation function is to adopt widely high-tech and implement the scientific management of the system of disaster prevention parks.