It is possible for everyone to meet emergency. For a foreign in China, you should know the emergency number and how to dial them.
After putting through 110, you will firstly hear such a prompt in both Chinese and English: "Hello, here is 110 alarm service", then an operator will hear your case. Please answer the questions according to the requirements of the operator, such as your name, position and contact ways and so on as well as the basic information of the case alarmed. Generally, you should remain at the position where you give the alarm to wait for policemen and contact with them as soon as they arrive. Please keep the site untouched so that the policemen can acquire evidences at the site. If you put through 110 by mistake, please hang up immediately.
110 is for alarm service, while 119 is for fire alarm and 122 for traffic accidents report. These three 24-hour calls are all the organs under the municipal bureau that receive the alarms given by the public. As the windows of the capital public security organ, they are open to the whole society to provide services to the public. These three calls have respective focuses. When the public's life, property, etc. are threatened, or there occurs some urgent and sudden event that the public is unable to settle, you may call 110 to give an alarm and seek help. If someplace is caught fire, you should call 119, and if some traffic accident happens, you should call 122, so that the public security organ will assign special personnel to the site in time.
