Is the emergency number 999 or 120?

Beijing 120 and 999 are emergency numbers. The service objects and methods of these two emergency telephones are exactly the same, and the only difference is the different affiliation between the two parties.

999 belongs to Beijing Red Cross Society, and the expense list issued by it is entitled "Detailed List of Emergency Expenses of Beijing Red Cross Emergency Rescue Center". 120 in Beijing, that is, Beijing Emergency Center, is a medical rescue institution directly under the Beijing Municipal Health Planning Commission.

"999" emergency organization and "120" coexist. And carry out pre-hospital treatment services.

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Related news: Beijing will gradually merge and use "120".

On the morning of April 12, the Standing Committee of Beijing Municipal People's Congress held a kick-off meeting on the proposal of "improving the pre-hospital medical emergency service system and improving the ability and level of emergency service". It was announced at the meeting that Beijing will steadily promote the integration of 120 and 999 emergency systems, realize unified command and dispatch, and gradually realize the unification of emergency call numbers as "120".

According to public information, the Beijing Emergency Center was officially completed on March 25th, and 1988, 120 opened a call for help. With the increasing gap in the emergency market, with the approval of the former General Administration of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the China Red Cross Society, the 999 emergency center came into being on 200 1, and the 999 emergency hotline was opened at the same time.

It will take 3-5 years for Beijing to steadily promote the integration of 120 and 999 emergency systems, realize unified command and dispatch, and gradually realize the unification of emergency call numbers to 120. The "999" number used by the Municipal Red Cross Emergency Rescue Center has gradually become a call sign for non-emergency rescue and aviation medical rescue.

People's Health Network-Beijing will gradually merge and use "120" uniformly.